Electric Rain - PowerPoint to Silverlight WPF XAML Converter & RAViX 3D Vector Rendering Engine

Electric Rain has just licensed its PowerPoint to XAML (WPF and Silverlight) Converter Technology to Microsoft and is now making the technology available on a broader level to other software companies. Below is a screen shot of the converter application, the sample converted Silverlight presentation to view in your browser, along with the original PowerPoint file. A trail version is not yet available.

Electric Rain PowerPoint-to-XAML Silverlight Converter Feature List:

Convert a PowerPoint 2007 presentation into XAML Slides and Shapes that works on Microsoft’s Windows Presentation Foundation 3.5 and Silverlight 2.0 clients.
Convert Shapes into XAML equivalents for images, text, and drawings as PNG’s. Also supports videos to videos, and PowerPoint ink to WPF / Silverlight static ink. All other shape types can be converted to image equivalents.
Support for PPTX or PPT file format conversions (must have PowerPoint 2007 and .NET 3.5 installed).
Renders all effects to PNG while preserving very accurate layout information.
Supports most common set of “wipe” animations for shapes, aka custom animations (i.e. scale, rotate, motion paths) of the priority animations.
Renders a custom build animation within a slide (i.e. render a specific diagram animation within a slide in XAML).
Ability to render text as PNG for best fidelity retention (next version will include a full vector text implementation).
Remove/Re-add specific shapes/backgrounds from slides before final conversion.
Export slides to loose XAML, Visual Studio solution file (SLN) for further editing or asset re-use in Microsoft Blend or other XAML editors / players, or as self-contained Silverlight XAP / WPF EXE files.
XAML based slide player included with both WPF and Silverlight.
“One-click” export all button that will convert all slides to XAML files (WPF or Silverlight).
Ability to p ick and choose specific slides for conversion through a visual interface sample app.
Supports fade animations, visibility toggles, scale, move, rotate and motion path build animations.
Supports fade slide transitions as default.
Preview animations before exporting via the player code used within the sample app provided.
Original PPTX overlay allows user to see how accurate the conversion is compared to a picture of the original slide.
Render and retain layout animation transitions.
Set target output resolutions of PNG's..
Download this feature list here.

Licensing & Platforms Availability:
Electric Rain is actively licensing the PowerPoint to Silverlight & WPF XAML Converter Technology. We don't currently license the sample application for indivdual client use, but can perform conversion services for large projects (inquire if interested).:

Written completely in C# code and is a 100% .NET 3.5 managed sample application / code.
Licensing is available as compiled libraries or source code with API. Includes sample standalone converter application and previewer and UI, and exported XAML slide player..

If you are interested in learning more about the technology and/or how to license it for use in your products / services, please complete this Technology Licensing Questionnaire and email it along with your questions to Mike Soucie msoucie@erain.com.