Saving PowerPoint to PDF Options

[Triggerfu]

Version: 2008 Operating System: Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard) Processor: Intel Issue #1--I am having a heckuva' time figuring out how to save a PowerPoint document to PDF without any 'white' border area showing? I want it to look edge-to-edge. I know this can be done as I have received just such a conversion (PPT to PDF) without any white area showing in the PDF document.

Issue #2--Is there a way to put a page border around the entire slide (like you would in an MS Word document? Also, if this can be done, then how to undo it at any point?

Issue #3--I was able to put a "page border" around a slide by using Draw Table and then drawing the line around the entire slide (page). This produces a thin border around the slide and when you click on it once the edge is slightly highlighted with a vertical line of sorts in the upper left hand corner. When you click on the page again (twice-total) you then see a thick bluish border around the entire perimeter. When this drawn border using Draw Table as the tool it no longer allows you to work (change anything, etc.) within that slide page. How do you eliminate this Table drawn border altogether?

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

Version: 2008 Operating System: Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard)
Processor: Intel Issue #1--I am having a heckuva' time figuring out
how to save a PowerPoint document to PDF without any 'white' border
area showing? I want it to look edge-to-edge. I know this can be
done as I have received just such a conversion (PPT to PDF) without
any white area showing in the PDF document.

There are a couple ways. One is to make sure that your PPT slide size
and the PDF page size you're printing to match, then choose Scale to
fit Paper in the print dialog box. This assumes you're printing to a
PDF driver; I'm not sure what options are open to you with the MacOS
PDF feature. If you can't set the size, then make a PDF, open it in
Reader/Acrobat and note the page size; change the PPT size to match and
see if that helps.

If you have Acrobat, you can crop the PDF to remove any white space in
it.

Issue #2--Is there a way to put a page border around the entire
slide (like you would in an MS Word document? Also, if this can be
done, then how to undo it at any point?

Use the Frame Slides option in the print dialog box when you print.

Issue #3--I was able to put a "page border" around a slide by using
Draw Table and then drawing the line around the entire slide (page).
This produces a thin border around the slide and when you click on
it once the edge is slightly highlighted with a vertical line of
sorts in the upper left hand corner. When you click on the page
again (twice-total) you then see a thick bluish border around the
entire perimeter. When this drawn border using Draw Table as the
tool it no longer allows you to work (change anything, etc.) within
that slide page. How do you eliminate this Table drawn border
altogether?

Don't use a table. Draw a rectangle, set the line color/width to suit
your needs, then set the fill color to None.