Re: [WinMac] PowerPoint98 --> Web

Bruce Johnson(johnson[at]Pharmacy.Arizona.EDU)
Sat, 03 Oct 1998 09:16:17 -0700

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Marc Bizer wrote:
>
> Hi everyone,
>
> Has anyone had much success with the "Save as HTML" feature in
> PowerPoint 97 for Windows or PP 98 for the Mac? It appears to save
> individual slides as entire graphics, which means that text looks terrible
> in one's web browser.

Yeah, that's the way PP does it which is _absolutely_ useless. But with care
the text need not look terrible...experiment with different font sizes and colors.

> In addition, someone noted a while ago the best graphics format to
> use for the best cross-platform image quality. Was it encapsulated
> postscript? I converted all images to that format using GraphicConverter on
> the Mac, but when I converted my PowerPoint presentation to HTML, none of
> the graphics appeared!
>

EPS is the best for transferring graphics cross platform for apps that support
EPS. Web browsers do not, which is why they all disappeared. You need to use
GIF or JPEG images for the web.

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