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Old 07-21-2015, 09:15 AM   #3
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Originally Posted by marenkus View Post
Dear Community,
i have created a Power Point presentation (approx. 300 slides) that i would like to convert into an ebook. The presentation contains many pictures and different fonts.
Is it possible with Sigil to create a fixed layout? Are there any other options that wont be too expensive? Is there a free software? It would be best if i can run the program on a MAC.
The ebool should be readable on Kindle and Ipad if possible.
Do you have an recommandations for me?
Maren from Berlin!



Be sure to let people know it is a FIXED layout ebook. There is no way I will ever read it, fixed layout is a bad word to me.

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Originally Posted by Turtle91 View Post
Wie Geht's Maren! Welcome to MR Forum!

There is a good sub-forum for asking formatting/project questions: The Workshop

As I have heard repeatedly, Fixed Format ebooks are a real pain to work with and not all devices support them. However, the easiest way I can think of would be to save each slide as an image - then make each image it's own page in the book using an SVG wrapper like this:
Spoiler:

Code:
<body>
  <div>
    <svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" height="100%" preserveAspectRatio="xMidYMid meet" version="1.1" viewBox="0 0 1000 1600" width="100%" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"><image height="1600" width="1000" xlink:href="../Images/image.jpg" />
    </svg>
  </div>
</body>

*make sure to update viewBox="0 0 1000 1600" as well as <image height and width> with your image's dimensions*


I'm sure there are many other ways that people can recommend here, but this will get the job done quickly and easily. I'm not sure if all kindles/iPads support multiple SVG images (??) but if they don't you can also try using the following:
Spoiler:

Code:
<div class="whatever"><img alt="" src="../Images/example.jpg" /></div>

with CSS:
.whatever {width:100%; max-width:2015px} 
               *set max-width to the actual width of that image*
               *add any other styling to your preferences*

If all your slides are the same dimensions then that would be fairly simple to code.

Tschüs!
I would code the css like this:
Code:
  height: auto;
  max-height: 100%;
  width: auto;
  max-width: 100%;
Good luck
bernie

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