[WinMac] re PowerPoint98 --> Web

Danny Thomas(D.Thomas[at]vthrc.uq.edu.au)
Sun, 4 Oct 1998 17:27:27 +1000

Marc Bizer <mlbizer@mail.utexas.edu> writes
>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.
I hadn't tried this before and you're right - it does seem to save as a
graphic! Pretty sub-optimal, although guaranteed to preserve the look.
Maybe it's a configurable option, but I couldn't be bothered playing any
more

>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!
well I think EPS is the best choice for cross platform/application usage,
eg it is much better than the PICT format when cutting/pasting between Mac
applications with some provisos
  1) EPS is in general non-editable
  2) you only get to see a preview on-screen. The preview is so you
     can apply resizing/cropping operations, but the preview is
     optional. The real quality of EPS only shows up when you
     *print* to a PostScript printer.

EPS is not much use for web-pages, jpeg or tiff are better. Those formats
only handle images, but if your material includes vector graphics (eg lines
with arrows) or text, you might to save as a jpeg at higher resolution than
a monitor screen and go into photoshop or whatever and reduce the dpi. That
has the effect of blurring sharp edges, but better preserves detail and
positioning to a sub-pixel level.

Danny Thomas

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