Corel Presentations to Powerpoint conversion
Ron
Is there a converter that will convert Corel Presentation 7 files to
Powerpoint 97?
I have a disk that a previous employee left me that was done in Corel
Presentations. I need to be able to get it into Powerpoint format or I am
in for a lot of unnecessary work.
If you have a solution, please e-mail me at pat...@transport.com instead
of posting here. I don't get on to newsgroups very often.
Thank you
Ron
Steve Rindsberg
First the mandatory lecture: you're asking for help from other users like
yourself and/or voluteers who give their own time to helping with technical
problems. By saying that you can't be bothered to pop back in here to
check for answers to your questions, you're effectively telling us all that
your time is more valuable than ours.
You probably don't MEAN it that way, I know, but that's how it comes off.
Newsgroups are shared resources, brain-pools if you will. I help with your
problem, you help with mine, we all benefit. A response by email deprives
everybody else of the ability to participate in the discussion. They lose,
you lose, we all lose.
So sorry, no email consultations.
As to your question (bet you thought I'd NEVER get around to that) there's
no conversion filter from the one program to the other. Check my web site
for an essay on general strategies for solving the problem.
--
Steve Rindsberg, Prez, RDP (a slide imaging service)
Microsoft MVP, Lotus L-Team
http://www.rdpslides.com
Please direct newsgroup replies to the newgroup, where I'm a volunteer
NOT to Email, where I charge for private consultations.
Ron <pat...@transport.com> wrote in article
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Tony Cook
On 15 Mar 1998 06:00:48 GMT, "Ron" <pat...@transport.com> wrote:
>Is there a converter that will convert Corel Presentation 7 files to
>Powerpoint 97?
Funny you ask that question - I just spent a couple of days doing just
that (and no, it wasn't funny; frankly, it was/is a pain).
There is no direct converter from Presentations to PowerPoint, and if
you know the history of Presentations you'll understand why - this is
one application that is almost universally avoided by service bureaus
as it simply doesn't behave properly. I have been successful in
outputting slides from it - at least from version 3 onwards, the
earlier versions were a total disaster - but every time it's an
adventure.
In order to "convert" the presentation in question, I first dumped all
of the graphics that wouldn't translate correctly with cut and paste -
this entailed re-creating them in CorelDraw as vector objects prior to
placing in the new Ppt pressie as WMFs.
Then, I opened both presentations, set the Master slides in Ppt to the
same font specs and the background to a reasonable facsimile and then
proceeded to cut and paste the text across. Fortunately, there were no
charts - these would have needed complete re-creation in Excel (my
preference) or in Graph to be of any use in Ppt.
Quite a lot of the presentation had to be re-created in Ppt as cut and
paste simply wouldn't hack it. This meant a day and a half just to get
a 20-page presentation reworked.
Frankly, I would, in future, start from scratch.
Tony Cook, MS Powerpoint MVP
Computer Slide Express, Toronto
http://www.slide-express.ca
George Konold
"Ron" <pat...@transport.com> wrote:
>Is there a converter that will convert Corel Presentation 7 files to
>Powerpoint 97?
>I have a disk that a previous employee left me that was done in Corel
>Presentations. I need to be able to get it into Powerpoint format or I am
>in for a lot of unnecessary work.
>
>If you have a solution, please e-mail me at pat...@transport.com instead
>of posting here. I don't get on to newsgroups very often.
>
Ron,
There is no way to open the Corel Presentations file directly
with PowerPoint. The easiest way to do it is to open a PowerPoint
template that is similar and start cutting and pasting objects from
Corel to PowerPoint to recreate the show. You might be able to export
just the text from Corel and import that into PowerPoint and recreate
it from there.
My company specializes in such tedious tasks if you don't want to
do it yourself.
Thanks,
George
George Konold
KONOLD KREATIONS
The Color Slides Homepage
http://www.mindspring.com/~gekonold/colrslid.html
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Steve Rindsberg
This in the latest version of Presentations, TC?
Whenever life treats me brutally, I take a deep breath and realize it could
be much worse. In the entire time I've been in this biz. we've only had
two clients who used WPPresentations --> CorelWhatsit. Just as well ...
there wasn't much of the wall left for me to put my fist through.
--
Steve Rindsberg, Prez, RDP (a slide imaging service)
Microsoft MVP, Lotus L-Team
http://www.rdpslides.com
Please direct newsgroup replies to the newgroup, where I'm a volunteer
NOT to Email, where I charge for private consultations.
Tony Cook <to...@slide-express.ca> wrote in article
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> On 15 Mar 1998 06:00:48 GMT, "Ron" <pat...@transport.com> wrote:
>
> >Is there a converter that will convert Corel Presentation 7 files to
> >Powerpoint 97?
>
>
Tony Cook
Yup. For my sins, I have both 7 and 8 loaded (on different systems)
and I see absolutely no improvement in the latest version. For
whatever reason, I do seem to attract a fair number of Presentations
users (legal profession, government are primary users) and there have
been a number of bundling deals here.
I don't know what Presentations does with PS output but it takes for
ever to print to file and is still producing the most humungous files
- this condition has existed since WPPres 3 days and didn't change
with the Corel take over - I guess because the product development
stayed in Orem - certainly the betas are run from there.
On Wed, 18 Mar 1998 12:37:45 -0800, "Steve Rindsberg"
<xSt...@rdpslides.com> wrote:
>This in the latest version of Presentations, TC?
Tony Cook, MS Powerpoint MVP
Steve Rindsberg
Oh well ... I suppose I'll just continue to spit on the ground (then run
very very fast) when its name is mentioned.
WP? Oh, yes we handl<mumblemumblcrackle>aving trouble hearing you, sir,
could you speakracklehisspit<CLICK>
Brad Dunzer
oh do i have stories about WP...most unstable program i have ever used. I
have had beta's of Office that had fewer problems
--
Brad Dunzer
In Focus
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