Specifications

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Understanding Media Types

3.2.6 Presentations

Player type

Presentation

Supported formats

Notes

PPT

Microsoft Office PowerPoint presentation, from Office 2003 or

2007 only

ODP

Open Office Impress presentation

Recommendation

You can run a presentation directly on your iCOMPEL but this may consume large amounts of processing resources,

resulting in low image quality and overall poor performance. You may wish to convert large or complex presentations to an

image format, using third-party software, and display the images instead. See Converting presentations to image

formats

Add a presentation file to a Playlist

Before you can add a presentation file to a Playlist, you must upload it to the iCOMPEL. See Uploading content files for

details of how to do this.

To add a Presentation file to a Playlist, follow the steps foradding Media item files to a Playlist . After you add the

Presentation file, it appears on the Playlist. Use the Edit button to view and adjust the Presentation file properties as

necessary.

3.2.6.1 Converting presentations to other formats

You may wish to convert large or complex presentations to images to improve image quality and avoid poor performance of

your iCOMPEL. Use one of the following methods to convert your presentation:

Image slide show (if slide transitions and animation effects are not important)

Flash animation (if slide transitions and animation effects are important - creates small file)

Video (if slide transitions and animation effects are important - creates large file)

Convert to an Image Slideshow

To convert a presentation to an image slideshow follow these steps:

1. In Microsoft Office PowerPoint, select Save As.. from the File menu (the exact wording of the commands may vary

between different versions of Microsoft Office).

2. Choose an image file type supported by the iCOMPEL (PNG - recommended, TIF, JPG, or BMP)

3. When you are prompted to save every slide, confirm and save the presentation as individual slides in their own folder.

Convert to a Flash Animation

There are various third-party commercial products that can convert a Microsoft Office PowerPoint presentation to a Flash

animation with varying degrees of complexity. The free OpenOffice suite of software will open a Microsoft Office PowerPoint

presentation and allow you to export it as a Flash file but without slide transitions or animations.