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[David Moberg <davidjmoberg AT gmail.com>]

On 1/8/06, sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org> wrote:
> How to deal with powerpoint files from a lecture:
>
> >
> > I found a site of smallish ppt samples and ran doc2png and it produces 1
> > or 2 png per ppt, which are not viewable with pictview or display in DOS.
> > 'unknown filter' and 'error'.  They are both labelled ePNG IHDR (maybe by
> > doc2png?).
> > Couldn't someone display slides by making a list of them as an html file
> > and using a browser such as links?
> >
> > Sindi
>
> Or a viewer?  Can powerpoint itself export a plain zip file of images?

It can export images plus HTML.

> This particular case is just or mostly lecture slides which the professor
> probably scanned.  I will ask if there is also any non-scanned text.

One more alternative, but it requires windows: Microsoft powerpoint
viewer, which is much smaller than powerpoint itself.

David