Exporting to Powerpoint

[Paul Davis]

Although pdf may appear ok superficially on-screen, I believe that it 
will print poorly.  Office doesn't handle the pdfs correctly.  TIF 
works, but generates a huge file.  PNG seems to work pretty well.  I've 
attached a PP slide with 3 images of the same thing, all exported from 
OG.  The first is PDF.   The next is a PNG, and then a TIF (on bottom). 
  I shrunk both the PNG and TIF to 25% after inserting them. The file 
sizes were  20 KB, 92 KB, and 4.1 MB, respectively.
The pdf may look fairly good on screen, but prints blurry.  The others 
look good both on screen and printed with an inkjet printer. That's the 
same experience i've had with Word.

]P.S., I don't know whether the list server will accept the Power Point 
slide.


On Mar 19, 2004, at 1:41 PM, Alan Leslie wrote:

> I'm exporting to PDF and inserting it as a picture from file - it 
> seems to work nicely.
>
> Alan
>
> Andrew LaCroix wrote:
>
>> Hi there,
>>
>> Apologies for the newbie question...
>>
>> I am intending to use OmniGraffle primarily for Powerpoint and Word.  
>> I put together a nice slide the other day and found that I had to 
>> save the file as TIFF in order to export properly.  But there were a 
>> couple of problems:
>>
>> - the file was enormous (~7MB)
>> - the text was quite blurry when viewed in PP, almost too much 
>> smoothing.
>>
>> I figured out a workaround, which was to export the TIFF file with no 
>> text, and then add the text once in PP.  But that was a pain and I'd 
>> rather do everything in OG.
>>
>> Does anyone have some advice on exporting?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Andrew
>>
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