Use PowerPoint Publishing on Linux

On Linux, you can publish a HyperWorks Desktop session to a new PowerPoint file.

If you modify your HyperWorks Desktop session, you cannot synchronize those changes with an existing or opened PowerPoint file like you can on Windows, you can only use Publish to New PPT to transfer those changes to an existing PowerPoint presentation.

Access PowerPoint Publishing on Linux

  1. From the menu bar, select File > Publish > PowerPoint.

Or

  1. From the Standard > PPT menu, select Publish to PowerPoint.


    Figure 1.

Publish your HyperWorks Desktop session to a new PowerPoint file on Linux

  1. From the Publishing PowerPoint dialog, select New PPT and click Publish.
  2. From the file browser, select a location to save your file. The following files are saved:
    *.xml, *.vbs, and a [demo_pptData] directory.
  3. For a newly-published session, double-click the *.vbs file.
    The PowerPoint files opens.
    Note: HyperWorks Desktop prompts you to add the Altair add-in to PowerPoint upon selecting the *.vbs file for the first time.
  4. If you update your HyperWorks Desktop session and you want to update the PowerPoint presentation, click New PPT > Publish to create a new set of files as described above to capture those modifications.

Update an existing PowerPoint presentation on Linux

When you edit the HyperWorks Desktop session and you want to capture those changes to a PowerPoint file, click Publish to create a new PPT. Each time you publish to PowerPoint on Linux, a new set of files is created: *.vbs, *.xml and the [demo_pptData]. You can use the XML file to synchronize an existing PowerPoint file with the changes made in HyperWorks Desktop.

  1. Open a saved PowerPoint presentation.
  2. From PowerPoint, click the Altair tab. The toolbar is displayed.


    Figure 2.
  3. Click Sync File to load the XML file.
    All images in the PowerPoint presentation are updated to reflect the images contained in the XML file.