Author Topic: Embed Diagrams in Powerpoint  (Read 3329 times)

meierch

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Embed Diagrams in Powerpoint
« 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?
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Christian

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Re: Embed Diagrams in Powerpoint
« Reply #1 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.

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Re: Embed Diagrams in Powerpoint
« Reply #2 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.

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Re: Embed Diagrams in Powerpoint
« Reply #3 on: April 16, 2010, 04:25:47 am »
Thanks!

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