Powerpoint to PDF conversion

[Patty S.]

I am involved in a large project of creating posters in Powerpoint (custom
sizing the slides) and converting them to PDF format so they can be printed
out on a plotter (Epson 10000). The posters involve a lot of tables, graphs,
charts, and images as well as text. During the conversion process, these
elements can move around, so that in PDF they may have "bounced" lower,
higher, or to the side, or they may cover text. In addition, the text itself
may have spread beyond the boundaries of its text box. I have found that
copying tables and pasting them as pictures has helped. Does anyone have
other suggestions for avoiding these problems?

Thanks.

 

[Patty S.]

Hi Steve -

Thank you for your reply and I apologize for taking so long to respond -
shows how nutty the workplace has been lately.

Anyway, to answer your questions, I am using Adobe Acrobat 6.0 Standard for
the PPT to PDF conversions. I did not change the proportions of the original
slide, and I kept the width & height measurements the same in both.

I did not try ungrouping the graphics, as keeping them grouped seemed to
keep them from movning around. as much.

One discovery I made was that the person creating the poster used text boxes
on top of text boxes - i.e., instead of drawing a shape (like a box) and then
typing her text in that, she made one text box filled in with a color, then
another text box on top for the actual text. In this case, everything moved
around during the conversion, and some elements hid others.

Thanks for your help.

Patty