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MS Office Forum / General PowerPoint Questions / February 2007Jagged presentation of text/fonts in Powerpoint
Dear Newsgroup, I have a big problem with MS-Word-objects (in fact it are word-tables), that I embedd in a Powerpoint-presantation. I use Powerpoint (V10.6804 SP3) and W2K (but also XP). During development of the slides the writing inside the table looks OK, but when I start the presentation(1024x768 pixel), the writings in Arial 10 (bold) inside of the word-object are strongly jagged and some distances between single letters are bigger than anticipated. Some of the letters are not readable. You may argue, that Arial 10 is to small for presentation; BUT if I write the same text in Arial 10 (bold) for example in the header (text-area) of the slide, the writing is clear (not jagged) during presentation. Any helping idea (without telling me, - not to use so small fonts and - not to use embedded word-objects)? Kind regards Werner Make sure the Word object is set to an equal aspect ratio. To do so, right-click the Word object on the slide, choose Format Object. On the Size tab, set to 100% x 100% (or some other equal proportion). Does that fix it? If not, then copy the Word object, pull the original off the edge of the slide so it won't show in slide show view, right-click, Format Object, and in the Size tab, set to 5% x 5% so it won't throw off the view when you scroll from slide to slide while editing. Now, back to the copy on the slide -- select it and ungroup it until you can't ungroup any more. Does that resolve the problem?  SignatureEcho [MS PPT MVP] http://www.echosvoice.com What's new in PPT 2007? http://www.echosvoice.com/2007.htm Fixing PowerPoint Annoyances http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/powerpointannoy/ > Dear Newsgroup, > [quoted text clipped - 20 lines] > Kind regards > Werner Werner What Echo said ... but also... If you 'un-group' the word table... then the jaggies will go away Cheers TAJ Simmons microsoft powerpoint mvp awesome - powerpoint backgrounds, http://www.awesomebackgrounds.com free powerpoint templates, tutorials, hints, tips and more... > Make sure the Word object is set to an equal aspect ratio. > [quoted text clipped - 35 lines] >> Kind regards >> Werner Dear Echo, dear TAJ Simmons, thank you for your ideas. I am sorry, but both procedures made the look of the Word-objects even worse! As far as I understand, the 'ungrouping' makes a kind of a picture of the word-table. With this font size the developing-screen AND the presentatin - screen (both) look even more jagged. Sorry! Werner > Werner > [quoted text clipped - 49 lines] > >> Kind regards > >> Werner Hmmmm. You might try copying the Word table on the slide and Edit | Paste Special, choose PNG. SignatureEcho [MS PPT MVP] http://www.echosvoice.com What's new in PPT 2007? http://www.echosvoice.com/2007.htm Fixing PowerPoint Annoyances http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/powerpointannoy/ > Dear Echo, dear TAJ Simmons, > [quoted text clipped - 72 lines] >> >> Kind regards >> >> Werner Dear Newsgroup, I found an additional problem with respect to the presentation of slides and jagged text. - If you create a diagram with labeled columns and labeled rows and you just present the produced diagram (not ungrouped or touched in any way), the presentation looks good. - BUT, if you simply copy the whole slide and add a user defined animation that way, that you simply show the diagram on mouse-click, the text (fonts) look jagged. Taking away (deleting) the animation, and the fonts look good again. Do you have any idea, how this can happen?? Kind regards Werner > Dear Echo, dear TAJ Simmons, > [quoted text clipped - 66 lines] > > >> Kind regards > > >> Werner This is actually a known issue -- animated text often gets the jaggies where static text doesn't. The only real resolution is not to use animation. Alternatively, you can often create an image out of the text (or, in your case, the diagram) and animate that. Text in images doesn't usually get jagged. To create an image, use the Paste Special technique I mentioned in my previous post in this thread. SignatureEcho [MS PPT MVP] http://www.echosvoice.com What's new in PPT 2007? http://www.echosvoice.com/2007.htm Fixing PowerPoint Annoyances http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/powerpointannoy/ > Dear Newsgroup, > [quoted text clipped - 97 lines] >> > >> Kind regards >> > >> Werner |
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