Emergency: some slides black when viewed with viewer

[Chris]

Hi,

Time is of the essence - I'm trying to create a CD for a
wedding this weekend! Any help would be appreciated ...

I created a pps in PP XP (under Win2000 Professional) and
tried to view it with the viewer (I intend to burn the pps
onto CDs along with an AutoRun and the viewer).

The pps is a bunch of photos scanned in and inserted (not
linked) and has music inserted (not linked).

Original file was saved with random transition effects.
More than 1/2 of the slides appeared as black screen. The
remainder showed normally. Slideshow was obviously still
running - music was playing and timing was still there
between slides that were viewable. This was repeatable,
with the same slides showing each time, and the same
slides black each time.

Cycling through the slides manually caused them all to be
viewable. So I ruled out a problem with the pps itself.

I then suspected that some of the transition effects in PP
XP may not be supported by the viewer. So I saved the
file again with no transition effects. This time, all
slides were viewable.

So is this the explanation - don't use random transition
effects in PP XP if you intend the pps to be viewed by the
viewer? If so, can any of the transition effects in PP XP
be used successfully with the viewer? No transition
effects is a little hard on the eyes ...

Thanks,
Chris

 

[Nelson]

You are correct that later versions of PowerPoint
transitions are not completely compatible with PowerPoint
viewer. PowerPoint viewer is PowerPoint 97 viewer. The
article is posted in Microsoft Knowledge Base Article -
285493

 

[Echo S]

Chris, what Sonia says. Also, there's a demo file from Glen on the
animation page of my site -- it has all the 2002 transitions in it, so
you can check in the Viewer to see which work and which don't. URL's in
my signature.

As an aside, PPT 2002 is also known as PPT XP, so you're okay there.