Ugly EPS pictures in PowerPoint

[Gabriel Nivasch]

I have a PPT presentation in which I inserted many EPS pictures
(Insert -> Picture -> From File). They look sort of ugly on screen:
Instead of having smooth lines with grayed-out edges (the way things
look in Adobe Acrobat, for example), the pictures are jaggy and in
B/W.

Of course, this is very annoying because postscript graphics are
supposed to look pretty!

Is there a way to solve this?

Gabriel

 

[TAJ Simmons]

Gabriel,

Probably what you are seeing is a "thumbnail or preview bitmap" of the eps file.

When you print the slide containing the eps file to a postscript printer....it should (hopefully) send the eps data to
the postscript printer for a nicely rendered image.

PowerPoint does not know how to display an eps file on the screen.

Your best best is to import the eps into some other software first (photoshop / corel / illustrator / etc), then export
the image as a PNG or WMF (windows metafile)

Cheers
TAJ Simmons
microsoft powerpoint mvp

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[Bill Dilworth]

An excellent program that can do batch conversions of EPS to PNG/JPG/BMP
(but not WMF) is IrfanView. It is available free online and is a rather
useful tool.


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Gabriel,

Probably what you are seeing is a "thumbnail or preview bitmap" of the eps file.

When you print the slide containing the eps file to a postscript

printer....it should (hopefully) send the eps data to

the postscript printer for a nicely rendered image.

PowerPoint does not know how to display an eps file on the screen.

Your best best is to import the eps into some other software first

(photoshop / corel / illustrator / etc), then export

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

I have a PPT presentation in which I inserted many EPS pictures
(Insert -> Picture -> From File). They look sort of ugly on screen:
Instead of having smooth lines with grayed-out edges (the way things
look in Adobe Acrobat, for example), the pictures are jaggy and in
B/W.

That's normal. EPS graphics are really only meant for printing to PS printers,
not for viewing. They include an optional preview which might be b/w or color
and might be at low or higher resolution. The preview is what you get on
screen and on non-PS printers.

If possible, re-make the EPS graphics with a higher resolution preview image.

Or if your real need is screen shows rather than printing, use a different
format for your graphics.

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Steve Rindsberg, PPT MVP
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