Once I gave up the idea of using a gif file, I was able to do it very easily through windows media player. Thanks to all of you for your help! Have a great weekend!

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1. New User Questions (Jeanne Lucas) 2. Re: New User Questions (Alexandre Prokoudine) 3. Re: New User Questions (Ofnuts) 4. Re: New User Questions (Pat David) 5. Re: New User Questions (Alexandre Prokoudine)

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Message: 1 Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2015 20:01:28 +0000 From: Jeanne Lucas
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I am a new user attempting to convert power points to gifs that can be played on our company website. I save the power point presentation as a gif, then open it as layers in gimp. Once I save the presentation again, it works well, but the timings I had set in power point are gone.

I cannot find a "delay time" button nor can I find a way to use the "frames" to get the slides to the different timings I need. I also occasionally have resolution problems when I open the presentation in gimp and again as I save them to a gif after I am finished in gimp.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Thank you!

Jeanne Lucas CSR & Office Assistant
MASWU Transfer Station
1431 17th Avenue
McPherson, KS 67460
(620) 241-6559 ext. 300
jlucas@maswu.org

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Message: 2 Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2015 00:45:51 +0300 From: Alexandre Prokoudine
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On Wed, Mar 11, 2015 at 11:01 PM, Jeanne Lucas wrote:

I cannot find a "delay time" button

What should it do?

nor can I find a way to use the "frames" to get the slides to the different timings I need.

Please follow http://www.gimp.org/tutorials/Simple_Animations/, especially Step 3.

Alex

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Message: 3 Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2015 23:03:23 +0100 From: Ofnuts
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On 11/03/15 21:01, Jeanne Lucas wrote:

I am a new user attempting to convert power points to gifs that can be played on our company website. I save the power point presentation as a gif, then open it as layers in gimp. Once I save the presentation again, it works well, but the timings I had set in power point are gone.

I cannot find a "delay time" button nor can I find a way to use the "frames" to get the slides to the different timings I need. I also occasionally have resolution problems when I open the presentation in gimp and again as I save them to a gif after I am finished in gimp.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Thank you!

Animated GIF is not a good format for this:

* it won't adapt to the user's screen definition, you'll have to use a lowest common denominator
* due to the small number of available colors edges of text and diagrams will look pixellated
* it won't adapt to your user's reading speed

Why don't you convert your PPT to PDF instead?

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Message: 4 Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2015 22:04:45 +0000 From: Pat David
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Or even to HTML - I think there is an export option in powerpoint to generate an html page directly...

On Wed, Mar 11, 2015 at 5:03 PM Ofnuts wrote:

On 11/03/15 21:01, Jeanne Lucas wrote:

I am a new user attempting to convert power points to gifs that can be

played on our company website. I save the power point presentation as a gif, then open it as layers in gimp. Once I save the presentation again, it works well, but the timings I had set in power point are gone.

I cannot find a "delay time" button nor can I find a way to use the

"frames" to get the slides to the different timings I need. I also occasionally have resolution problems when I open the presentation in gimp and again as I save them to a gif after I am finished in gimp.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Thank you!

Animated GIF is not a good format for this:

* it won't adapt to the user's screen definition, you'll have to use a lowest common denominator
* due to the small number of available colors edges of text and diagrams will look pixellated
* it won't adapt to your user's reading speed

Why don't you convert your PPT to PDF instead?

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Message: 5 Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2015 01:16:37 +0300 From: Alexandre Prokoudine
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Or just upload to Slideshare and embed it into the website.

Alex

On Thu, Mar 12, 2015 at 1:04 AM, Pat David wrote:

Or even to HTML - I think there is an export option in powerpoint to generate an html page directly...

On Wed, Mar 11, 2015 at 5:03 PM Ofnuts wrote:

On 11/03/15 21:01, Jeanne Lucas wrote:

I am a new user attempting to convert power points to gifs that can be

played on our company website. I save the power point presentation as a gif, then open it as layers in gimp. Once I save the presentation again, it works well, but the timings I had set in power point are gone.

I cannot find a "delay time" button nor can I find a way to use the

"frames" to get the slides to the different timings I need. I also occasionally have resolution problems when I open the presentation in gimp and again as I save them to a gif after I am finished in gimp.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Thank you!

Animated GIF is not a good format for this:

* it won't adapt to the user's screen definition, you'll have to use a lowest common denominator
* due to the small number of available colors edges of text and diagrams will look pixellated
* it won't adapt to your user's reading speed

Why don't you convert your PPT to PDF instead?

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