indesign-powerpoint

[nicoedouard]

hello, i'm a french graphist and i wanted to know if it's possible to export an indesign document to power point?
thank you very much..

[Bob Levine]

Not directly. You can create a PDF, open the PDF in Photoshop and then
save as JPG. You can place the JPG file in Powerpoint.

If you want to edit it in Powerpoint, you'll have to copy and paste the
text and place the graphics.

Bob

[Jens Schulze]

"nicoedouard" wrote:

> hello, i'm a french graphist and i wanted to know if it's possible to
> export an indesign document to power point?

Of course not directly, you can either do screenshots in the ID preview mode
and place them in Powerpoint or export to PDF and then export to JPEG with
Acrobat 5 or later and place theses pictures... as far as I know Powerpoint
isn't able to import PDFs directly.

Jens

[Guy Smiley]

The best workflow for non-editable importing is to export from InDesign as EPS. This creates a separate EPS for each page of the InDesign document. Then use a batch sequence in Photoshop to rasterize each EPS into a TIFF, each of which can then be imported into Powerpoint. If you have text and/or vector paths in your InDesign document, then make sure that you rasterize with anti-aliasing turned on.

Note that Acrobat 5 is incapable of anti-aliasing if you open a PDF and then "Save as" a TIFF or JPEG. I'm not sure whether Acrobat 6 is different in this regard.

[John Mensinger]

Just a few side notes: When saving your rasterized pages for import to PowerPoint, try the PNG format, especially if the images will be embedded in your PowerPoint file.

I've foung PNG to be the most MS-Office-friendly of the raster formats. Transparency is even supported, and file sizes are compact. Powerpoint won't like anything CMYK, especially JPEG's.

[Guy Smiley]

"Print to Acrobat PDF file and then use Acrobat 6 to implement transitions and timing for each page (just like PowerPoint)."

I use InDesign and Acrobat for all of my presentations in exactly this fashion. I don't know about the OP, but the reason I know so much about generating a Powerpoint presentation out of a PDF presentation is that one conference I attended required all presenters to use Powerpoint.

This was actually very hilarious. The organizers thought they would be decreasing the likelihood of problems by requiring all presenters to provide their Powerpoint presentations on CD-ROMs. The presentations were then all loaded onto a single Windows-based laptop that was attached to the projector.

Well, lets just say that Powerpoint is not exactly a "platform-independent" or "portable" file type. Presentations prepared using Mac Powerpoint almost invariably had severe difficulties, including complete inability to display text, images, or both. Presentations prepared using Windows Powerpoint had a higher success rate, although there were frequent font problems in cases where typefaces other than Comic Sans, Arial, or Times Roman were used.

And we all know how bad Powerpoint is at the two most important things for a professional-looking presentation--anti-aliasing and setting type. The kerning in Powerpoint looks like it was intended to simulate "drunken typesetting".

Because each slide of my Powerpoint contained nothing other than a single TIFF version of each page of a PDF exported from InDesign--rasterized with anti-aliasing using Photoshop--my presentation looked beautiful. Afterwards, people asked me how I generated such a professional-looking presentation, but I kept the secret!