2009年7月29日星期三

How to convert PowerPoint to Flash with Adobe Flash CS4

"Convert PowerPoint to Flash" has been the hot topic
on Internet. Put this phrase into Google or Bing, you can
easily get a huge number of web links there. Comparing
with PowerPoint, Flash has more advantages for circulating
presentation online or offline. Flash can be played
directly on every computer and Internet, while PowerPoint
has many limitations; Flash can only be played and hardly
to be edited by others; the size of the converted Flash
presentation can be reduced to almost 80%.


So we know "Convert PowerPoint to Flash" is
a trend, but how to do that? Should you we do it with
PowerPoint? So far Microsoft hasn't added this function in
it. How about doing it with Adobe Flash? If you have the
time and if you are familiar with Adobe Flash – then it
can be one of your choices! Today let’s see how
to convert PowerPoint to Flash with Adobe Flash
CS4
.


First, save the PowerPoint presentation as WMF
files
, it applies to PowerPoint 2007.


1. Open your presentation in PowerPoint, click the
Office button-> Save As-> Other Formats, then Save
As dialog box appears, choose Windows Metafile (*.WMF) in
the Save as type drop-down list, and click Save.


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Notes: WMF is a vector format, and Flash accepts all
vector formats. These WMF files can be resized without
losing their resolution.


2. A message window appears asking if you want to
export every slide or just the current slide, click the
Every Slide button. Then another massage window states the
folder where the WMF slides have been saved.



Secondly, import these WMF slides to Adobe
Flash CS4
.


1. Open Adobe Flash CS4, create a new Flash document.
Please select Action Script 2.0.


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2. Now choose File-> Import-> Import to
Stage.


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3. Then the Import dialog box appears; select the
folder where the WMF files were saved, and click the
first file. Click Open.


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4. There will be a message asking if you want to
import the entire sequence, click Yes.


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5. Then the files are imported to Adobe Flash CS4, go
to File-> save-> save as the Flash (.FLA) file.


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6. Go to Modify -> Ungroup.


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Notes: The ungroup option converts all PowerPoint
slide objects as individual components in Flash that can
be animated using native Flash options.


Thirdly, export the Flash file as an SWF file
from Adobe Flash CS4
.


Notes: Before exporting the Flash FLA file to a SWF
file, make sure that the WMF file dimension and the Flash
movies dimensions are the same.


1. Click on any of the imported images, then click
Properties panel, you can see the dimension of this
image.


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2. Click the Modify -> Document, then Document
Properties dialog box appears; change the dimensions to
match those of the imported WMF files, and at the same
time do remember change the Frame rate to .25 fps. Then
click OK.


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3. From the File menu, choose Export-> Export
Movie.


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4. Choose the output folder, and then click OK to
export.


Then you can get the SWF files, the PowerPoint
presentation is converted to Flash.


Pay Attention:


In this way you can only convert the whole
presentation to the static images or bitmaps, all
settings of timing, transition and animation cannot be
saved. If the presentation contain some multi-media
elements, such as music or video, it is obvious that all
of them will become just static images or disappeared.


If you think this tutorial is so complicate and
verbose that you don’t spend time on it, and also want to
prevent dynamic design and multi-media elements in your
presentation from being converted to static/bitmap
pictures, you can try some professional converting
softwares, such as href="http:www.sameshow.com/powerpoint-to-flash-
pro.html#164">Wondeshare PPT2Flash
, Articulate
Presenter etc, all of them can as well help you
converting PowerPoint to Flash with easier steps.

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