On 18.05.2010, at 17:02, RIchard Heck wrote: > > Sending this to user's, too.... > > On 05/18/2010 10:24 AM, Wes Lakenan wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> My company is looking into switching from MS Word to a less stressful >> program to create textbook-like binders. My company is a government >> contractor that teaches program management courses that utilize both printed >> text and PowerPoint presentations. Right now, we create PowerPoint files >> and copy/paste them into a Word document. This allows the students to >> follow along with the printed text and use the inserted PowerPoint slides to >> follow the presentation. However, every time a slide is changed or deleted, >> every slide needs to be reinserted. Is it possible to insert individual >> slides throughout the document one by one? I appreciate any help you can >> give me. >> > I have only a very vague sense what you are trying to do, but I think this > kind of thing would be possible. Is the idea that the slides from the > presentation appear as images in the text, so that the student can see them > there with the text? > > If so, then I would think the workflow could look like this. You create two > separate documents: a LyX document for the text, and a presentation document, > for which you could use OpenOffice Impress or LyX itself, via the Beamer > class, or you could stick with PowerPoint. You print the presentation > document as a PDF and then use something like pdftoppm to convert the pages > of the pdf to images. The images themselves can then be inserted into the LyX > document in the usual way. Since all of this is just running a bunch of > programs, it could all be automated, even, though you might have to check the > image names manually, as they could change if you'd added or removed pages.
It's even easier than that as LyX/Latex (\includegraphics) can directly embed a certain page of a PDF file as graphics. The general idea is to have the slides as external material that is *referenced from* the textbook document instead of *copied into* it, so that whenever a silde changes, it also changes in the textbook. Note: While I surely would like to convince you to use LyX, this should be possible with Word as well (at least it used to be possible ten years ago). Daniel
