Many of my Enterprise customers have asked for a way to bring PowerPoint content to DPS. While InDesign provides a robust design platform for creating interactive DPS experiences, InDesign isn’t always readily accessible to a salesperson or sales management who need to deploy presentations to their tablet-enabled sales force. In addition, they often have many years of approved presentation content in PowerPoint that is readily available. In order to use that content in DPS, a design team would usually rebuild the content in InDesign or perhaps use a third party tool to export the presentation to HTML and then import it to DPS. With the release of R32.1 of Adobe DPS, Enterprise DPS customers can now export their PowerPoint presentations directly to their DPS accounts using a new PowerPoint add-in. Learn more at the DPS Export Add-in Help Page.
The add-in is available for Windows 7 and higher customers who use PowerPoint 2010 or 2013 in 32bit mode. There is no Macintosh version, as PowerPoint for Mac does not have a add-in architecture similar to Windows. You can download a localized version of the add-in from here.
The add-in supports most animations and even video. The add-in installs the desktop Content Viewer, too, so you don’t need InDesign to proof your presentation before publishing it to the Folio Producer. The ease with which a business user can convert their presentations to DPS is shocking, and I believe that customers will be delighted with the results.
I’ve recorded a short video showing the add-in in action. View it on Youtube.
The add-in supports many of the interactive features in PowerPoint. Below is a table of supported interactive items.
| Category | Subcategory | Content | ACV Support Status | |
| Static Content | Tables | Insert Table | Yes | |
| Draw Table | Yes | |||
| Excel SpreadSheet | Yes | |||
| Images | Picture | Yes | ||
| Clip Art | Yes | |||
| Screenshot | Yes | |||
| Photo Album | Yes | |||
| Illustations | Shapes | Yes | ||
| SmartArt | Yes | |||
| Chart | Yes | |||
| Text | Text Box | Yes | ||
| Header & Footer | Yes | |||
| WordArt | Yes | |||
| Date & Time | Yes | |||
| Slide Number | No | |||
| Object | Yes | |||
| Symbols | Equation | Yes | ||
| Symbol | Yes | |||
| Interactive Content | Hyperlink | Existing File | No | |
| Web Page | Yes | |||
| Place in This Document | First Slide | Yes | ||
| Last Slide | Yes | |||
| Next Slide | Yes | |||
| Previous Slide | Yes | |||
| Slide Titles | Yes | |||
| Custom Shows | No | |||
| Create New Document | No | |||
| Email Address | Yes | |||
| Notes: Foliomaker does not support the hyperlinks in SmartArt graphic. |
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| Action (Mouse Click) |
Hyperlink to: | Next Slide | Yes | |
| Previous Slide | Yes | |||
| First Slide | Yes | |||
| Last Slide | Yes | |||
| Last Slide Viewed | No | |||
| End Show | No | |||
| Custom Show | No | |||
| Slide | Yes | |||
| URL | Yes | |||
| Other PowerPoint Presentation | No | |||
| Other File | No | |||
| Run Program | No | |||
| Run Macro | No | |||
| Object Action | No | |||
| Play Sound | No | |||
| Highlight Click | No | |||
| Video | Video from File | Yes | ||
| Video from Web Site | No | |||
| Clip Art Video (GIF) | No | |||
| Audio | Audio from File (.mp3) | Yes | ||
| Clip Art Audio (.wav) | Yes | |||
| Record Audio | No | |||
| Animation | – | |||
| Transitions | – | No | ||
Below is a list of supported animations.
| Animation type | Desktop & iPad ACV Support Status | |
| Entrance Effects | Appear | No |
| Box | Yes | |
| Circle | Yes | |
| Dissolve In | Yes | |
| Peek In | Yes | |
| Random Bars | Yes | |
| Strips | No | |
| Wheel | No | |
| Blinds | Yes | |
| Checkerboard | Yes | |
| Diamond | Yes | |
| Fly In | Yes | |
| Plus | No | |
| Split | No | |
| Wedge | No | |
| Wipe | Yes | |
| Expand | Yes | |
| Swivel | Yes | |
| Fade | Yes | |
| Zoom | Yes | |
| Basic Zoom | Yes | |
| Float Down | Yes | |
| Grow & Turn | No | |
| Spinner | Yes | |
| Center Revolve | Yes | |
| Float up | Yes | |
| Rise up | Yes | |
| Basic Swivel | Yes | |
| Bounce | Yes | |
| Curve Up | Yes | |
| Flip | Yes | |
| Pinwheel | No | |
| Whip | Yes | |
| Boomerang | Yes | |
| Credits | Yes | |
| Drop | Yes | |
| Float | Yes | |
| Spiral In | Yes | |
| Emphasis Effects | Fill Color | Yes |
| Grow/Shrink | Yes | |
| Spin | No | |
| Font Color | Yes | |
| Line Color | Yes | |
| Transparency | No | |
| Bold Flash | Yes | |
| Complementary Color | Yes | |
| Contrasing Color | Yes | |
| Desaturate | Yes | |
| Object Color | Yes | |
| Underline | Yes | |
| Brush Color | Yes | |
| Complementary Color 2 | Yes | |
| Darken | Yes | |
| Lighten | Yes | |
| Pulse | Yes | |
| Color Pulse | Yes | |
| Shimmer | Yes | |
| Grow With Color | Yes | |
| Teeter | Yes | |
| Blink | Yes | |
| Wave | Yes | |
| Bold Reveal | No | |
| Exit Effects | Blinds | No |
| Checkerboard | No | |
| Diamond | Yes | |
| Dissolve Out | Yes | |
| Peek Out | Yes | |
| Random Bars | Yes | |
| Strips | No | |
| Wheel | No | |
| Box | No | |
| Circle | Yes | |
| Disappear | No | |
| Fly Out | Yes | |
| Plus | Yes | |
| Split | No | |
| Wedge | No | |
| Wipe | No | |
| Contract | Yes | |
| Swivel | No | |
| Fade | Yes | |
| Zoom | Yes | |
| Basic Zoom | No | |
| Float Down | Yes | |
| Shrink & Turn | Yes | |
| Spinner | Yes | |
| Center Revolve | No | |
| Float Up | Yes | |
| Sink Down | Yes | |
| Basic Swivel | No | |
| Bounce | Yes | |
| Curve Down | Yes | |
| Flip | Yes | |
| Pinwheel | Yes | |
| Whip | Yes | |
| Boomerang | Yes | |
| Credits | Yes | |
| Drop | Yes | |
| Float | No | |
| Spiral Out | Yes | |
| Motion Paths | 4 Point Star | Yes |
| 6 Point star | Yes | |
| Circle | Yes | |
| Diamond | Yes | |
| Football | Yes | |
| Hexagon | Yes | |
| Parallelogram | Yes | |
| Right Triangle | Yes | |
| Teardrop | Yes | |
| 5 Point Star | Yes | |
| 8 Point Star | Yes | |
| Crescent Moon | Yes | |
| Equal Triangle | Yes | |
| Heart | Yes | |
| Octagon | Yes | |
| Pentagon | Yes | |
| Square | Yes | |
| Trapezoid | Yes | |
| Arc Down | Yes | |
| Arc Right | Yes | |
| Bounce Left | Yes | |
| Curvy Left | Yes | |
| Decaying Wave | Yes | |
| Diagonal Up Right | Yes | |
| Funnel | Yes | |
| Left | Yes | |
| S Curve 1 | Yes | |
| Sine Wave | Yes | |
| Spiral Right | Yes | |
| Stairs Down | Yes | |
| Turn Down Right | Yes | |
| Turn Up Right | Yes | |
| Wave | Yes | |
| Arc Left | Yes | |
| Arc Up | Yes | |
| Bounce Right | Yes | |
| Curvy Right | Yes | |
| Diagonal Down Right | Yes | |
| Down | Yes | |
| Heartbear | Yes | |
| Right | Yes | |
| S Curve 2 | Yes | |
| Spiral Left | Yes | |
| Spring | Yes | |
| Turn Down | Yes | |
| Turn Up | Yes | |
| Up | Yes | |
| Ziazag | Yes | |
| Bean | Yes | |
| Curved X | Yes | |
| Figure 8 Four | Yes | |
| Inverted Square | Yes | |
| Loop de Loop | Yes | |
| Peanut | Yes | |
| Pointy Star | Yes | |
| Vertical Figure 8 | Yes | |
| Curved Square | Yes | |
| Curvy Star | Yes | |
| Horizontal Figure8 | Yes | |
| Inverted Triangle | Yes | |
| Veutron | Yes | |
| Plus | Yes | |
| Swoosh | Yes | |