Powerpoint and postscript printer

[Jules]

We have a new Xerox Phaser 7300 printer on our network.
It uses a postscript driver. When we send a print job to
the printer we have the following problem. We have several
graphics on each slide. It appears that the box around the
graphics are larger than the graphics due to the irregular
shape of the graphics. When you click on a graphic you can
see the dotted line box extends far past the actual
graphic. When we print to the new printer we get a bunch
of white space on the page. It looks as though the printer
is cutting off the image but it is actually printing the
empty space in the box surrounding the image.
When we print with the standard PCL driver this does not
happen but the image quality is poor. Any Ideas? Do we
need to modify these images so there is no "empty" space
around them?

 

[Steve Rindsberg, PPTMVP]

We have a new Xerox Phaser 7300 printer on our network.
It uses a postscript driver. When we send a print job to
the printer we have the following problem. We have several
graphics on each slide. It appears that the box around the
graphics are larger than the graphics due to the irregular
shape of the graphics. When you click on a graphic you can
see the dotted line box extends far past the actual
graphic. When we print to the new printer we get a bunch
of white space on the page. It looks as though the printer
is cutting off the image but it is actually printing the
empty space in the box surrounding the image.
When we print with the standard PCL driver this does not
happen but the image quality is poor. Any Ideas? Do we
need to modify these images so there is no "empty" space
around them?

To help understand this, what happens if you put one of these images on a
slide with nothing else but a blue background or a blue rectangle sent to
the back? In other words, blue-filled rectangle with your image atop it?
Do you get a white area around the "live" part of the graphic or ...??

Are these EPS graphics? If so, can you convert them to some other format?
PowerPoint is ... I'm feeling charitable, I won't say it -- leave it that it
doesn't get on well with EPS.

Try WMF or EMF if these are vector graphics; PNG if not.