when I upload a powerpoint zipped folder into my lesson (as documented in MoodleDocs), it will import it successfully, but this only works in English case ..
but if the slide contains some Arabic language text, it will now show it on the page !!
does anyone know the reason ?
p.s. the name of the powerpoint zipped folder must be in English language in all cases.
thank you Stuart and Chris for your possible solutions, we have solved this problem.
the importing process was successfull in all cases, but as i said, in case of Arabic content, it will display empty pages, so w ehave solved these issues:
1) when you upload a powerpoint that contains some content and ONE IMAGE, this image will cause Lesson to produce two empty pages, this has been solved.
2) the character encoding of Arabic letters problem solved with the function: iconv
we have used it like this:
iconv('windows-1256','utf-8',$matches[3][0]);
so the import of Arabic slides has become successfull.
3) after importing powerpoint (English or Arabic), Lesson module will take the title of the slide as part of the content and displays both title and content together on Lesson page, and thus, displaying the Page1 or Page2 or Page3 ...Page( n ) etc as the title of the page instead of displaying the real title from the imported slide. this also has been solved.
so thank you so much for your kind help.
It is an important issue for spanish language MOODLE users, but there is a simple pathway to successfully import spanish-language PPT files into Moodle 1.9.x & Mooodle 2.0.2 lessons: You MUST save the powerpoint HTML with a UTF8 encoding. It is cumbersome, but it will save you a lot of time when you basically want to make a Moodle lesson with the text and images you already have inside a powerpoint presentation. The full procedure is described in spanish in the following paragraphs:
Para los usuarios en español que tienen su sitio Moodle codificado en UTF-8 (recomendado), existe el problema de que se trunca la importación de archivos PowerPoint a lecciones cuando las transparencias de PowerPoint tienen eñes y letras acentuadas (á,é,í,ó,ú).
La solución es simple: Se requiere editar las opciones de PowerPoint que grabe los archivos con codificación UTF8, en lugar de la que normalmente usa por default.
Abre tu presentación. En PowerPoint 2003 elige HERRAMIENTAS, luego OPCIONES, en GENERAL elige OPCIONES WEB, En CODIFICACION cambia la que estaba por Unicode (UTF-8). Guarda la presentacion como páginas web y luego ZIPea el directorio donde están todas las imágenes, sube el archivo zip y funciona como magia.
En PowerPoint 2007 tienes que navegar un poco más para elegir las mismas opciones.
Finally, (the new) Office 2010 will not allow you to save your powerpoint presentation into HTML. Work-arounds do exist, but it is easier and cheaper to use LibreOffice instead. You can also use a Virtual Machine (VMWare, VirtualBox, etc) with the old (user-friendly) Office 2003 installed.
you are welcome
