Yeah, if you manually take screenshots of all the slides and link them all together with a gif animator program.
Although if you need your slides on manual advancement, that's not going to happen with .GIF.
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Straight_ManGeeky, in my own wayNaples, FLIcrontian
edited January 2004
Unless you build your slides AS .gif first (or screen capture them and do a cpature by area (GIMP)), each one, then stick into OOo (free) and play through that.... OOo can play PowerPoint slides, let you take the pics out of them, and there is OOo Draw also.
So, if you want graphics plus overlaid text, open in OOo, capture graphics, convert in GIMP, then use OOo to lay text on them. You can also export PowerPoint compatible files from OOo.
IE, do it part by part if you want high res.... OOo's Impress can give you gradient filled text over a picture if you want, so can GIMP. Or, mono-colored text. In essence, you are specing text, you play until it looks good, convert text to curves (vector conversion, embeds text into pic as part of pic, so you save your work file in native format also until really and truely done, adn the result can be stuck in a .gif if you limit your color pallette for each final graphic), though I would favor jpg or TIF for this final conversion save as gif is color pallette limited. These days, png is also used a lot, and all can be higher color than .gif.
Manual advancement in OOo Impress can also be done, so why do you need .gifs????
For OOo, free big download, look at http://www.openoffice.org/ and for GIMP google GIMP. No, am not necessarily talking Linux, OOo runs on most major O\S platforms. GIMP is not just for Linux and BSD either.
Woaaaah...Thrax and Ageek are getting waaaaay too complicated here. You asked about saving a slide as a a GIF. If that's all you need, it's simple.
In Powerpoint, go to the File menu. Choose Save As Webpage. Then under the Save As Type drop-down, choose GIF. Easy as that. Even gives you the option of saving just the current slide, or save the whole presentation as separate GIFs.
If you do need the whole Pres as GIF's with animation, then, as Thrax said, you have to animate them separately, and cannot have a manual advance, but from what you asked, the answer is as simple as Save As Webpage.
Justin
Atlanta
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Although if you need your slides on manual advancement, that's not going to happen with .GIF.
So, if you want graphics plus overlaid text, open in OOo, capture graphics, convert in GIMP, then use OOo to lay text on them. You can also export PowerPoint compatible files from OOo.
IE, do it part by part if you want high res.... OOo's Impress can give you gradient filled text over a picture if you want, so can GIMP. Or, mono-colored text. In essence, you are specing text, you play until it looks good, convert text to curves (vector conversion, embeds text into pic as part of pic, so you save your work file in native format also until really and truely done, adn the result can be stuck in a .gif if you limit your color pallette for each final graphic), though I would favor jpg or TIF for this final conversion save as gif is color pallette limited. These days, png is also used a lot, and all can be higher color than .gif.
Manual advancement in OOo Impress can also be done, so why do you need .gifs????
For OOo, free big download, look at http://www.openoffice.org/ and for GIMP google GIMP. No, am not necessarily talking Linux, OOo runs on most major O\S platforms. GIMP is not just for Linux and BSD either.
John.
In Powerpoint, go to the File menu. Choose Save As Webpage. Then under the Save As Type drop-down, choose GIF. Easy as that. Even gives you the option of saving just the current slide, or save the whole presentation as separate GIFs.
If you do need the whole Pres as GIF's with animation, then, as Thrax said, you have to animate them separately, and cannot have a manual advance, but from what you asked, the answer is as simple as Save As Webpage.
Dexter...