Converting Impaticized PowerPoint into Articulate Format
- The Impaticized presentation (unzipped) should contain 3 files. 2 of the files will have the .jar extension and one will be an HTML document. Double-click on the largest .jar file. This should open the file in a viewer window.
- Make sure you've downloaded and installed the Virtual Image Printer driver. It's open source software and can be found at http://sourceforge.net/projects/imageprinter/.
- Start the Options ImagePrinter program (which was installed when you installed the Virtual Image Printer driver).
- In the "System" tab, set the "Output" folder to the destination you want.
- Click on the "Reset Job ID" button, in the "System" tab.
- Click on the "File Format" tab and make sure you've selected the appropriate output format.
- In the Java view program, click on File -> Print. When the first dialog box loads, click "OK". On the second dialog box, select the Image Printer as the printer.
- Once the images have been generated (this could take a few minutes), go to the folder containing the images, select all the images, right click, and select "Rotate Clockwise" in the context menu.
- Make sure GIMP is installed on your computer. And make sure the following items are true.
- The batch-autocrop.scm file into the folder for your GIMP scripts. On a Win 7 machine, this is the C:\Users\USERNAME\.gimp-2.6\scripts folder.
- The folder containing the GIMP executable is included in your system path. To do this from within Windows Explorer on a Win 7 machine:
- Right click on Computer, then click on Advanced System Settings.
- Click on the "Environment Variables" button, and in the "System Variables" section, select "Path" then click the "Edit" button.
- Add the location of the directory which contains the GIMP executable to the path. By default, it's C:\Program Files\GIMP-2.0\bin
- You may need to reboot at this point unless you know how to manually add something to the path, which isn't very hard, Google it if you need to.
- Copy the batch-autocrop.bat file into the same folder as the images and run the batch file. It may take a few minutes to process, but once it's done, you'll see a message in the window saying to "Press Any Key" to exit the window.
- Open PowerPoint and create a new PowerPoint presentation. Click on the "Insert" tab and under the "Photo Album" option select New Photo Album.
- Click on the File/Disk button, navigate to the folder which contains the images, and select all the images to be included in the PowerPoint.
- This will create the slideshow. Remove the first slide, save the presentation and proceed to move forward as if you were running a regular PPT through Articulate.