PowerPoint on Web

[george at library.caltech.edu]

Roy Tennant makes a good point about usability and file size.  The other
major point not mentioned -- PowerPoint is less than universal, to put it
mildly.  For broadest distribution, converting the PowerPoint to HTML, or
even PDF, would make it accessible far more broadly.  HTML versions have the
added advantage of being de facto page-at-a-time solutions, resulting in
individual downloads of less than 1% of the file size involved in viewing
the entire PowerPoint presentation.

If there is an integrated soundtrack with the PPT, all bets are off.

George S. Porter
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