How to Use LaTeX Figures in a Powerpoint Presentation

There are three ways that I know of to add Latex images in Powerpoint:

• Using Texpoint (link): Its probably the most user-friendly way to insert latex figures in powerpoint. It creates a new menu item called TexPoint. If you chose "TexPoint->New Tex Display", it opens a window in which you can write latex source. It then runs latex in the background and creates a picture of the output in the current slide.

• Using EPS figures: Powerpoint has the ability to open eps files. You can write a tex file like this:

  \documentclass{slides}\pagestyle{empty} \begin{document} ... \end{document}

  In the place of the dots insert any latex source you want. Then create the corresponding postscript and open it with GSview. Then chose from the menus "File->PS to EPS", make sure that you check "Automatically calculate Bounding Box" and save it as an EPS file. Then, in Powerpoint, click "Insert->Picture->From File..." and open the EPS file.

  Unfortunately Powerpoint doesn't render EPS files very nicely.

• Using ps2png.py (tar.gz): Again make a single page postscript file as before. Run the script:

  ps2png.py ./filename.ps

  It will create a .png image file in the same directory. You can open it directly from Powerpoint.

  Note: this script was written to run under Cygwin, using Python, and it requires Ghostscript 8.0 for decent results. Minor modifications are needed to make it run under other operating systems.