Graphics quality

[Guest]

My wife and I both use Corel Draw to prepare technical diagrams and
PowerPoint to prepare technical presentations. I am using PowerPoint 2002,
and she is using PowerPoint 2003 (she's a newbie convert from using the
slide-show feature of CorelDraw). When I "cut" a diagram from Corel Draw and
"paste" it into a PowerPoint slide, it looks good -- nice resolution, and
when I press "F5" to view the graphic as part of a "Slide Show" it looks
great. However, when my wife "cuts" the exact same diagram from CorelDraw
and "pastes" it into PowerPoint (the exact same presentation file, which I
emailed her), it sometimes looks good, other times not. But importantly,
whenever she presses "F5" to view it on screen for a presentation, then it
looks really crummy. We have tried unsuccessfully to figure out what is
"different" about how I have my software/hardware configured compared to
hers. We both have Dell Laptops (different models though). We both have
1024 x 768 screen resolution set on our machines and "use current resolution"
for the slide show setup. Neither of us is using hardware graphics
acceleration. I even tried "ungrouping" the image on her machine because
sometimes that helps me when I am using custom animations but it didn't help
(probably because we're not using any animations this time).

I tried to look for "resolution" under "help" but I was led into a quagmire
of discussion pages about DPI issues. I don't think those issues are
relevant for us because we're talking about the same graphic and the same
hardware setup.

Any thoughts?

 

[Echo S]

If your wife chooses Edit/Paste Special and selects Windows Metafile or
Enhanced Metafile, does the image look better?

 

[Guest]

Echo,

Thanks for replying. Yes it looks better that way. But then it's not an
OLE object, and she can't double-click it to edit it. That's a pretty big
concession. It takes me back to my original question which is, "What could
possibly be different about the way my software is configured compared to
hers?"

If your wife chooses Edit/Paste Special and selects Windows Metafile or
Enhanced Metafile, does the image look better?

--
Echo [MS PPT MVP]
http://www.echosvoice.com

My wife and I both use Corel Draw to prepare technical diagrams and
PowerPoint to prepare technical presentations. I am using PowerPoint 2002,
and she is using PowerPoint 2003 (she's a newbie convert from using the
slide-show feature of CorelDraw). When I "cut" a diagram from Corel Draw and
"paste" it into a PowerPoint slide, it looks good -- nice resolution, and
when I press "F5" to view the graphic as part of a "Slide Show" it looks
great. However, when my wife "cuts" the exact same diagram from CorelDraw
and "pastes" it into PowerPoint (the exact same presentation file, which I
emailed her), it sometimes looks good, other times not. But importantly,
whenever she presses "F5" to view it on screen for a presentation, then it
looks really crummy. We have tried unsuccessfully to figure out what is
"different" about how I have my software/hardware configured compared to
hers. We both have Dell Laptops (different models though). We both have
1024 x 768 screen resolution set on our machines and "use current resolution"
for the slide show setup. Neither of us is using hardware graphics
acceleration. I even tried "ungrouping" the image on her machine because
sometimes that helps me when I am using custom animations but it didn't help
(probably because we're not using any animations this time).

I tried to look for "resolution" under "help" but I was led into a quagmire
of discussion pages about DPI issues. I don't think those issues are
relevant for us because we're talking about the same graphic and the same
hardware setup.

Any thoughts?

 

[Sonia]

Does she have service pack 1 for Office 2003 installed?
--

Sonia Coleman
Microsoft PowerPoint MVP Team
Autorun Software, Templates and Tutorials
http://www.soniacoleman.com

Echo,

Thanks for replying. Yes it looks better that way. But then it's not an
OLE object, and she can't double-click it to edit it. That's a pretty big
concession. It takes me back to my original question which is, "What could
possibly be different about the way my software is configured compared to
hers?"

If your wife chooses Edit/Paste Special and selects Windows Metafile or
Enhanced Metafile, does the image look better?

--
Echo [MS PPT MVP]
http://www.echosvoice.com

My wife and I both use Corel Draw to prepare technical diagrams and
PowerPoint to prepare technical presentations. I am using PowerPoint 2002,
and she is using PowerPoint 2003 (she's a newbie convert from using the
slide-show feature of CorelDraw). When I "cut" a diagram from Corel Draw and
"paste" it into a PowerPoint slide, it looks good -- nice resolution, and
when I press "F5" to view the graphic as part of a "Slide Show" it looks
great. However, when my wife "cuts" the exact same diagram from CorelDraw
and "pastes" it into PowerPoint (the exact same presentation file, which I
emailed her), it sometimes looks good, other times not. But importantly,
whenever she presses "F5" to view it on screen for a presentation, then it
looks really crummy. We have tried unsuccessfully to figure out what is
"different" about how I have my software/hardware configured compared to
hers. We both have Dell Laptops (different models though). We both have
1024 x 768 screen resolution set on our machines and "use current resolution"
for the slide show setup. Neither of us is using hardware graphics
acceleration. I even tried "ungrouping" the image on her machine because
sometimes that helps me when I am using custom animations but it didn't help
(probably because we're not using any animations this time).

I tried to look for "resolution" under "help" but I was led into a quagmire
of discussion pages about DPI issues. I don't think those issues are
relevant for us because we're talking about the same graphic and the same
hardware setup.

Any thoughts?

 

[Guest]

Sonia,

Yes she has SP1 for Office 2003.

Does she have service pack 1 for Office 2003 installed?
--

Sonia Coleman
Microsoft PowerPoint MVP Team
Autorun Software, Templates and Tutorials
http://www.soniacoleman.com

Echo,

Thanks for replying. Yes it looks better that way. But then it's not an
OLE object, and she can't double-click it to edit it. That's a pretty big
concession. It takes me back to my original question which is, "What could
possibly be different about the way my software is configured compared to
hers?"

If your wife chooses Edit/Paste Special and selects Windows Metafile or
Enhanced Metafile, does the image look better?

--
Echo [MS PPT MVP]
http://www.echosvoice.com

My wife and I both use Corel Draw to prepare technical diagrams and
PowerPoint to prepare technical presentations. I am using PowerPoint
2002,
and she is using PowerPoint 2003 (she's a newbie convert from using the
slide-show feature of CorelDraw). When I "cut" a diagram from Corel Draw
and
"paste" it into a PowerPoint slide, it looks good -- nice resolution, and
when I press "F5" to view the graphic as part of a "Slide Show" it looks
great. However, when my wife "cuts" the exact same diagram from CorelDraw
and "pastes" it into PowerPoint (the exact same presentation file, which I
emailed her), it sometimes looks good, other times not. But importantly,
whenever she presses "F5" to view it on screen for a presentation, then it
looks really crummy. We have tried unsuccessfully to figure out what is
"different" about how I have my software/hardware configured compared to
hers. We both have Dell Laptops (different models though). We both have
1024 x 768 screen resolution set on our machines and "use current
resolution"
for the slide show setup. Neither of us is using hardware graphics
acceleration. I even tried "ungrouping" the image on her machine because
sometimes that helps me when I am using custom animations but it didn't
help
(probably because we're not using any animations this time).

I tried to look for "resolution" under "help" but I was led into a
quagmire
of discussion pages about DPI issues. I don't think those issues are
relevant for us because we're talking about the same graphic and the same
hardware setup.

Any thoughts?

 

[Austin Myers]

I know you've probably done it but I ask anyhow. Do you have the latest
updates for both PowerPoint and your version of Windows (including hardware
updates). Oops one more, how about DirectX?


Austin Myers
MS PowerPoint MVP Team

Solutions to Multimedia in PowerPoint www.pfcmedia.com

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

Thanks for replying. Yes it looks better that way. But then it's not an

OLE object, and she can't double-click it to edit it. That's a pretty big
concession. It takes me back to my original question which is, "What could
possibly be different about the way my software is configured compared to
hers?"

I may have this wrong, but I understood that PPT2003 installs GDI+ (which would
seem to be a Windows Graphic Device Interface Component). That might have
something to do with this.

Do you both also have your copies of Corel Draw patched to current service
releases? Same on both boxes?

 

[Guest]

Steve,

I dont know anything about GDI+. It's interesting that my wife is the one
having problems pasting in a Corel Draw diagram and having it look crummy in
her presentation, and she is much more careful about making sure her
operating system has all the latest updates. She is even using PPT 2003
whereas I am using PPT 2002. However we are both using the same version of
Corel Draw.

 

[Guest]

Austin:

I don't know what DirectX is. I don't think we have that. As I told Steve,
my wife is the one having problems pasting a diagram into PPT and her updates
are more likely to be up-to-date than mine. We both have Dell Laptops and we
are both using the same video/driver setup.

 

[TAJ Simmons]

DirectX is aimed at games users.... but it does seam to have an effect on
powerpoint

home page of direct x
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/directx/default.aspx

download direct x
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/directx/default.aspx?url=/windows/directx/downloads/default.htm

Cheers
TAJ Simmons
microsoft powerpoint mvp

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