Import from Powerpoint to Captivate 1.0

As the redvic remarked, I would never have thought the Page Setup, which it says is for print setting for Power Point, would have this impact. Many thanks!!!

Hi steve10150 and welcome to our community

Perhaps an old post from one of our former Adobe Community Experts will help here. Blurry text from PowerPoint imports is a very common complaint.

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redvic 08/01/2005 03:52:22 PM

When importing PPT slides to a movie, can I stretch the slide to fit the Captivate movie frame? I see nothing in help.

In an existing movie, I import PPT slides but there is a white edge on the left & right sides of the frame.

Tommy Simmons 08/01/2005 05:56:58 PM

redvic,

It sounds like you have a slight mismatch between the aspect ratios of your Captivate movie and the PowerPoint presentation. It strikes me that you could either try 1) using "File > Page Setup" in PPT to change the aspect ratio of your PPT and then do a manual capture/import operation into Captivate of the selected slides, or else 2) if a straight manual capture would not produce a scalability problem for the slide in Captivate, you could use the PPT splitter bars to resize the thumbnail image in Normal view to whatever you need and then manually capture the slide, taking care to crop the slide top and bottom to get the aspect ratio the way you need. Hopefully someone else can suggest a more elegant solution - good luck!

redvic 08/02/2005 09:13:57 AM

Hi,

Thanks, your first suggestion worked! I did not know I could do a custom-sized PPT slide. I did File > Page Setup and chose "Custom" for Slides sized for field. Then, I specified the height and width of the slides based on the size of my existing Captivate project. For this, I had to convert pixels of the Captivate project to inches in PPT. I divided the pixels dimensions by 72 and got the approximate inches. For example, 798x546 in Captivate converted to 11.1" x 7.6" in PPT.

redvic 08/02/2005 03:57:09 PM

Hi,

A caveat to this solution: When I switched to a Custom sized PPT slide size, PowerPoint automatically adjusted the font sizes, too. For example, I increased the width of the PPT slide a little bit and my 24 pt Heading font became 26 pt. Our corporate standard is 24 pt. So, I had to go into the slides and adjust the font sizes back to the corporate standards.

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Hopefully this helps... Rick