by Williamting » Sun Oct 12, 2003 3:59 pm
Hi Torben,
I have taken a look and I believe that there is no easy solution to this. Could you experiment this:
1. Start Zionworx
2. Open your PPT from within Zionworx
3. Close your PPT
4. Open your Window Explorer and navigate to c:\Programs\Zionworx\Temp\
5. Rename manually the dias1.jpg to slide1.jpg.
6. Open your ppt again. Can you now see your first thumbnail picture?
If you can see the first thumbnail, you may proceed to rename the rest.
The challenge here is that the above is good only if you are opening one PPT file. I believe the way ZionworX handle multiple PPT opened files is that it recreate all the jpg files for every screen of the PPT file you currently select and the file names are always the same in running numerical sequence starting with 1. This mean that if you have multiple ppt opened, the above solution is not very neat and could be very confusing.
However, if you are using only one simple ppt file every time with a couple of slides, then this solution is probably "better than nothing".
If it is possible to assign file name using perhaps some sort of environment variables, then it may be able to fix this problem. Anyone has some bright ideas?
If the above renaming of files work, perhaps you could create a simple DOS batch file with statement like rename dias1.jpg slide1.jpg, etc. Do you have any knowledge on DOS command? I could send you one if you could e-mail me.
God bless.
Post Reply Note:
Use DOS Copy command instead of Rename to avoid command failure (file slidexx.jpg may already exist).
The above has been tested by Torben to be working.