S
Stoney
I am a research scientist in the area of molecular endocrinology at the
National Institutes of Health. I have been composing slides on
Powerpoint that contain graphs, text, and graphics, all on a background
that is constant for all slides and shows through everything but the
actual graph itself. I have been doing this by using KaleidaGraph 4.03
to make the graph (complete with curve fitting, colored bars or points,
and x- and y-axis legends), pasting this into ClarisDraw 1.0v3 (still
one of the best programs for Mac ever invented) to add additional text
and graphics, and then pasting all of this into Powerpoint (Office X;
Office 2004 does not work as well), on either a Mac G5 or G4 laptop
using OS10.4.9 (NOTE: to get a nice clear paste, you have to use
“multilayer selection” and “select all” but then deselect one
unnecessary item, otherwise much of the text comes through pixilated).
However, my days of being able to use ClarisDraw are limited so I have
been using an OS10 graphing program called Intaglio 2.9.3, which also
allows nice conversion of previous ClarisDraw files. The problem is
that with Intaglio, everything that is exported to Powerpoint has a
white background instead of letting the background of the Powerpoint
slide show through around the text and graphics. I have talked to the
people at Intaglio and they say that the problem is mainly that
Microsoft Office currently only supports Apple's graphics formats from
Mac OS 9 and earlier, specifically QuickDraw graphics, which Apple
considers obsolete and has replaced with Quartz. Ideally PowerPoint
should allow the use of PDF as the graphics import format since that's
what Apple has standardized on for Mac OS X, but it doesn't. Does
anybody know a work-around? Failing that, how do we persuade Microsoft
to allow more recent Apple graphic formats?
National Institutes of Health. I have been composing slides on
Powerpoint that contain graphs, text, and graphics, all on a background
that is constant for all slides and shows through everything but the
actual graph itself. I have been doing this by using KaleidaGraph 4.03
to make the graph (complete with curve fitting, colored bars or points,
and x- and y-axis legends), pasting this into ClarisDraw 1.0v3 (still
one of the best programs for Mac ever invented) to add additional text
and graphics, and then pasting all of this into Powerpoint (Office X;
Office 2004 does not work as well), on either a Mac G5 or G4 laptop
using OS10.4.9 (NOTE: to get a nice clear paste, you have to use
“multilayer selection” and “select all” but then deselect one
unnecessary item, otherwise much of the text comes through pixilated).
However, my days of being able to use ClarisDraw are limited so I have
been using an OS10 graphing program called Intaglio 2.9.3, which also
allows nice conversion of previous ClarisDraw files. The problem is
that with Intaglio, everything that is exported to Powerpoint has a
white background instead of letting the background of the Powerpoint
slide show through around the text and graphics. I have talked to the
people at Intaglio and they say that the problem is mainly that
Microsoft Office currently only supports Apple's graphics formats from
Mac OS 9 and earlier, specifically QuickDraw graphics, which Apple
considers obsolete and has replaced with Quartz. Ideally PowerPoint
should allow the use of PDF as the graphics import format since that's
what Apple has standardized on for Mac OS X, but it doesn't. Does
anybody know a work-around? Failing that, how do we persuade Microsoft
to allow more recent Apple graphic formats?