P
Peter
I have a few thousand powerpoint slides from lectures and talks
containing equations. The equations are typed with Scientific
Workplace 5.0 and "copy and paste" inserts these equations as a wmf
picture into powerpoint. The corresponding fonts come with SWP.
During the last few days I installed a new notebook running winxp with
powerpoint 2003 and Scientific Workplace. Now approx. 30% of the
equations are garbled
- interestingly enough, when I "ungroup" the wmf picture with the
equations to convert it into a microsoft drawing in powerpoint, the
all the symbols show correctly, but the whole symbols are shifted
randomly so that the result is useless. Thus powerpoint does know the
fonts and is able to display them properly.
- it could that the problem is related to having had earlier versions
of SWP 3.5 and 4.0 installed on my old notebook, even though the fonts
have not changed (see above).
- what is most amusing is the fact that Staroffice can read all my
powerpoint files and displays the fonts correctly (but distorts some
other drawings etc.). Thus Staroffice is seems more compatible with
powerpoint than powerpoint (?). However, when I save the Staroffice
presentation as a powerpoint file, and reopen with powerpoint, only
the equation which "I clicked with my mouse explicity - but not
editing or converting them" show up in powerpoint correctly. Apart
from the fact that Staroffice increases the ppt file by a factor of
2.5, I cannot click by hand through ten thousands of equations.
If I cannot fix this problem I must go back to my old notebook ... and
die with it.
Peter
containing equations. The equations are typed with Scientific
Workplace 5.0 and "copy and paste" inserts these equations as a wmf
picture into powerpoint. The corresponding fonts come with SWP.
During the last few days I installed a new notebook running winxp with
powerpoint 2003 and Scientific Workplace. Now approx. 30% of the
equations are garbled
- interestingly enough, when I "ungroup" the wmf picture with the
equations to convert it into a microsoft drawing in powerpoint, the
all the symbols show correctly, but the whole symbols are shifted
randomly so that the result is useless. Thus powerpoint does know the
fonts and is able to display them properly.
- it could that the problem is related to having had earlier versions
of SWP 3.5 and 4.0 installed on my old notebook, even though the fonts
have not changed (see above).
- what is most amusing is the fact that Staroffice can read all my
powerpoint files and displays the fonts correctly (but distorts some
other drawings etc.). Thus Staroffice is seems more compatible with
powerpoint than powerpoint (?). However, when I save the Staroffice
presentation as a powerpoint file, and reopen with powerpoint, only
the equation which "I clicked with my mouse explicity - but not
editing or converting them" show up in powerpoint correctly. Apart
from the fact that Staroffice increases the ppt file by a factor of
2.5, I cannot click by hand through ten thousands of equations.
If I cannot fix this problem I must go back to my old notebook ... and
die with it.
Peter