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PowerPoint export
This document contains answers to frequently asked questions on the PowerPoint export function in LECTURNITY 2. Registered customers can find more FAQs in the LECTURNITY CustomerServiceCentre.
Conversion scope of the export
LECTURNITY does not export all PowerPoint functionalities or objects. When designing your PowerPoint slides, please note the following table:
| Functionality/Object | Type of export |
|---|---|
User-defined animation | Not all effects are supported. |
OLE objects and diagrams | Exported as an image. No further changes to the input values are possible. |
Arrowheads | Not all types are supported. |
AutoForms and WordArt objects | Incorrect positioning or dimensioning possible. |
Special characters | Incorrect positioning or dimensioning possible. |
Bullets are converted to | Problem when using PowerPoint 2000 |
Instead of the page number, the text appears "<No.>" | Size of the place holder too small |
Page number | Not all formats are supported. |
Text effects | The "shadow" and "relief" effects are not supported. |
Tabs | The use of tabs can lead to incorrect positioning of the following text. |
TrueType fonts | Only installed TrueType fonts can be used for display. |
"Justified" formatting is ignored | Display problem |
Menu entries deactivated
Question: The menu entries for PowerPoint export are showing up as deactivated in PowerPoint. Why can I not use them?
Explanation: In PowerPoint, two additional menu options are added when LECTURNITY is installed, "Open in LECTURNITY Assistant" and "Save as LECTURNITY source document". These entries are only active if PowerPoint contains at least one document. If only one document is loaded and you select "Close" in the File menu, but then cancel this action, the menu entries are wrongly deactivated.
Solution: To reactivate the menu entries, simply select "Open" in the File menu and then cancel this action by clicking on "Cancel".
Instead of the page number, the text "<No.>" appears
Question: Why does the text "<No.>" appear instead of the page number?
Explanation: The text field that contains the page number is too small.
The text that acts as a place holder for the page number (<No.>) is wrapped. This wrapped text is not recognised as a place holder during export and therefore not replaced with the respective page number. What do you do?
Solution: Enlarge the text field so that the place holder text is not wrapped. The page numbers will then be exported correctly.
"Justified" formatting is ignored
If a text has been created in PowerPoint with "Justified" formatting, it is displayed as "Left aligned" after import into the LECTURNITY Assistant.
Special characters are positioned wrongly.
Texts in PowerPoint can contain special characters that cannot be displayed as text in the LECTURNITY Assistant. These characters are therefore exported as pictures. After conversion of a character into a picture, it is often not possible to dimension and position it correctly.
Using tabs
Question: Why is my text incorrectly positioned after export from PowerPoint into LECTURNITY Assistant?
Explanation: One possibility is that the text was indented using tabs. Since the calculation of the width of a tab in LECTURNITY Assistant can differ from the width calculation in PowerPoint, this may lead to the text being wrongly positioned.
Solution: Indent the text using spaces.