General ⇒ beamer to ppt ... and vice versa?

[goltoof]

I'm making a presentation using beamer. I'll want animations, etc if possible. Not finding a whole lot of information regarding creating a ppt file.

Is there a way to turn a beamer generated pdf into a PowerPoint file with animations?

There seem to be a few workarounds but it's unclear what works best.

Also wondering if converting from ppt file to tex is possible.

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi,

I'll want animations, etc

sounds like you don't want to focus on content. I know other people who would like to show that they are cool by that they can click together fancy predefined moving fading exploding slides. Why not adding sound?

Really cool people have slides with few key points and no distracting animations. The presenter is the show, not the software. You can be the one!

Is there a way to turn a beamer generated pdf into a PowerPoint file with animations?

Hardly, PowerPoint is too dumb. You cannot even import a PDF file, right? Just bitmaps which gets blurry when scaled?

Also wondering if converting from ppt file to tex is possible.

Hardly, you cannot get intelligent code from a dumb powerpoint output.

If I would create an "advanced" presentation, I would focus on arrangement and linking of information. And I would use TikZ.

Stefan