ofteda881@snake.cs.uidaho.edu (05/04/91)
Netlanders... I own and use Microsoft PowerPoint 2.0 and have been very happy with it. Until recently, my only requirements have been to produce overheads for presentations. However, I now have an opportunity to give a presentation using color slides. Un- fortunately, I found out last night that if you wish to produce these color slides, you must send them to Genigraphics at a modest $12.00/slide fee or just view them on your screen! Since I am only a student, and do not wish to send my rent money to some company to produce a hand full of slides and have therefore come upon a problem. The only formats that PowerPoint save in is PPT and the Genigraphics extension. My question is as follows: Has any aspiring programmer written a driver that can transform a PPT file into scodl (?) format, or some other more common format that a media center might be able to use. Our media center is able to translate a very large number of different formats, however, when you mention PowerPoint and PPT they are not able to offer any assistance. Better yet, has anyone found a way around this by capturing the file and saving it into a different format? I'm curious if other users have come across this problem. Any suggestions? Chad Oftedal University of Idaho, CS Student