EPS graphics in PowerPoint 2000

[James Cantwell]

I have a problem with EPS graphics in PowerPoint2000. On
our macintosh systems, running Office 98 for Mac, we can
import EPS graphics that have a transparent background,
and they show up in print and on screen with no
background. If we import the exact same EPS files into
PowerPoint 2000 on Win2k systems, the image is reflect
almost in a 'negative' fashion, showing the background box
and ruining the slide....any suggestions?

James

 

[Steve Rindsberg, PPTMVP]

I have a problem with EPS graphics in PowerPoint2000. On

our macintosh systems, running Office 98 for Mac, we can
import EPS graphics that have a transparent background,
and they show up in print and on screen with no
background. If we import the exact same EPS files into
PowerPoint 2000 on Win2k systems, the image is reflect
almost in a 'negative' fashion, showing the background box
and ruining the slide....any suggestions?

EPS graphics are sometimes useful in Windows apps if (and only if) you plan
to print to a PostScript printer or Adobe Acrobat or similar PDF-making
software. Otherwise, you're better off using a different file format - WMF
or maybe a bitmap format like PNG, depending on your graphic.

This isn't peculiar to PowerPoint - it's just the way EPS works in Windows
in most apps.

 

[Steve Rindsberg, PPTMVP]

Any other file format that might work? I have tried

importing a .png file and all i get is "there is an error
importing the file". ??

On which platform?

Under Windows, anything back to 97 will import PNG w/o problems, so long as
the PNG is correctly made. Not sure of Mac and I no longer have 98
installed to test with.

What app made the PNG? Photoshop's been known to butcher them in some
versions.

 

[Guest]

It is a photoshop PNG from as far as I can tell. I'm
getting these files from my graphics group. What app
would you suggest we use to create the PNG file?

 

[Steve Rindsberg, PPTMVP]

It is a photoshop PNG from as far as I can tell. I'm

getting these files from my graphics group. What app
would you suggest we use to create the PNG file?

It was only one or two versions of PNG that caused problems, and that was
more likely to be display problems than inability to insert the file.
Current versions of PShop should be fine, I'd think. But have they done
anything unusual? Saved as CMYK (shoot, CAN png do cmyk?) or something
along those lines?

What other image editing apps do you have? Try opening the PNG in anything
and Save As to a new name. See if that helps.