powerpoint (especially presenter) should display fonts better

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It's almost sick how much better the Presenter Tool is on Macintosh's
PowerPoint and OS X. In Windows, it's good-but-not-good-enough to be able to
see slides and click directly to them when you can't read the letters or
words because they haven't been rasterized (is that the right word?) well.
Is it related to font smoothing? Powerpoint not making full use of the
graphics card? I.e., is it hardware or software related?

Another small thing is how you can't jump to a slide by pressing the slide
number and then pressing enter (which can be done on a Mac, or in
OpenOffice's Impress). Apparently the Powershow add-in allows you to do
this, but it seems silly that it's not built in to PowerPoint for windows
when it is in the mac version.

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Another small thing is how you can't jump to a slide by pressing the slide
number and then pressing enter

Sure you can, at least if you're in slide show view. Possibly focus needs to
be on the monitor that's displaying the slides, though, if you're using
Presenter view. I don't have the setup to try this at the moment.
 
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Steve Rindsberg said:
Sure you can, at least if you're in slide show view. Possibly focus needs to
be on the monitor that's displaying the slides, though, if you're using
Presenter view. I don't have the setup to try this at the moment.
You're right, focus needs to be on the monitor that's displaying the slides.
Thanks for the info. However (sorry for getting so nitpicky), because
clicking on the presenter (eg the slider for the thumbnails) takes the focus
away from the display monitor, that means I have use alt-tab a whole lot. In
any case, it's a good enough workaround for that problem, I guess.

Now I'm happily down to my original complaint about how poorly PowerPoint
shrinks fonts. I opened the presentation in Impress, which does a fine job
at least to 4 slides across in its slide sorter (equivalent to 80% zoom).
 
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Steve Rindsberg

Ed needtouse2oses said:
You're right, focus needs to be on the monitor that's displaying the slides.
Thanks for the info. However (sorry for getting so nitpicky), because
clicking on the presenter (eg the slider for the thumbnails) takes the focus
away from the display monitor, that means I have use alt-tab a whole lot. In
any case, it's a good enough workaround for that problem, I guess.

No problem, that doesn't strike me as being nitpicky at all. It'd be much handier
if you could just enter the number and be done with it.
Now I'm happily down to my original complaint about how poorly PowerPoint
shrinks fonts. I opened the presentation in Impress, which does a fine job
at least to 4 slides across in its slide sorter (equivalent to 80% zoom).

Ah well. If they gave us everything, there'd be no room for somebody else to do
it better, or we'd have nothing to ask Santa for in the next version, I suppose.

(IOW, I don't know of anything that'll help with this one)
 

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