Broken PowerPoint Equation Editor Import

[Sasha_Baych]

I am trying to import .ppt presentation into Captivate 7.

The presentation contains a lot of equasions made with equation_editor built into MS PowerPoint.

Th slides inside PPT look about like this:

This is what I get after import into Captivate:

I know that I can just export slides as images from PPT and put them into Captivate. But this is not what I need.

Any sugestions on how to fix this campatibility issue?

Thanks a lot in advance.

[Lilybiri]

Why not using the maths editor in Captivate?

[Sasha_Baych]

I know about the math editor.

But I'm a designer, not a phisicist. It is not my presentation. I am simply making a Captivate course for a professor.

BESIDES. One of the claimed advantages of Captivate is the ability to transfer slides directly from PPT into Captivate. I would rather prefer to have this feature working instead of spending time on learning how to use maths editor in Captivate and transferring all the equations (there is a lot of them in each slide) without omissions and mistakes.

[Lilybiri]

Did you check High Fidelity when importing? That is the only other advice I can give. 

Sorry, but I have mentioned a lot of times on this forum that Captivate is not a PPT-transformer but an authoring tool. Why don't you use a plug-in for Powerpoint like one of the Presenters (iSpring, Articulate, Adobe)?

And making it into an image is another workaround. But you don't want that.

[Captiv8r]

Hi there

As you are seeing first hand, converting from PPT to Captivate sometimes doesn't achieve the result you want. Captivate converts each PPT slide to a Flash SWF file that becomes the background "image" of the Captivate slide.

One way to maintain exact fidelity is to take what I call "The Camtasia Approach". Just play the PPT and use Captivate to capture the PPT as it plays. The end result should be exactly what you see in PPT.

Cheers... Rick