Re: [WinMac] PowerPoint98 --> Web

Blake Lange(Blange[at]fec.gov)
Mon, 05 Oct 1998 10:28:27 +0000

On 10/3/98 4:15 PM Bruce Johnson wrote:

>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.

I have used this feature PowerPoint--Saving as HTML--and was puzzled by
how terribly it rendered the pages in a browser. Upon looking at the
parts of the final HTML code and graphic files I found that the graphics
were being scaled by the HTML code. By doing things this way the
conversion process takes place rather quickly because the graphics
manipulation work is not being done then. Instead it is to be done later
by the browser. This is not quite cheating on the part of the code
writers at Microsoft but it does cut corners that shouldn't be cut IMHO.
The disadvantages are that the graphics are larger than they need to be
(causing download times to be too long) and they look bad because web
browsers are not very good at scaling graphics. The good thing about the
process is that it creates a good starting point: it creates all of the
ingredients needed for a pretty nifty portable slide show. If it is a
slide show one plans to use a lot it is probably worth ones while to edit
down the graphics and edit the HTML accordingly, both of which should be
pretty easy to do.

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