Q:

API for powerpoint presentations to flash

How do I go about automating conversions from PowerPoint to flash?
I want a user to be able to upload a PowerPoint file into my web page and on the server I want to convert the PowerPoint to a flash movie. Is there any preferred method for doing this?
I've searched on Google and I just keep getting a lot of 3rd party software vendors selling addon software but I can't seem to find any useful guides or tutorials for doing this.

A:

There are only two (decent) solutions that I know of - the first being a little more decent than the second.

iSpring offers a free version of
their PowerPoint to Flash converter called iSpringFree.
It's decent. I use the Pro version
because I also have a need to add
e-Learning/SCORM functionality - but
if you don't have that need, it
should be fine. In general, it also
one of the better converters out
there (amongst a host of many
pay-for PPT->SWF converters).
You could open your PPT/PPTX in
OpenOffice.org's Impress and then
Export to Flash format.

Having server-side triggered conversion is a little more tricky - I don't know of a server-side component other than they pay-for SDK solution by iSpring that offers this. The two above are for manual conversion.

