pixel.pot

[Guest]

Hello

Has anyone experienced difficulties with printing slides using the pixel.pot
template in Powerpoint 2003? I have tried sending several different
presentations using this template to different postscript printers and they
fail even when there is nothing on the slide. A user here wanted a large
poster fora conference tomorrow and the only way I could get this to print
was to reconstruct the background!!!

Thanks, Mary

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

Hello

Has anyone experienced difficulties with printing slides using the pixel.pot
template in Powerpoint 2003? I have tried sending several different
presentations using this template to different postscript printers and they
fail even when there is nothing on the slide. A user here wanted a large
poster fora conference tomorrow and the only way I could get this to print
was to reconstruct the background!!!

It uses gradient transparency, which simply doesn't work when PPT prints to
Postscript. Shame on the designer for not fixing this.

Easy fix:

Click the background in Slide Master view and Ungroup.

Select the big semi-transparent rectangle on the left and the group of square
"pixels" and choose Edit, Copy.

Choose Edit, Paste Special, As PNG.

Delete the two shapes you selected and copied before, move the pasted PNG into
the place that the shapes occupied and send it to the back.

Select the blue rectangle behind the title text and send that to back.

Voila. Watch it print. <g>

 

[Guest]

Hello

Has anyone experienced difficulties with printing slides using the pixel.pot
template in Powerpoint 2003? I have tried sending several different
presentations using this template to different postscript printers and they
fail even when there is nothing on the slide. A user here wanted a large
poster fora conference tomorrow and the only way I could get this to print
was to reconstruct the background!!!

Thanks, Mary