PowerPoint - Making from .gifs or .pdfs

nmerriweather has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Based on previous discussions here, and google, I dont think I'm gonna be lucky with this.. but I might as well ask. Has anyone been able to create PowerPoint documents using .gif files or .pdf files as slides? PerlPoint and other unix/opensource things aren't an option - if the end-user were me, they would be. I'm looking to automate PowerPoint creation for one of my ArtDirectors when he gets shafted with making layouts for clients who want to discuss them over a PowerPoint presenation. any help would be greatly appreciated.

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Re: PowerPoint - Making from .gifs or .pdfs by BrowserUk (Patriarch) on May 02, 2003 at 22:38 UTC
I haven't used PP for 5 or more years, but does it allow you to use hypertext links to external files? I seem to remember someone doing something similar by creating the first slide as an index with each item a clickable link that used `file://localhost/c:/slide1.gif` etc. and stepped through it that way, but maybe my l'il grey cells are playing tricks on me again. Examine what is said, not who speaks. 1) When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong. 2) The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible 3) Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. Arthur C. Clarke.	[reply] [d/l]
Re: PowerPoint - Making from .gifs or .pdfs by crenz (Priest) on May 03, 2003 at 07:33 UTC
You could also try to automate PowerPoint using OLE or COM. Never did that myself, though, so I can't give you any pointers. Super Searching should find a few nodes, though.	[reply]
(jeffa) Re: PowerPoint - Making from .gifs or .pdfs by jeffa (Bishop) on May 03, 2003 at 13:19 UTC
perl can create Office files from Windows may be of use to you. jeffa L-LL-L--L-LL-L--L-LL-L-- -R--R-RR-R--R-RR-R--R-RR B--B--B--B--B--B--B--B-- H---H---H---H---H---H--- (the triplet paradiddle with high-hat)	[reply]