Hi Prathvi, Sorry, I don't know anything about Powerpoint, but I doubt it. I know that years ago people used to first make a movie file with Chimera and then put the pre-made movie in their Powerpoint, but it would not be interactive.
Personally I would just make a ChimeraX session and then put a link in the Powerpoint to the session file, which (maybe?) if you click it would start the ChimeraX session. I make all my presentations in HTML and do something like that, but I don't use Powerpoint. Even starting ChimeraX may take more time than you want, so another approach I've taken in the past is just to have the session already started and simply put a slide in the presentation that reminds me to change apps and show the already-started ChimeraX session.
I hope this helps, Elaine ----- Elaine C. Meng, Ph.D. UCSF Chimera(X) team Resource for Biocomputing, Visualization, and Informatics Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry University of California, San Francisco
On Mar 8, 2024, at 6:37 AM, Prathvi Singh via ChimeraX-users chimerax-users@cgl.ucsf.edu wrote:
Hi Elaine,
I was wondering whether it it possible (either directly or via a plugin) to open a UCSF chimera/chimeraX window within a Microsoft powerpoint slide so that I can open a PDB file directly within the slide and perform different types of operations (showing distance between 2 atoms which someone from the audience demanded to know, for example)?
This way, I would be able to satisfy the doubts of the audience without breaking the flow of the presentation.
Thank you,
Prathvi Singh, Research Fellow, Department of Biological Sciences & Bioengineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur-208016