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Enterprise Architect => General Board => Topic started by: meierch on April 15, 2010, 05:15:16 am

Title: Embed Diagrams in Powerpoint
Post by: meierch on April 15, 2010, 05:15:16 am

I'm doing some education sessions and I would like to use as much models in it as possible. There is however a certain amount of educational content which I would rather like to maintain on slides. Currently I'm switching between powerpoint and EA which is not ideal. Initially we copied the diagrams over - which is boring and error prone. I would prefer to embed the diagrams in the powerpoint presentation and update the embeded objects before giving the course.

I have tried doing this by creating an both HTML and RTF reports and then embeding the diagrams from the reports in the powerpoint slides. Whenever I regenerate these documents using the latest model the links in the embedded objects break ...

Is something like this possible?

Title: Re: Embed Diagrams in Powerpoint
Post by: Paolo F Cantoni on April 15, 2010, 09:55:08 am

Hi Christian,

use Diagram|Save image... to save the image of the diagram to a nominated file.

Unfortunately the HTML report for reasons best known to the Sparxians, renames the output files every time.

HTH,
Paolo

Title: Re: Embed Diagrams in Powerpoint
Post by: Geert Bellekens on April 15, 2010, 04:43:52 pm

There is a solution, but unfortunately you still have to code it :-/

I've written report generators in the past that can refresh their content. Those report generator were intended for Word, but I think it should be easy enough to do the same for Powerpoint.

Unfortunately I don't own the code for those report generators, otherwise I'd be happy to open source them.

Geert

Title: Re: Embed Diagrams in Powerpoint
Post by: meierch on April 16, 2010, 04:25:47 am

Thanks!

Sounds like a lot of work ... I hoped to find an easy way.