I Love My MBP

The other day I received a “video” of the HNW Winter Camp highlights. Since I have recently started managing the HNW website, I was thrilled to finally have multimedia content. When I put in the DVD, expecting to find an .avi, .mpeg, .mov, (or worse, a .wmv), what I found sent shivers down my spine. Instead of a video presentation, I was welcomed by a massive 300+ slide PowerPoint presentation.

In PowerPoint, it wouldn’t be too hard to automatically export every slide as an image. But in this particular presentation, the pictures did not take up the full height/width of the slide and therefore the background would appear in every slide. This simply would not do.

Firing up Automator, I was able to quickly throw together a script that would export every picture contained in the PowerPoint presentation to a folder, where i could later pick through the images to find those that would meet my quality control standards.

Is there a built-in Windows utility that would be able to do this? I think not.

Mac wins… again.