I know that this has been brought up before, but I can't seem to find the post.

Flash is vector based and so are SVG's (obviously).

Images are raster based and thus can tear apart when brought into Flash.  This especially happens a smaller sized image is made into Flash and then the view size is increased.

Aspose.Slides can export to SVG, but Aspose.Flash cannot directly import an SVG.  To me this doesn't make a lot of sense.  It's like you built half of the solution and then stopped.

So could you improve Aspose.Flash and have a way to import an SVG?  Either that, or have Aspose.Slides be able to export directly to and SWF?

I'll post this on the Aspose.Slides forum as well.  Thanks!

Dan

P.S.  I would prefer this option as it would be more flexible to import SVG's from many sources.

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Dear Dan,

Yes, you are right, development of Aspose.Slides and Aspose.Flash is not finished.
We always add new features. Unfortunately not so many for Aspose.Flash yet.
Really, we have both tasks in our planes. I mean converting svg to swf (Aspose.Flash) and
export presentations to swf format (Aspose.Slides using Aspose.Flash).

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Well I am glad to hear that importing an SVG is on the dev schedule.  Could you give me a time estimate as to when you think it will get added?  We have one client that could really use this feature, but we are having to use FlashSpring single user at the moment to get it done.  The sooner that you can add the SVG import feature to Aspose.Flash, the more likely I can talk my team out of buying FlashSpring server.

If we install and configure FlashSpring server it will be harder to convince them to switch over to Aspose.Flash, since a working solution will already be in place.  I would rather use your products as we have implemented my other Aspose components successfully into our solutions.

Thanks for your hard work and attention to customer requests!

Dan

P.S.  As I mentioned before, I would rather see SVG import into Flash be implemented before PPT to SWF export.  Once an SVG can be imported into Flash, then you don't really need PPT export directly to Flash since you already have PPT export to SVG.

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Any intermediate conversions are very bad thing so I'd prefer to develop direct converting PPT to SWF.
There are many features in SVG format and I think it will be implemented step by step.
Probably importing of svg files generated with Aspose.Slides into Flash and most of other svg files will be available in next 2-3 month.

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Ok, but if you export PPT directly to SWF make sure that it is all done vector based, or else it is a pointless operation.

You said that importing of SVG into Flash will probably be available in the next 2-3 months.  Is that the same timeframe for exporting PPT directly to SWF as well?

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Sure, all text and shapes will be vector based except images of course.
Direct PPT to SWF conversion will be implemented after new PP2007 format.
Probably closer to the end of autumn. If I'm not mistaken you prefer SVG import at first.

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Ok, sounds good.  I look forward to both the SVG import and the direct PPT to SWF export.

Thanks for your great work!

Dan

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It has been over a year and a half since the last response to this thread, and still I have not seen any implementation of PPT to SWF released.

If you have made this improvement and I am simply missing the announcement, please let me know and I will download the latest DLL immediately.

If you have not made the improvement yet, please let me know what the hold up is and when I can expect to see this completed.

Thanks!

Dan

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Dear Dan,

 

Thanks for considering Aspose.Flash.

 

Please download the Aspose.Flash installer from here.

http://www.aspose.com/community/files/51/aspose.flash/default.aspx

 

The installer will install the featured demos on your computer; there you can see the Ppt2Swf demo. This demo converts the existing ppt to swf file.

 

For your convenience, I had converted one ppt to swf file with that demo and attached here for you to view.

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Yes, I know that SVG import is an option, but I am looking for direct PPT to SWF export, with the option of exporting each slide separately as well as in a single SWF.

Right now I am using the SVG import and have run into a few issues.

1. Text shadows are not being rendered when the slides are converted to SVG.
2. I have an image with a transparent background in my PPT.  When the slide is converted to an SVG, the background turns black.  It needs to stay transparent.
3. The file size of the SVGs, and consequently the SWFs, are a lot larger than when we use FlashSpring to convert the PPT.  This is the case both on slides that have images and those that don't.  In order to start using Aspose.Flash for automatic conversions, the file size must be lowered drastically.

Please let me know what timeframe you are looking at to complete each of these issues.

Thanks!

Dan

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Dear Dan,

 

There are currently no plans to add direct PPT to SWF export.

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I'm really surprised to hear that.  If you look above, Alexey said on 6/26/2006 (almost 2 years ago):

"Direct PPT to SWF conversion will be implemented after new PP2007 format.
Probably closer to the end of autumn."

So why was it on the schedule two years ago and is not completed yet.  It's not very good business practice to promise that a feature will be implemented and then two years later say there are no plans to implement it.

Aspose teams are usually very responsive, and I must admit that I am quite disappointed in the response I have received from the Aspose.Flash team.

Could you please respond to the other issues I mentioned in my post while you are deciding how to address your lack of response on the direct PPT to SWF conversion?

Thank you,

Dan

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Dear Dan,

I'm sorry if you are disappointed but PPT to SWF conversion impleneted as open source demo and that is rather direct way. In most cases it works fine. Also it is more flexible because you can change code if necessary. Shakeel means we are not planning to hide this feature inside of Aspose.Flash or Aspose.Slides. So I don't see any lack of responce in this question.

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Alexey,

Thanks for you quick reply.  Perhaps it was just miscommunication as to what "direct PPT to SWF conversion" meant.  I can live with PPT to SVG to SWF conversion, but I still need the other issues I am facing addressed.

Could you or someone else on your team please provide an answer as to when those issues will be fixed?

Thank you,

Dan

P.S.  If you need examples, I can provide that for you.

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I will try to answer but please provide examples anyway. It should help very much.

1. There are 2 possible shadows for text. Standard one and 3d effect which added to whole shape.
The second one currently is not supported in SVG. First one should work fine but I need example to give more exact answer.
2. That will be investigated shortly and most probably also fixed.
3. The size of swf mostly depends on number of text on a slide. The main problem is text added to swf as set of polylines. I'd say too many polylines and their coordinates required a lot of space.

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