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Is it possible to embed a PowerPoint presentation (.ppt) into a webpage (.xhtml)?
This will be used on a local intranet where there is a mix of Internet Explorer 6 and Internet Explorer 7 only, so no need to consider other browsers.
I've given up... I guess Flash is the way forward.
I don't know of a way to embed PowerPoint slides directly into HTML. However, there are a number of solutions online for converting a PPT file into a SWF, which can be embedded into HTML just like any other Flash movie.
Googling for 'ppt to swf' seems to give a lot of hits. Some are free, others aren't. Some handle things like animations, others just do still images. There's got to be one out there that does what you need. :)
Google Docs allows you to upload a PowerPoint document, you can then 'Share' it with everyone then you can 'Publish' it and this will provide code to embed it in your site or you can use a direct link which runs at the full size of the browser window. The conversion is pretty good and scales well because the text is retained rather than converted to an image. The conversion is pretty good and the whole thing is free. Definitely worth a go.
The 'actual answer' is that you cannot do it directly. You have to convert your PowerPoint presentation to something that the browser can process. You can save each page of the PowerPoint presentation as a JPEG image and then display as a series of images. You can save the PowerPoint presentation as HTML. Both of these solutions will render only static pages, without any of the animations of PowerPoint. You can use a tool to convert your PowerPoint presentation to Flash (.swf) and embed it that way. This will preserve any animations and presumably allow you to do an automatic slideshow without the need for writing special code to change the images.
Power point supports converting to mp4 which can be posted using a html5 video tag.
Save As > MPEG-4 Video (*.mp4)
<video controls autoplay reload="none" style="width:1000px;">
<source src="my_power_point.mp4" type="video/mp4" />
</video>
As an alternate solution, you can convert PPT/PPTX to JPG/SVG images and display them with revealjs. See example code here.
PS. I am working as SW developer at Aspose.
Try PowerPoint ActiveX 2.4. This is an ActiveX component that embeds PowerPoint into an OCX.
Since you are using just Internet Explorer 6 and Internet Explorer 7 you can embed this component into the HTML.
As a side note: If your intranet users also have access to the Internet, you can use the SlideShare widget to embed your PowerPoint presentations in your website.
(Remember to mark your presentation as private!)
Some Flash tool that can convert the PowerPoint file to Flash could be helpful. Slide share is also helpful. For me, I will take something like PPT2Flash Pro or things like that.
Well, I think you get to convert the powerpoint to flash first. PowerPoint is not a sharable format on Internet. Some tool like PowerPoint to Flash could be helpful for you.