Making an autorun Powerpoint presentation for the mac?

[marcasii]

Hi Does anyone know where I can get some info on making a Powerpoint presentation autorun on a Mac. Ona PC it is fine I use PowerLink Pro 2.0, but I haven't found anythng for the Mac.

 

[kylebellamy]

Not sure about powerpoint but most people use Keynote as the presentation software for Macs. Just as effective and a lot more interesting things you can do. Plus it outputs Quicktime files so they can be played w/stops at appropriate points.

The movie quality gives you better transitions with easier and smaller files.

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[jimoblak]

I'm lost. Why do you need PowerLink Pro 2 for making autorun PowerPoint slide shows? Can't you simply save from PowerPoint as a PPS file?

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[kylebellamy]

It won't work in a Mac/UNIX environment either way and I think that's what he's looking for. Besides, if you provide the slideshow on a CD business card for instance, you have to give the viewer the ability to watch the show on their system without the need to have Power Point. Hence, the auto player.

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[jimoblak]

Oh - I assumed every Mac user had bowed to Bill and bought PowerPoint already.

Another option is to export the PowerPoint as HTML. You can drop in a meta refresh tag to have the show auto advance through the different HTML pages. This would be the most cross-platform-compatible solution that does not require anything more than a standard web broswer.

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[kylebellamy]

That's a great option! I didn't know that it could do that.

As for the bowing to Bill... lol I have Word because of the PC "designers" who sometimes output things in Word. Personally I think it's execs who are too cheap to pay someone who know InDesign or Quark to do it right but I can't prove anything.

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