Saving slides as PDF file?

[pete]

I'm having a b**ch of a time trying to get my slides to look right
when I save them out to PDF format. Any tips on the best settings in
Acrobat for the conversion? I can't seem to get the colors to look
right and certain elements from the slides look strange in the PDF
version.

 

[Chirag]

Look at Prep4PDF at http://www.pptools.com/prep4pdf/ - it does a better job
of making PDFs from PowerPoint presentations.

- Chirag

PowerShow - View multiple PowerPoint slide shows simultaneously
http://officeone.mvps.org/powershow/powershow.html

 

[pete]

Steve, PPT 2003. Acrobat 8 professional (CS3). I usually just do the
automatic "convert to pdf" within the PPT interface, but I've also
tried "save as" and played around with the settings.YES! The colors
look DULLER! If I do the exercise with the blue you suggested, the
blue in the pdf looks sort of grey/purplish to the eye, and if I do a
screen capture of that pdf file and paste into Photoshop and select
the color, it comes out as RGB 67, 86, 155. Weird, huh?

By "strange" I mean the slide looks kind of bitmappy and jagged
instead of smooth.

 

[pete]

Steve, PPT 2003. Acrobat 8 professional (CS3). I usually just do the
automatic "convert to pdf" within the PPT interface, but I've also
tried "save as" and played around with the settings.YES! The colors
look DULLER! If I do the exercise with the blue you suggested, the
blue in the pdf looks sort of grey/purplish to the eye, and if I do a
screen capture of that pdf file and paste into Photoshop and select
the color, it comes out as RGB 67, 86, 155. Weird, huh?

By "strange" I mean the slide looks kind of bitmappy and jagged
instead of smooth.

 

[pete]

THANKS Steve I will play with those settings. I noticed that the
images that appear bitmappy and jaggedy are mostly some logos that (in
the PowerPoint file) were jpgs. At 100% View (and anything under that)
in Acrobat, the images look jaggedy. If I go up to about 120-125% View
in Acrobat, those same logos look great.

 

[pete]

weird, when I uncheck smooth images it gets worse (they look jaggedy
even at 125%). checking or unchecking smooth line doesn't seem to
help. all I want is for it to look normal (smooth) at 100%. thanks for
your input!!!! still scratching my head.

 

[pete]

originally vector created in illustrator, brought over to photoshop -
pasted as pixels, saved as jpeg, inserted into PPT. All my other
images (i.e. jpegs directly form photoshop that didnt start as vector)
are fine. It's just the images described above. I've experimented with
dozens of settings with the images from illustrator to photoshop to
ppt and so far no luck. it's funny that if I insert an image into PPT
and leave it at the original size, it looks fine at 100% in the pdf,
but any view smaller (i.e. 90%, 80% 70%) creates the jaggedys.

 

[pete]

so far the only thing that seems to come close to displaying a
jaggedless image on screen in pdf with these problem images is to save
them out of photoshop as GIF files, - selective, dither, diffusion,
MUCH higher size than I need (like 23 inches width when all I need is
something like 8, 72 dpi). I dont seem to get any jaggy's when I do
that, insert into PPT, and convert to PDF... so far...