PowerLight

A presentation can take a lot of time, but besides the time factor, attention is of even greater importance. Luckily, you can greatly enhance any presentation with a proper slideshow, which can come under different formats. In case you need to include it in your website, applications like PowerLight help you convert it to a suitable format.

The application doesn’t even need to be installed on your computer to properly function, and it can run from the moment download is finished. However, you need to make sure the computer you use it on is equipped with .NET Framework, although recent Windows iterations come with the component as a default feature. What’s more, system registries remain intact, thus not affecting the target PC.

A compact main window shows up when the application is launched, with a couple of fields that let you specify source and destination. As the name might suggest, PowerLight wants to take PowerPoint presentations and convert them to Silverlight HTML components to be integrated in web pages. Just make sure to have Office installed, because PPT and PPTX files can’t be loaded without PowerPoint.

On the other hand, the application can also be used to convert XPS documents, the default, old-school PDF document, into Silverlight components, task which doesn’t require any additional applications to be installed.

In case the presentation isn’t configured when to turn to the next slide and how, the application puts several options at your disposal. As such, you can specify the slide duration in seconds, and whether or not to automatically start, apply a custom transition effect and how long for it to last, as well as the quality of displayed images and corresponding format.

PowerLight manages to live up to expectations and provides an intuitive way through which to convert PPT or XPS documents into components that can be included in web pages that support Silverlight. Adding files is easy enough, with a set of options to handle some minor slide tweaks. It can be used by beginners and experienced individuals alike.