Powerpoint slide to image conversion: text loses anti-aliasing

[drew]

The problem I have with Powerpoint's slide to image export feature is
that any text loses its anti-aliasing in the output image.

What I'm looking for is a wysiwyg powerpoint slide to image file, like
you'd get with a screen-shot of a powerpoint slide. What I'm looking
for is a one-click solution that will convert all the slides of a
powerpoint presentation into images, preferably gif or jpeg.


The big picture:

I'm creating a web-app that will allow a user to comment on powerpoint
slides. An admin user will convert a powerpoint presentaion into
single image files (one image per slide) in a one-click manner using (
_______ ?) Then the image files will be uploaded to a directory, and
my php web app will automatically create an html interface w/ comment
system

Andrew

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

The problem I have with Powerpoint's slide to image export feature is
that any text loses its anti-aliasing in the output image.

Depending on a variety of factors, it sure can get that "The dog ate my
presentation again" look, can't it?

Have a look at our Image Export addin demo. It has several workarounds for the
various problems I know of; worst case, you can have it export at 1600 pixels
or so wide (at which point PPT seems to antialias even 8 point type), then
downsample them in batch with Irfanview or something like that.

http://get.pptools.com

 

[John Langhans [MSFT]]

[CRITICAL UPDATE - Anyone using Office 2003 should install the critical
update as soon as possible. From PowerPoint, choose "Help -> Check for
Updates".]

Hello,

PowerPoint doesn't provide the kind of control that you are looking for
when it comes to controlling the resolution at which slides (and
selections) are exported as bitmaps. There are several workarounds such as
proportionally making the slide area larger (e.g. 20"x15" instead of
10"x7.5") since that doesn't affect slide show at all and only marginally
affects printing (since PowerPoint will automatically scale down the size
of the slide to fit if slide area is larger than print area for selected
printer and paper size). NOTE: In PowerPoint 2003, the maximum resolution
of slides exported as bitmaps is 3072x3072

If you (or anyone else reading this message) think that it is important to
have more control over the quality/resolution at which slides are exported
as bitmaps (without having to resort to workarounds, add-ins or VBA), don't
forget to send your feedback (in YOUR OWN WORDS, please) to Microsoft at:

http://register.microsoft.com/mswish/suggestion.asp

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be implemented by Microsoft. Microsoft receives thousands of product
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John Langhans
Microsoft Corporation
Supportability Program Manager
Microsoft Office PowerPoint for Windows
Microsoft Office Picture Manager for Windows

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