Powerpoints from Acrobat

[GarySped]

I just upgraded to Acrobat 8 and know how to do a few things with it.

But is there a way to recreate Powerpoint presentations from a PDF file? (I did find some software on line that is supposed to do this but think it should be possible with Adobe). I made some Powerpoint presentations and wanted to send them off to a friend (much smaller files in pdf format that PowerPoint) who would need to print out the slides as handouts. After sending them as pdf's I realize he could not print out as handouts.

I tried using Acrobat to save the Powerpoint as a Microsoft file but only the slide titles came through - none of the meat of the presentation came in.

If anyone knows if Acrobat can convert PDF to PowerPoint please let me know or let me know if the software that is out there is worth looking into.

Gary.

[GarySped]

Terry White responded to me with the answer that it would require third party software to do the PDF to Powerpoint conversion. There is a trial version of such software out there but Terry also pointed out something that I now feel dumb about.

It should be possible to save the Powerpoint in Handout format as PDF (instead of slide format) and then (while reducing file size) printing the handouts that way. I'll try it and see how well it works.

Thanks to Terry for his answers.

Gary.

[The Repro Kid]

I don't know about creating PowerPoint files from Acrobat, but I do convert PowerPoint files into PDFs for the marketing folks at my work. Its pretty easy provided you're on a Mac. Just bring up the Print dialog and click on the PDF button and choose Save as PDF. Then save it.

[GarySped]

You are right. Save the PDF (Or go to Print and Select Adobe Acrobat as the Printer) but you can save as slides or as handouts (selecting 2, 3, 6 or 9 slides per page). That is what I needed and I feel really dumb in not thinking about it. Also the handout files (if done in grayscale, which they are for most presentations) are amazing small in size conmpared to a full colored Powerpoint or slide version as PDF.

[The Repro Kid]

I still don't understand where your going or what exactly you're doing, but you can keep your powerpoint slide sizes down by placing your graphics as 150 dpi RGB high quality JPGs. That's what I give to the Marketing Folks when providing them images for their presentations and this seems to be plenty of resolution. You can also keep your PDF sizes down by setting the export to resampling all images to 150 dpi RGB, automatic JPG maximum compression, crop image data to frames.

[GarySped]

I'll make a note of your latest info and work with that for the next presentations. I had been placing BMP files (as it was suggested at some point that Microsoft docs) handle that format well. I had made new ones in PShop and saved as psds then save as BMP's. My main problem is that I have something called Sensory Flavor Wheels with 100's of words on them and in multicolored sections and they need to be legible - so without me looking I suspect these are pulling the overall PWRPTs up in size.

Still, like I said, I'll consider your approach next time. Thanks for that info.

Gary.

[eugenetyson]

Just to note, on Windows.

You need to select print preview, then select the style you want the handouts, eg. 3 slides to the left with lines to write on the right.

Then make the PDF. I know the solution was given for the Mac, but hey in case anyone was wondering.

And yes you can create the Powerpoint from the PDF.

Just save the PDF as a .jpg and all the pages/slides are now .jpegs.

Reinsert them into powerpoint and you're done.

[kialua]

need to print out the slides as handouts. After sending them as pdf's I realize he could not print out as handouts.
Gary.

For a workaround I would open each slide as big as fits on the screen and take a screen shot. Then open that screen shot in Photoshop and cropp it and save it as Jpeg (make sure the mode is rgb) and use size it a little to fit the handout. Hopefully it's not hundreds of pages long.

Or see if it opens in Preview (mac) and save each page in there.

[GarySped]

Eugene, Kialua,

Thanks for the comments. Yes I agree with your comments. I made slides as jpegs. This is a useful feature but it is still a bit crazy reinserting images back into Powerpoint. You need a same background slide to start and then to copy this and insert the jpeg image. This gives you a layered slide rather than a new clean slide entry. But would be a way to recreate a Powerpoint or to add new material.