animation effects in slides

[Gabo]

Hello,

I understand that the animation effects will not convert in BBB
due to the slides to be converted to pdf before those are displayed in
the bbb client environment. My questions are the following:

- Is there a plugin or a software I could use to convert the slides
to .swf or something in orther for the animation effects to be used in
the bbb client?

- if I would need to do code changes what would you recommend.

I'm working on a platform for Doctors, and the users belive that no
animation effects might make them look "amateurish". This is why I
wanted to see if I could include this functionality in the bbb client.

Thanks in advance for any help you might give me.

[Fred Dixon]

Hi Gabo,

I found a few such utilities by Googling the search terms

powerpoint animation .swf

However, incorporating some of these utilities (some are free, some
are commercial) into BigBlueButton's slide conversion system would
take deep understanding of how the current conversion process works.
see

https://github.com/bigbluebutton/bigbluebutton/tree/master/bigbluebutton-web/src/java/org/bigbluebutton/presentation

In a nutshell, the current process converts powerpoint into PDF, then
bursts the PDF into individual PDF files, then converts each PDF file
to a .swf file.

You will need to create a parallel process that ends with a .swf file
for each powerpoint slide (albiet this time with animations).


Regards,... Fred
--
http://code.google.com/p/bigbluebutton/wiki/FAQ#BigBlueButton_Committer

[Gabo]

Thanks a lot for this information Fred.
I'll look into it and let you know what I did.

On Oct 23, 6:07 am, Fred Dixon <ffdi...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Gabo,
>
> I found a few such utilities by Googling the search terms
>
>    powerpoint animation .swf
>
> However, incorporating some of these utilities (some are free, some
> are commercial) into BigBlueButton's slide conversion system would
> take deep understanding of how the current conversion process works.
> see
>

>  https://github.com/bigbluebutton/bigbluebutton/tree/master/bigbluebut...

>
> In a nutshell, the current process converts powerpoint into PDF, then
> bursts the PDF into individual PDF files, then converts each PDF file
> to a .swf file.
>
> You will need to create a parallel process that ends with a .swf file
> for each powerpoint slide (albiet this time with animations).
>
> Regards,... Fred

> --http://code.google.com/p/bigbluebutton/wiki/FAQ#BigBlueButton_Committer