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Ugly EPS pictures in PowerPoint
I have a PPT presentation in which I inserted many EPS pictures
(Insert - Picture - From File). They look sort of ugly on screen: Instead of having smooth lines with grayed-out edges (the way things look in Adobe Acrobat, for example), the pictures are jaggy and in B/W. Of course, this is very annoying because postscript graphics are supposed to look pretty! Is there a way to solve this? Gabriel |
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Gabriel,
Probably what you are seeing is a "thumbnail or preview bitmap" of the eps file. When you print the slide containing the eps file to a postscript printer....it should (hopefully) send the eps data to the postscript printer for a nicely rendered image. PowerPoint does not know how to display an eps file on the screen. Your best best is to import the eps into some other software first (photoshop / corel / illustrator / etc), then export the image as a PNG or WMF (windows metafile) Cheers TAJ Simmons microsoft powerpoint mvp awesome - powerpoint backgrounds, free powerpoint templates, tutorials, hints and tips etc http://www.powerpointbackgrounds.com I have a PPT presentation in which I inserted many EPS pictures (Insert - Picture - From File). They look sort of ugly on screen: Instead of having smooth lines with grayed-out edges (the way things look in Adobe Acrobat, for example), the pictures are jaggy and in B/W. Of course, this is very annoying because postscript graphics are supposed to look pretty! Is there a way to solve this? Gabriel |
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An excellent program that can do batch conversions of EPS to PNG/JPG/BMP
(but not WMF) is IrfanView. It is available free online and is a rather useful tool. -- Bill Dilworth Microsoft PPT MVP Team =============== Please spend a few minutes checking vestprog2@ out www.pptfaq.com This link will yahoo. answer most of our questions, before com you think to ask them. Change org to com to defuse anti-spam, ant-virus, anti-nuisance misdirection. .. .. "TAJ Simmons" wrote in message ... Gabriel, Probably what you are seeing is a "thumbnail or preview bitmap" of the eps file. When you print the slide containing the eps file to a postscript printer....it should (hopefully) send the eps data to the postscript printer for a nicely rendered image. PowerPoint does not know how to display an eps file on the screen. Your best best is to import the eps into some other software first (photoshop / corel / illustrator / etc), then export the image as a PNG or WMF (windows metafile) Cheers TAJ Simmons microsoft powerpoint mvp awesome - powerpoint backgrounds, free powerpoint templates, tutorials, hints and tips etc http://www.powerpointbackgrounds.com I have a PPT presentation in which I inserted many EPS pictures (Insert - Picture - From File). They look sort of ugly on screen: Instead of having smooth lines with grayed-out edges (the way things look in Adobe Acrobat, for example), the pictures are jaggy and in B/W. Of course, this is very annoying because postscript graphics are supposed to look pretty! Is there a way to solve this? Gabriel |
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In article , Gabriel Nivasch
wrote: I have a PPT presentation in which I inserted many EPS pictures (Insert - Picture - From File). They look sort of ugly on screen: Instead of having smooth lines with grayed-out edges (the way things look in Adobe Acrobat, for example), the pictures are jaggy and in B/W. That's normal. EPS graphics are really only meant for printing to PS printers, not for viewing. They include an optional preview which might be b/w or color and might be at low or higher resolution. The preview is what you get on screen and on non-PS printers. If possible, re-make the EPS graphics with a higher resolution preview image. Or if your real need is screen shows rather than printing, use a different format for your graphics. -- Steve Rindsberg, PPT MVP PPT FAQ: www.pptfaq.com PPTools: www.pptools.com ================================================ Featured Presenter, PowerPoint Live 2004 October 10-13, San Diego, CA www.PowerPointLive.com ================================================ |
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