What won't PPT2HTML convert?

PPT2HTML doesn't convert several general classes of PPT features:

• Stuff that would require it to write huge amounts of browser-incompatible HTML.
• Animations
• Multiple Masters from PPT 2002
  We're working on that one, but it may simply not be possible to deal with them properly in earlier versions of PowerPoint because those versions themselves don't fully support multiple masters.
• Stuff it's never occurred to us to convert because nobody's asked for it.

"Because nobody's asked for it."

That's a hint. We've added dozens of new features to PPT2HTML because a PPT2HTML customer asked us to.

For example, because customers asked for it, we added:

• The ability to convert PowerPoint's slide transitions into MSIE transitions; you simply have to add a line or two of HTML to your templates and PPT2HTML takes care of the rest. See Slide transition effects to learn how.
• Extensive formatting control over the times and dates reported by the time and date placeholders.
• The ability to tell PPT2HTML to create images only, no HTML files at all
• The ability to make external http: links open in the current window, in a single additional window, or in a new window for each link, your choice.
• The ability to have PPT2HTML map certain characters like ampersands to the equivalent html entity; the ability to create and use custom mapping tables so you can map characters any way you like
• Support for embedded Flash movies
• Dozens of other features, large and small

If you have a way of coding a feature into your templates and need to use specific info from your presentation to do it, talk to us. Make a reasonable case for a new placeholder, show us an example template that illustrates what you have in mind. We'll make every effort to accommodate you.

Basically, if PowerPoint will tell us what your template needs to know, we'll help you work out a way of getting the info.

Last updated 6/27/2003 10:35:01 AM

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