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I have a PowerPoint presentation where I extensively use simple animations, only appear/disappear effects triggered by the mouse (not time based), without any smooth transitions.
Is it possible to export a PDF where every single step of the animation is on a separate slide?. The problem is that, exporting through the save-as menu, each slide in the pdf is just a snapshot of the corresponding powerpoint slide (with everything visible).
Example: Suppose I have the following slide that start visualizing the shape [A]
:
[A]
clicking the mouse or pressing the right arrow triggers the 'appear' event for the shape [B]
:
[A] -> [B]
clicking the mouse or pressing the right arrow triggers the 'disappear' event for the shape [A]
:
[B]
The PDF exported file of this PowerPoint animation will have a single slide with [A] -> [B]
, while I would like to have three separate slides.
1Worked for me in Office 2013. – bdforbes – 2014-12-15T23:42:00.827
1Works perfectly with Office 2013 & Windows 7. – Sigroad – 2015-10-09T11:20:19.920
Worked in Office 2013, but got lots of error messages saying it wasn't working. – Veridian – 2015-10-29T23:53:59.703
1Office 2013 on Windows 10 also worked fine (and worked brilliantly - thanks!). – Kate – 2016-11-25T14:59:26.793
1Still works with Office 365 as of August 2018 on Windows 10 – Martin Modrák – 2018-08-29T12:31:56.133
4Is there a way to get this working on a Mac? – reseter – 2011-08-25T09:36:30.277
2It works very well, even in Office 2013 on Windows 8! The only problem is that when the additional slides are created, the page number advances. It would be incredibly useful if the "expanded" slides conserved the the number of the original! (Or were called N-a, N-b, ...) – JorgeGT – 2013-01-17T15:20:53.277
Hi Massimo, it works perfectly! It gives me an error (n.380) but it produces the correct result anyway.
Thanks for your efforts in writing this application, I hope that it will gain the deserved visibility because it's very difficult to find on google!
As a side note, I've been using latex-beamer and it looks fantastic, but, ironically, it suffer from the opposite problem: it is difficult to join slides for handouts :)
I wonder why – mrucci – 2009-11-29T21:12:20.803
Nooooo it's an exe... I'm lost! – John Berryman – 2013-10-21T18:44:23.473
Sadly, it doesn't work (anymore) in Office 2013 as @JorgeGT said, maybe some updates have changed the way PowerPoint behaves. PowerPoint always crashes right after starting it when the add-in is activated. Nevertheless, thank you very much for writing the add-in. It's probably been much work! – ComFreek – 2014-04-03T19:07:31.777
1I've just tested it with Office 2013 and it worked all right! – pagliuca – 2014-06-17T22:51:04.700