small preview embedded in webpage

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EarthwormJim

Hi

Problem:

I would like to embed/place powerpoint presentations in a
web page, say 225 x 170 pixels, to preview it, before
having to play at full screen mode. I would like to keep
the files as .ppt if possible.

Current Situation:

I have an existing website, which works well, that does
this using an older windows software that is not supported
any more - old version of windows media player
playing .asf/.asx files.

The site enables a user to select a category of
presentations, a table of presentations appears providing
the presentation name and brief description. The table is
linked to a database containing details of the powerpoint
files. The name of the file is a hyperlink to a details
page describing the particular presentation, again linked
to the database. The details page plays the preview on the
LHS of the web page. Right click on preview and you have
the option to play full screen. There is also a
presentaion upload form page, enabling users to upload
remotely to the database.

I can embed Windows Media Player 9 at the required
resolution but it doesn't play existing .asf files in the
new WMP 9 player. I would like to bypass the middle stage
of converting the .ppt files to .asf.

Any help or advice would be greatly appreciated and many
beer tokens will be sent.

Earthworm Jim
Weilding the Sword of Righteousness out there in the
Jungle of Justice!
 
Hello Jim,

PowerPoint does not have built in capabilities to manage or publish
collections of presentations and slides (including, for example, previews
and searchable database) in order to facilitate the reuse of existing
content. There are a variety of 3rd party tools available for performing
varieties of management, search and retrieval tasks for "digital assets"
including the kinds of assets created and used by PowerPoint (slides,
presentations, movies, pictures, etc.). They range all the way from
products which focus specifically on PowerPoint assets to enterprise wide
solutions for managing all kinds of digital assets.

Some of them include (in no particular order of preference and without any
implied recommendation):

* Presentation Librarian - Accent Technologies
* PowerSearch - Accent Technologies
* Cumulus Office Suite - Canto
* Teams - Artesia

And most of the growing number of 3rd party solutions for capturing and
archiving recorded presentation 'casts include server-side tools for
mangement (search, access control, retrieval, etc.)

If you (or anyone else reading this message) feel strongly that PowerPoint
should include some features for managing and publishing presentations and
presentation content for easy retrieval and reuse, don't forget to send
your feedback to Microsoft at:

http://register.microsoft.com/mswish/suggestion.asp

As with all product suggestions, it's important that you not just state
your wish but also why it is important to you that your product suggestion
be implemented by Microsoft. Microsoft receives thousands of product
suggestions every day and we read each one but, in any given product
development cycle, there are only sufficient resources to address the ones
that are most important to our customers so take the extra time to state
your case as clearly and completely as possible.

IMPORTANT: Each submission should be a single suggestion (not a list of
suggestions).

John Langhans

Supportability Program Manager
Microsoft Office PowerPoint for Windows
Microsoft Office Picture Manager for Windows

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