Embedding a slide presentation in a page
Asked by Client Eric Hertenstein:

Hi there! Can anyone recommend the best way to embed a PDF slide presentation in an Atlassian page? Not a thumbnail to download, but actually embedding the PDF, so that you can run through all its pages in order, like, you know, a slide presentation.

Oh, and right now I'm using the 'PDF' Macro, but [this documentation says that it's going away](https://confluence.atlassian.com/conf69/view-file-macro-950285064.html#pdf) --- and also, it doesn't include parameters to adjust the size and shape, which is really what I'm searching for.

Thanks,

Eric


Answers:
author: Daniel Wong
body: Hi Eric,

If you followed the announcement on the View File Macro reaching end of life, there's actually a link that explains how to present PDF within the page itself.

You can find the documentation for this here - <https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/display-files-and-images-245827130.html>

You have to click on the PDF to start the preview mode as it should work like a presentation.

comments: author: Client Eric Hertenstein
body: Hey Daniel --- thanks for responding!

As it happens, I did follow it, and I did try the display files and images route. However, I would rather there was a way to embed the slideshow directly in the page, rather than having to click a link to open it. At any rate, the point was moot, because at 36 slides, my slideshow's apparently too long for the display files and images feature to handle it.

So . . . any other macros out there that can display the PDF in full without downloading or preview mode?


author: Daniel Wong
body: Yeah 36 slides is a bit large. Unfortunately I don't know of any other macros out there that can do it. A quick search of the marketplace mostly has macros for customising PDF exports.

What's your use case for presenting such a large PDF in Confluence?


author: Client Eric Hertenstein
body: It's a training presentation --- basically a lot of screenshots with captions and arrows and such. It's 36 slides because, you know, there are a lot of steps in the process. Anyway, in exploring our options, we felt like slides would be better than a several-meters-tall article people had to scroll through, and we wanted to still keep it in the same hierarchy as other more standard article documentation, and as a standalone page (as opposed to a list of files).

If preview/download is the only other option, I'll just stick with the soon-to-be-deprecated PDF macro. But thanks for your searching, it's most kind of you to look.

Eric


author: Daniel Wong
body: If you're building out a training presentation, I would suggest splitting them out to several pages. It's a lot more work to get it setup, but in the long term it will be more beneficial to have Confluence pages for the training instead of one giant PDF. This would help especially if you have a change in step 5 of 30, rather than uploading the whole PDF again, you could just modify that page or the content of a sub page with full version control.

Take a look at a few examples below that could help you style your training presentation to have a proper flow:

Atlassian example - <https://confluence.atlassian.com/get-started-with-confluence-cloud/before-you-start-navigate-confluence-934720153.html>

(Add-on) Adaptavist Content Formatting Macro - Progress bar to navigate between which part of the training you're in - <https://www.adaptavist.com/doco/display/CFP/Progress+Bar>


author: Shree Lekha Ramanathan
body: Hi ,  

I'm from Zoho Show and I believe , our add-on , **Zoho Show for Confluence Cloud** , would be a one stop solution for your requirements. With Zoho Show , you can create, import existing pptx files , edit , manage and embed them in your confluence pages , with no need to switch between apps and maintain multiple user accounts.   

Presentations embedded in your pages have navigable controls and full-screen option.   

We have rich set of options to transform your numbers to beautiful charts and infographics.   

Give it a try and let us know your thoughts.  

Would love to hear more from you.  
You can write to us at show-confluence@zohoshow.com  


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