OmniGraffle-Users Digest, Vol 9, Issue 18

[Benjamin Amsaleg]

Johan,

The PICT convert bug is in all Office:Win version to date. If ever MS fixes
it, it will be part of Office:Win 2005 or latter, so you will still have
problems with all those Office 97, 2K XP and 2003 out there...

Assuming that you have more time to work things around, you might export
your OG to Visio XML and work your presentation under VPC : Office: Win +
Visio...
Once you get your PPT:Win file and want to move it back to your Mac, it is
best to use PPT:2004 first. On the Mac, PPT:2004 fixed a lot of graphic
conversion issues of previous Office:Win.
Also be aware that PPT:2004 has problem with the way text wrap. You will
have to check your slides... Or use PPT:vX that does not show this behaviour

BAM


> From: Johan Ihrén <johani at autonomica.se>
> Date: Sun, 26 Sep 2004 18:18:40 +0200
> To: Benjamin Amsaleg <bamsaleg at slovaquie.org>
> Cc: <omnigraffle-users at omnigroup.com>
> Subject: Re: OmniGraffle-Users Digest, Vol 9, Issue 18
> 
> 
> On Sep 26, 2004, at 08:44, Benjamin Amsaleg wrote:
> 
>> Johan,
>> 
>> Welcome to the limits that made me suggest for WMF as alternative
>> vector
>> based graphic format. Again, this is the ONLY vector base format that
>> is
>> both supported by Office 2004 MAC and Office:Win
>> Indeed, PICT support in Office:Win has many bugs related to text
>> conversion
>> making graphic including accent not conform on both platform.
>> 
>> I guess now that you produced all those OG and PPT element and are
>> close to
>> your deadline there is only one thing to do: Keynote
> 
> I'm not really close to a deadline. My problem is more one of
> transition strategies. I'm sitting on several large piles of material
> and need to decide what to convert to what.
> 
>> Keynote does convert (poorly but mostly) PPT file. The most
>> interesting part
>> of Keynote is that it PDF support is much better than the one of
>> Office:2004
>> 
>> You might be able to save your work and go forward this way...
> 
> Yep, been there and played with that. Keynote does a passable work of
> importing. The amount of subsequent fixups is manageble.
> Keynote has other drawbacks, though. And in my case I also have to
> interoperate with people that do not touch Keynote, in some cases don't
> even have a Mac, so Keynote is not a working solution. Unfortunately.
> 
>> PS: are you now antoher supporter of WMF export from OG 4?
> 
> I need a solution to the problem of moving graphics OG-->PPT without
> losing quality. To be honest I have not looked carefully to know the
> respective pros and cons with a PICT based solution vs a WMF based one
> other than to make the following observation:
> 
> My present problem (rasterization of PDF) is in PPT (i.e.
> Microsoft-land), not in OG. But I cannot solve it in PPT
> (Microsoft doesn't usually listen to me).
> 
> If you're correct and there are bugs in PPT import of PICT then it
> would seem that I'll still be in a hard place with the need for a fix
> from Microsoft (who doesn't usually listen to me).
> 
> If Microsoft already does know how to treat WMF then the need for a
> fix moves out of PPT and into a functionality request  for OG, for
> which I have infinitely more hope of something actually happening.
> 
> Johan
>