PPT2HTML system requirements
Hardware Requirements
If your computer works well with the PowerPoint files you typically work with, it will work very well with PPT2HTML.
Office/PowerPoint and Windows versions
PPT2HTML is an add-in for Windows PowerPoint. It works with these versions of PowerPoint:
- PowerPoint 97
- PowerPoint 2000
- PowerPoint 2002 (aka XP)
- PowerPoint 2003
- PowerPoint 2007 (provisionally ... see below)
It works in any version of Windows that's compatible with your version of PowerPoint.
PPT2HTML doesn't work with PowerPoint for Macintosh, but should work well when installed in a Windows virtual machine under Microsoft Virtual PC (VPC).
PPT2HTML doesn't work with operating systems that don't have a native version of PowerPoint. If you have a Windows emulator that supports one of the versions of PowerPoint listed above, PPT2HTML should work as well.
What About Office 2007?
Our add-ins will install in Office 2007 and are generally compatible with it. When you install them, you'll see a new "Add-ins" item on the Office "ribbon". Our add-ins will appear there. There won't be any new toolbars or PPTools menu item. Office 2007 no longer has toolbars and menus.
PowerPoint 2007 and PPT2HTML
A serious bug in the original release of PowerPoint 2007 causes it to crash when PPT2HTML tests for hyperlinks (earlier versions of PowerPoint do not have this problem). Office 2007 Service Pack 1 (SP1) corrects this problem. If you plan to use PPT2HTML with PowerPoint 2007, you should download and install SP1.
Be aware that a different bug introduced in SP1 causes corruption in images exported at over 960 pixels wide from default-sized (10" x 7.5") slides. The original release of PowerPoint 2007 doesn't have this problem.
Because of this, PPT2HTML can only export images at up to 96 * PageWidth if you're using PowerPoint with SP1.
If you request larger images, they'll be exported at this size instead.
If you request smaller images, they'll be exported at the requested size.
In most cases, you'll be exporting smaller images for web use, so this should not be a major problem.
Is there a version of PPT2HTML that doesn't require PowerPoint?
No, nor can we recommend any other sources or any code libraries, free or otherwise, that would support a converter.
If you need to support multiple users in mixed computing environment, consider PPT2HTML Batch. You can install it on a single inexpensive Windows computer, give the computer access to a shared server folder where users save PowerPoint files for conversion and let it convert their files automatically, unattended.
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