Importing PDF's

[Christopher Bermudez]

I made a presentation to my client of an ad campaign using Powerpoint
X. Using Quark I made the ads saved them as Hi Res pdf's and then
imported them into Office X. They looked Lo Res when viewed. The
pdf's looked very sharp when viewed in Acrobat before importing them.
Does anyone have any ideas where I went wrong?

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

I made a presentation to my client of an ad campaign using Powerpoint
X. Using Quark I made the ads saved them as Hi Res pdf's and then
imported them into Office X. They looked Lo Res when viewed. The
pdf's looked very sharp when viewed in Acrobat before importing them.
Does anyone have any ideas where I went wrong?

It seems to bring in a bitmap representation of the PDF - Acrobat has various
options that let you choose whether to smooth bitmaps or not; PPT always
smooths them. That can ... well, does ... make the image look blurrier than it
might in Acrobat.

Is that what you're seeing, or is it something else?

 

[Matthew Winslow]

BTW...Keynote imports PDF flawlessly. Powerpoint X stinks in comparison. The
transparency features touted when Office X first came on the seen were
destroyed by service pack 1.
Now, transparent graphics in Powerpoint X are ugly.

We¹ve complained numerous times on this news groups, but no fix ever came.

I¹ll NEVER buy 2004 unless they fix X transparency issues first.

 

[Dayo Mitchell]

We¹ve complained numerous times on this news groups, but no fix ever came.

The place to complain is via the Help menu command to send Feedback. That
goes to the people who develop MacOffice, they don't regularly check these
NGs.

DM

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

Office X only imports the preview of a PDF...72 dpi is as good as It gets.
Use Acrobat to convert to PNG or JPEG.

That's one way, and probably the best if you have Acrobat. If all you have is
the free Reader, this explains how to get better quality imports:

Import PDF content into PowerPoint
http://www.rdpslides.com/pptfaq/FAQ00054.htm

It works with Reader 5 and PPT-X. Haven't tried it in later versions of
Reader. Adobe changed some of this stuff around on the PC version; ISTR that
you now use the snapshot tool instead of the Graphics Selection tool, but the
idea's the same.

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

Weve complained numerous times on this news groups, but no fix ever came.

Ill NEVER buy 2004 unless they fix X transparency issues first.

We try to help one another learn to use the software better and/or work around
its limitations here, one user to another. Complaining here can elicit
workaround suggestions and sympathy, but not a fix from MS.

To get the word to them, choose Help, Send Feedback on PowerPoint ...

 

[Matthew Winslow]

Steve,

I understand your point. The problem is...there is NO workaround, other than
to use Powerpoint 2001.

And yes, they know how I feel.

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

I understand your point. The problem is...there is NO workaround, other than

to use Powerpoint 2001.

And I hear ya. Frustrating.

And yes, they know how I feel.

Good ... thanks for taking the time to do that. It helps us all.

 

[Matthew Winslow]

Steve:

Do you know if the transparency display problem has been fixed in 2004?

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

Steve:

Do you know if the transparency display problem has been fixed in 2004?

I don't know, sorry. I haven't seen it yet.