powerpoint / HP printer driver problem

[Pam Nance]

I had this same problem...Microsoft blames HP and HP has no new driver downloads to correct it. BUT, there is a way to "fix" it...just change your default printer to anything else, and when you need to print, just select your HP printer.

 

[Frank Witteman]

Hi,

I have a (possible) related problem with PDF "printing" cannot convert my
big PowerPoint 2003 slide to PDF (or save in jpg format in the original
PowerPoint scale for that matter). I use WindowsXP prof. SP3

I created a blank (deleted all master place holders) slide (canvas) 53 wide
x 22 inches high and imported a picture (PNG) slightly smaller than the
slide. I then annotated that slide, grouped (or ungroup gives the same bad
results) saved the PPT file and tried to create a PDF file either printing
to PDF (Acrobat Prof. 8.01). The preview when selecting Custom Page size
(PDF) and 53 x 22 inch shows (cropped) portrait (wrong) and when I reverse
the paper size to 22 x 52 (still in landscape), preview is OK but when I
print all the annotations in PDF are wrong with a bad font.

It may be Adobe-PDF related as when I print the slide to HP Designjet it
prints OK. On the other hand if I save from PPT to PNG or JPG the files are
scaled down by 50% (half the PPT size). I used, save as, print to as well
as the PDF macro button in PPT.

Any suggestions, anyone tried to convert large PPT2003 files to PDF (custom
page size)?

Thanks

Frank Witteman


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[Frank Witteman]

Hi Steve,

I am doing that in landscape by swapping the width with the length in PDF
and I tried all different paper sizes (incl. A0) always larger or equal to
PPT page size and reversed the width with the length, tried log paper format
in PDF and that does not look too bad but not wide enough (about 18") so it
gets cropped and again annotations (text boxes) are misaligned and show the
box outline while I have no line in the PDF preview (and also no line set in
PPT), and fonts are blurred. To me all this indicates that there is a
compatibility problem.

I can sent you the ppt file (1,2 mb) if you care to give it a try?

Thanks

Frank

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[Frank Witteman]

Yes, I was thinking to use distiller as we may well have a printing
resolution issue here. Printing to a smaller paper size and enlarging the
PDF is not desirable as I am already at my minimum resolution limit in PPT
(100%) and the latter will make the quality for sure less (seismic records,
very fine resolution).

I believe the HP 130nr is Postscript otherwise I will install another
driver, I will let you know the results, I feel also that the large paper
size is the cause.

Thanks for the tip

Cheers

Frank

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