"Powerpoint is NOT a design application"
pokie (1198 pencils) | Fri, 2007-09-28 13:58Whose signature said that?
I am running into a wall. I am designing pie charts, graphs, and all that fancy stuff for the President of our company. Super fancy, 3D pie charts. These are for a Powerpoint Presentation. The problem that I am running into is that I'm saving them as a PNG-24 (they have a drop shadow that I'd like to preserve).
When we place said PNG in Powerpoint, my drop shadow turns into a dither! This is both on my mac and their PC. What's up with that? My quick fix is that they should just give me the background that they are wanting to use and I'll just have it already placed for them. Any other suggestions? I can't figure out why this is happening... you know, beside the fact that, "Powerpoint is not a design application". ;)
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That would be me. :)
Found a great article on getting around Powerpoint's horrible shadow rendering:
http://www.hypocritical.com/blog/2006/06/powerpoint-pain-point-drop-shadows.asp
I wonder if you shouldn't design your slides in InDesign and export them as jpgs for powerpoint? ( he he)
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Powerpoint is not a design application
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Dirt and Rust
powerpoint was the death of alot of good Director designers/coders. *sigh*
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Hence my sig and hatred of the app... :-|
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Powerpoint is not a design application
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Dirt and Rust
you a former director/lingo user??
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No, but I've seen how the 'absolute power' of powerpoint (I'm a designerrrr) corrupts sales and managment 'absolutely'. :)
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Powerpoint is not a design application
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Dirt and Rust
if you're on a mac, switch to keynote. it's not the best, but its far better then no-POWER-mis-POINT-ed
just a thought that might help.
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I actually posted something to the critique a while back that I made in Keynote just to see if anyone noticed.
Nobody did.
;o)
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