Crossing platforms with PowerPoint

Bill Rowe wrote:

On 4/7/06 at 8:47 PM, drdavidrossconsultant.com (David Ross) wrote:

>> I for one am fairly un-impressed with Boot Camp. Who wants to >> reboot a machine?

> You're a Mac office. You've made a nifty PowerPoint presentation. > You want to burn a CD. Now before you send it out to whoever, you > boot up an Intel Mac and see EXACTLY what they would see at the > other end. (Well as exactly as possible.) (Substitute AutoCAD, > Word, whatever for PowerPoint..)

People who boot their Macs into Windows thinking they can tweak a PowerPoint presentation so that it looks right on a colleagues Dell etc running Windows are likely to be disappointed at some point. I've had more than one problem sharing PowerPoint files with colleagues when we were both using the same model machine running the same version of Windows. The problems traced to a difference in the fonts installed on both machines.

But it does expose issues like Mac only graphics formats, file names that make Windows throw up, etc... I work with Architects and they always do this last check before heading off to make the presentation to the city council somewhere. Mainly because many times they are required to use the "provided" computer and/or leave a copy.

Of course the reason for making everyone use the "provide" Windows computer is because so many folks could never get the computer they brought (Windows) to work with the in house projector. :)

On 17 Sep 2006, at 15:36 , Lawrence Kirkendall wrote:
> I encountered then a problem which I have not had for a couple of
> years: that certain photos in my ppt slides would not open, in the
> Windows version of the ppt file.

Short Answer: The Windows Powerpoint doesn't support nearly as many
image formats as the Mac version, which uses Quicktime for image
display. In all likelihood, these images are tiffs. Windows doesn't
read tiffs by default and Windows Powerpoint will not read quciktime
files even if Quicktime is installed. The ONLY way I know of to fix
this is to remove the pictures and re-add them one by one.

Long Answer: nntp://microsoft.public.mac.office.powerpoint

> A possible answer to the last question: when I last had this
> problem, I began to be very careful about how I put photos into ppt
> slides. I now only use "Insert...Picture...From File", never drag-
> and-drop or copy-and-paste. In yesterday's presentation, slides I
> know I prepared in that fashion all worked. The ones in which
> photos did not appear I suspect are from several years back (my
> lectures grow by accretion...), when I used to drag-and-drop o
> rcopy-and-paste a lot. Doing so is a lot more time consuming, since
> it means I must download, (often) re-name, and store somewhere all
> the photos I want to put into ppt slides.

Yep, that is the correct work around for the problem. If you insert
the files it adds the file correctly, converting it to whatever
format ppt will work with. Dragging and dropping will do a
pasteboard copy which the Windoze version doesn't like.

However, I thought they fixed this in Office 2004.

On 19 Sep 2006, at 06:23 , Lynda Ellis wrote:
> Same problem here. Apparently during the nice and easy drag and
> drop of web images that Safari allows, web images are converted to
> TIFF (Mac TIFF that is). This happened with one of my own (gif)
> images. The Mac TIFF is not readable on a PC.
>
> Bad Safari, bad, bad.

You misspelt "Microsoft"


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