OpenSlide(aka OSlide) is an open source WWW-based slide share system. You can make your own SlideShare or SlideBoom at your local server. It it not always the case that users upload their presentation/document because of the document’s copyright or miscellaneous reason. OpenSlide is used for these case and gives users easy to setup their own slide hosting website.
OpenSlide works on most UNIX and its compatible OSs. To install OpenSlide from a source package, perl, openoffice, swftools, unoconv are required.
It has the following features,

• Embed slideshows into your own blog or web site
• Share slideshows publicly or privately. There are several ways to share privately
• Sync audio to your slides
• Download the original file
• Supported multiply file formats: PowerPoint(.ppt/.pps), Word(.doc), PDF(.pdf), OpenOffice.org Impress(.odp), Writer(.odt) and so on.

OSlide Demo Site,
http://kadai.info/oslide/
OSlide Project webite,
http://oslide.sourceforge.net/

If you google “free pdf to ppt converter“, “pdf to powerpoint” , you will find many share/commercial software, of course, you can also find my free software PDF2PPT, but it still need Adobe Acrobat, but if you have no Adobe Acrobat, how to do?
Now, you have another choice, Acrobat Free version PDFtoPPT, and it is a windows command line version, of course it is also free.

A handy snippet of PHP code that can be used to parse XFDF data.
This past week at work I have been working on using Adobe Acrobat to submit form data. The value of this is that the form data can be reimported into the PDF form then printed all purty-lookin’. Anyway, Acrobat allows you to submit your form data in several different formats. One, FDF, is usable in PHP provided you load this module thingy. Unfortunately, the server I want to run the PHP script on uses Irix and the module is unavailable for Irix. Poor.

I then turned to XFDF, which is essentially FDF data all XML-ified. PHP has an XML parser built in, so I don’t have to load any crazy modules to parse the data. Unfortunately, PHP’s parser is SAX-based rather than DOM-based, so it took me a rather long time to figure out how to get it working right. Anyway, here’s the PHP code that essentially takes XFDF data (declare $file as a string pointing to the location of your XFDF file) and parses it into an associative array ($values). The array is indexed by the XFDF field names. The code below is not entirely complete since I snipped it out of a larger file, but if you look at it, I think you’ll get the idea. It’s pretty simple once you figure out the way PHP does XML processing.

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Contributed by: Tyler Butler