2007 and Adobe Presenter

[Christine]

Does anyone have any experience using these together?

I spent a lot of time and energy updating an old (developed in 2000)
presentation using SmartArt as well as some other animations.

When we did a test run w/ Presenter (v7.2 or .3) all the SmartArt had a
light grid overlaying it and any text appearing on top of a darker background
(shape w/ bevel and shading) is bordering on unreadable it is so pixellated.

I'm trying to un smart the SmartArt (cutting/pasting back in as a
WMF...which isn't working out too well) to see if that helps any but I was
wondering if anyone else has faced any of these challenges.

Thanks,
Christine

 

[Cosmo]

I've been fortunate to not have to use Presenter (I find it a horrible mess),
so I can't help you with that, but if you want to convert your smartart, you
can copy and use Paste Special to paste it as a picture (either Enhanced
Metafile or Windows Metafile), and I believe that should do what you want.

 

[Christine]

I tried EMF and although it looks just fine in normal view...once I go to
Slide Show all the shapes turn black!

Christine

 

[Cosmo]

I don't know what to say about that, it works fine for me. Did you have any
animation effects on the smartart before you copied it?

 

[Echo S]

That's weird. Like Cosmo says, ungrouping SmartArt usually works fine for
me.

If you want to shoot me one of the slides, I can look at it here and see if
it's just a display issue for you or if it's more universal than that.

Also, SP2 for Office 2007 introduces the ability to ungroup SmartArt on the
right-click menu without having to go through the Paste Special dance. Not
sure if that will help or not, but it might be worth a try.

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