Microsoft Producer questions

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We are producing presentations using Producer for PowerPoint 2003. We
include video but wish to know if there is the ability to add hotlinks
within the exported slides?

We would like to add functionality to the HTML templates, is this just a
case of customising the ccs template?

The information in the slides at present seems very easy to lift off of a
distributed CD, any ideas on what is the best solution to protect the
copyrighted material included in the presentation? We are looking at
creating a single executable file to do so, anything better?

Look forward to the responses. Tony
 
We are producing presentations using Producer for PowerPoint 2003. We
include video but wish to know if there is the ability to add hotlinks
within the exported slides?
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I am not sure what you are asking -- any hyperlink in the PPT presentation
will be translated and active -- assuming the location is available from
the viewing station.

http://www.coursesbywire.com/Sample...s/default.htm#autostart=1&nopreload=1&event=1

is a sample from my demo page (the last slide has hyperlinks).

Local or relative links would not but you could make even those available
with some effort. You have to move the media that is referred to the PPT
directory and modify the SCORM manifest if you are using SCORM
functionality but for a small number of files this is not too much of a
problem.

We would like to add functionality to the HTML templates, is this just a
case of customising the ccs template?
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You could add hyperlinks to the html section using the File -> Add Weblink
menu item and as you indicate you would need a template which has a visible
html section to have it functional. That would involve creating a new
template from existing ones and changing the appropriate CSS to make the
html visible (assuming the current template(s) you are using do not have
the HTML area already visible).
There is a Microsoft white paper on creating new templates
(http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...28fb-4158-8995-5f4207914cce&displaylang=en)--
Modification would require some basic knowledge of CSS.
The information in the slides at present seems very easy to lift off of a
distributed CD, any ideas on what is the best solution to protect the
copyrighted material included in the presentation?
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Since the content has to be viewable in a browser there is no mechanism
that I can think of to protect the material regardless of how it is
distributed. I would think any effort there is probably futile.

Perhaps you could include all content in a WMV stream using some other tool
than Producer and then use Windows Media DRM somehow but that is a
different kettle of fish and probably a whole new set of problems.

We are looking at
creating a single executable file to do so, anything better?
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I am not sure how that strategy is compatible with Producer. As I indicated
anything you do is probably not worth the effort.
 
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