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John Lockwood
For reasons not relevant here, I used an old Mac OS 9 program (Claris
Impact) running in Classic to create a line art PICT graphic.
I then copied this graphic to the clipboard, and pasted it in to a slide in
PowerPoint 2004.
Unfortunately, PowerPoint 2004 distorts the image by a) altering the aspect
ratio to an exact square (even if the original image was rectangular) and
also b) dramatically reducing the size of the image.
It is possible to manually resize the image to what it should look like
(although doing this by hand it is hard to exactly restore the aspect
ratio).
Now, I state this is a bug in PowerPoint 2004 because the SAME Classic
program, running on the SAME Mac, with the SAME graphic, can paste the
graphic in to PowerPoint v.X WITHOUT a problem. I can then copy it from
PowerPoint v.X and paste it in to PowerPoint 2004 and this time it works.
Impact) running in Classic to create a line art PICT graphic.
I then copied this graphic to the clipboard, and pasted it in to a slide in
PowerPoint 2004.
Unfortunately, PowerPoint 2004 distorts the image by a) altering the aspect
ratio to an exact square (even if the original image was rectangular) and
also b) dramatically reducing the size of the image.
It is possible to manually resize the image to what it should look like
(although doing this by hand it is hard to exactly restore the aspect
ratio).
Now, I state this is a bug in PowerPoint 2004 because the SAME Classic
program, running on the SAME Mac, with the SAME graphic, can paste the
graphic in to PowerPoint v.X WITHOUT a problem. I can then copy it from
PowerPoint v.X and paste it in to PowerPoint 2004 and this time it works.