All Thank you everyone for the wonderful informaion and help, I was able to convert the pdf to powerpoint at a much small file size. Thank you Bill ________________________________ From: optimal-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:optimal-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Mark Maio Sent: Saturday, January 21, 2012 4:58 PM To: Optimal Subject: [optimal] Re: Convert PDF to Powerpoint Marshall, I asked my Director of Education at the Digital Imaging Institute, Jim DiVitale to answer your question: Adobe moved the web gallery to the Bridge back in CS4 and can be set up in the Output workspace. Old version is not available in CS4 or CS5..... unless you download the Goodies Extras from the web site, install the missing plug in, and then it must be run in 32 bit to operate... I have a link to the download on my special download PDF that can be obtained at www.divitalephotography.com/download.zip <http://www.divitalephotography.com/download.zip> .... Jim DiVitale On 1/20/12 10:54 PM, "Marshall Tyler" <marshalletyler@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: Bill, In Photoshop CS3 there is a File, Automate, Web Photo Gallery tool. This creates one large webpage of thumbnail images from the folder of your choice. You select the number of images across, size of thumbnails, and size of the larger individually selected photos. There are a number of web "styles" so pick a simple one. In addition to a few files for the home-page, there are 3 directories: pages, thumbnails, images. In the Images folder you will find, highly compressed JPGs of your PDF files. They are sized as you selected when you created the website. I think that the largest image is 600x800 pixels. Next, open PPT and select Insert, PhotoAlbum. Select a style with a black background, or whatever you choose. You will select a folder to import the newly created JPG images. They will be sorted by filename so, if you had modified the beginning of the filename, they will come in pre-ordered: eg: 001xxx, 002xxx, 003xx, etc. This process will take under 5-10 minutes for future PPT conversions. The first time will take a bit longer to get your workflow into your head. Mark, Do you know where Adobe put this function in Photoshop CS5?? I could not find it. Bill, This worked for me. I hope that it will work for you. Marshall Marshall E Tyler s/v Silk On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 5:07 PM, sandor ferenczy <sandorferenczy@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: Bill - Two questions: What operating system are you using? Do you need to be able to edit the resulting powerpoint? -sandor On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 10:32 AM, William Anderson <William.Anderson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Friends > > How do you convert a pdf slides to PowerPoint slides. Using the snapshot > command inside Adobe reader to take an image of the pdf slide and then > transferring the image to PowerPoint makes a large file. A 5meg pdf file > becomes a 69meg file in PowerPoint. How do others convert pdfs to power > points? > > Thanks > > Bill > > ________________________________ > > UT Southwestern Medical Center > The future of medicine, today. -- Mark Maio InVision, Inc. 5445 Buckhollow Drive Alpharetta, GA 30005 markmaio@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx 404-386-5676 Consultant in ophthalmic and biomedical imaging. Member of Adobe's Biomedical Imaging Advisory Group My fine art photography is represented by Lumiere: http://lumieregallery.net/wp/?p=254