Exporting to PowerPoint Presentation

[Mark Anderson]

On 16/2/06 11:08, "Jonathan Tyzack" <jtyzack at mac.com> wrote:

> I think that what Adam meant is that Adobe Reader can do slideshows,
> so why not just use Adobe Reader in place of PowerPoint, especially
> as the quality of image onscreen is going to be much better than when
> they are using your exported pngs or jpegs inserted into PowerPoint?
> One assumes the people asking for this in Nicholas' original post
> have Reader on their PCs? The only reason I could see them needing to
> use PowerPoint would be if they wanted to use their own slides
> alongside those of the OmniGraffle generated images, together with
> annoying and distracting transitions.

It's easy for those of us with control of our OS/desktop to assume users in
organisations (esp. Gov/Mil/NGO/Charity) have any control over the tools
they may use. They may, for instance use an old Reader (v4 or v5) so offices
in Mali or Cambodia on older kit can read the same as the US/European main
office. So the "...just install/use app X..." type of suggestion albeit well
meant often appears as the opposite to its recipient. No offence meant to an
previous posters on this topic - my observation just an from actual
experience that runs counter to the ideas put forward.

On using PDF export for a PC audience ... I've found it best to
minimise/avoid use of drop shadows in the source Graffle as this seems to
get exported into the PDF in such a way that makes the screen 'flash' as the
page draws, once for the main picture and then once again for the
drop-shadow 'layer'; no idea why. Acrobat/Reader (Win) v7 seems less prone
to show this effect but older (see above) version do get an ugly effect that
detracts from the visual punch of a nice OG diagram.

Hope this helps,

Mark Anderson
Shoantel / PortfolioFAQ