You can use the freeware IrfanView -
www.irfanview.com - to your advantage, something like this (you don't even need PowerPoint):
Open the PDF files.
Take a screenshot (PrintScreen button).
Cut out the part that interests you. I recommend the freeware IrfanView for this part (select, and press Ctrl-Y).
Save the image file to a directory.
Repeat the above for all the images you want to include.
Also in IrfanView, give the command "File | Slideshow". Select your images, select a few options, and click on "Save as EXE/SCR file".
(Alternately, you could paste into PowerPoint, and set the options there to advance automatically.)
HTH,
Hilmar.
>An old friend just called me from the hospital. He's in with a serious condition (prostate C) and is having an operationd one soon. I have not seen him or heard from him for years so I did not know.
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>He called and said he was suppossed to be in Las Vegas this next weekend for a trade show he does every year for his business. He was trying to think who could help him prepare this and I'm the only "computer expert" he knows and he needs my help as he will be unable to attend or even contract somebody in time.
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>This is outside my area an I have not much of a clue how to do this.
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>He has a set of PDFs with pictures of pages from a brochure he had made showing his products, two pages per product. He bought an Epson P-2000, a device I haven't heard of and just googled.
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>http://www.epson.com/cgi-bin/Store/consumer/consDetail.jsp?oid=49164278
>http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/epsonp2000/
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>He wants me to help him by putting together a self-running slideshow, a few seconds per page of his products from these PDFs.
>This could be run on a PC or this Epson device by one of his people at the Trade Show booth.
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>Does anybody have an idea of how to do this? I'm not sure you can do it with PDFs or how to do it with Powerpoint. I want to help him so I'll spend some time the next two days after wortk to prepare this. Has to be done before Tuesday to make the deadline.
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>Can anybody point me in the right direction?
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>TIA
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