PowerPoint Integration into Lectora

I use the integrator all the time for the text part. I don't for the graphics and the drawings because there are problems. With Lectora 2006 and PowerPoint 2003, I can set the font size to 10 in both and it comes over as 10 point thru the integrator OR via copy paste. NO PROBLEM.Now where the rub is when your Lectora title page size is smaller than 1024. Then, the integrator shrinks everything down. Here is the relatively simple workaround that I use. Convert to a full size 1024 screen. Then copy and paste the pages into my regular title. Works perfect! No change in text size!What I do is snap a blank page of my target title and put it in Powerpoint as background. This gives a thin line around the available page space. My title is 778x510. I use full PowerPoint slide size. The extra space is used by me and the SMEs to make notes on without incringing on the actual page mock-up. Just before conversion, I make a copy of the title, delete all the notes, background, page numbering, and graphics. Why the graphics? Because I really don't like what the integrator's choices. They work for pictures but not very well for drawings. After I have the pages copied into my final title, I add sections and section headers with TOCs. Then I go back to the original powerpoint and copy the images over. You may not be so picky re. the pictures, but the drawings are almost a must. See below for my workaround.As to image names, I used to worry about those a lot when I started. Not any more. I do name the images that I use over and over so I can find them. But the ones that appear on just one or two pages, I don't worry about. When the pages follow each other, I copy and paste in to the next page so the HTML will not have to load the image twice but I don't get anal about it.Images: Bitmaps are fine for one or two images. Just know they can be huge. One for an entire page may be several meg vs 50K for a gif! For pictures, I copy and paste as jpgs or gifs depending on the number of colors. I have many screen shots with just 5 colors and a full screen goes over just fine as a .gif and takes only 20-30k. Now, drawings are a bit more difficult. If they are all rectangular, no curved or angular lines (arrows, triangles), I copy and paste as a .gif. Looks great if you haven't used some kind of gradient. If my drawings have rounded edges or shading (gradients), I copy and paste into Fireworks. Make sure I have index transparency turned on and then save as a .gif. Fireworks does a nice job of dithering the edges so they look smoother. My client is happy with the result. Of course, Flash produces nice vector graphics but that is another whole learning curve I don't have time for right now.