Text in box misalign when PPTX files openopened on Mac with PPT 2008

[Bram]

Version: 2008 Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) Processor: Intel When opening a presentation in PPT 2008 for Mac made on a XP machine with PPT 2007, text is often misaligned. Text is made as a seperate box laying on top of a box. Any suggestion ??

Regards

Bram

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

Version: 2008 Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) Processor:
Intel When opening a presentation in PPT 2008 for Mac made on a XP
machine with PPT 2007, text is often misaligned. Text is made as a
seperate box laying on top of a box. Any suggestion ??

Start by making sure that the font used on the Win PC is also available
on the Mac.

It also helps if you use text alignment settings that are less
sensitive to minor size shifts. For example, set the text to be center
justified and set the text box alignment to middle/center (or whatever
the correct wording is). That way size changes are distributed in both
directions.

 

[Jim Gordon Mac MVP]

Start by making sure that the font used on the Win PC is also available
on the Mac.

It also helps if you use text alignment settings that are less
sensitive to minor size shifts. For example, set the text to be center
justified and set the text box alignment to middle/center (or whatever
the correct wording is). That way size changes are distributed in both
directions.

To pile on what Steve said.... make sure the font on both computers is
not only the same name, but is the same version from the same source.

-Jim

 

[Bram]

> > Version: 2008 Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) Processor:
> > Intel When opening a presentation in PPT 2008 for Mac made on a XP
> > machine with PPT 2007, text is often misaligned. Text is made as a
> > seperate box laying on top of a box. Any suggestion ??

>
> Start by making sure that the font used on the Win PC is also available
> on the Mac.
>
> It also helps if you use text alignment settings that are less
> sensitive to minor size shifts. For example, set the text to be center
> justified and set the text box alignment to middle/center (or whatever
> the correct wording is). That way size changes are distributed in both
> directions.
>
> [/QUOTE]

Hi,

Thanks for this.
Work this on out; having a hard time understanding why the same program on a different platform can't do repoduce the saem basic tasks !!

Bram

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

Hi,

Thanks for this.
Work this on out; having a hard time understanding why the same
program on a different platform can't do repoduce the saem basic
tasks !!

"on a different platform" ... there's your answer. ;-)

Porgrams don't handle fonts themselves, they hand the task off to the
OS. Mac and Windows render fonts in subtly different ways, which can
result in slight spacing/size changes.