[WinMac] Re: Looking to get Mac Powerpoint 4.0 Slides Output

Thomas Roth(tomroth[at]wfubmc.edu)
Fri, 19 Feb 1999 17:05:57 -0500

>Date: Thu, 18 Feb 1999 15:32:35 EST
>From: AEKline@aol.com
>Subject: Looking to get Mac Powerpoint 4.0 Slides Output
>
>Hi list! This is a bit off-topic, but I'm sure I'm not the only 'print'
>person who occasionally puts on a multimedia, slide presentation hat.
>I'm hoping that there is a happy, helpful, MAC, Service bureau slide
>output person on this list, or someone who knows of someone who fits
>that description.
>
>My problem: I finally dumped Aldus Persuasion, even though it's a dandy
>little program) because my 3 local service bureaus finally refused to
>accept my occassional Mac Persuasion 2.1 files for lack of support (they
>are all using PCs).

Mac Persuasion was a better program in many ways despite the few features
that PowerPoint had that it didn't. I learned on 2.1, then later used 3.0
and occassionally version 4.0. I was sorry to see Adobe dropped it.

>As I was getting tired of borrowing a collegue's
>Windows box to use PowerPoint for Office 97 every time I had to make a
>slide, I bought PowerPoint 4.0 for the Mac as recommended, as I was
>assured that the Mac version would produce cross-platform slides. Ha.

Well it does if you only use the fonts that come with PowerPoint and the
service bureau has those same fonts loaded on their PCs. That was easy
when it only came with a dozen fonts. Not so anymore. We deal with this
almost daily as we get both platforms of PPT files.

>Now I sit here with a 70-slide presentation, made on a Mac, all done
>using the Futura family of fonts, and I've called over 8 different
>service bureaus from Boston to California, with unfriendly and unhelpful
>responses. No one seems able to handle "those mac fonts." Some are
>willing to take a look at the
>presentation and convert all the fonts to "something equivalent" in the
>PC world (The print designer in me bristles at the suggestion!),

Scrapbook files from PPT Mac won't have font information so even if you
went to a Mac service bureau you'd still have problems.

>and one even wants to CHARGE me for his time and trouble to do
>that conversion!

I'm afraid I'd have to agree with them on this one.

>These are NOT complicated slides, folks. I just don't see why I have to
>change all my type to "Arial" or "Times New Roman" and jump back on a
>Windows machine for that matter. There MUST be good Mac people out there
>who do this work. I'd even go with a service bureau on the Windows side
>who can seamlessly take my Mac files without whining. Am I being
>unreasonable? Any ideas?

See if your service bureau will take PostScript files for slides. They
probably do if they're any kind of a service bureau at all. Then go to my
web page and look at the tip sheet for Creating PostScript files from
Macintosh Programs. With PostScript you can include the fonts and that
PostScript file will shoot fine on the PC side. We do it all the time.
You just have to set the page size right in PowerPoint. Be sure to view
the PowerPoint 4.0 and PowerPoint 98 for Macintosh tip sheet too!

PS: You could even use Persuasion and print them to PostScript!

If you have any questions please feel free to email me back.

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 Tom Roth Wake Forest University School of Medicine
 tomroth@wfubmc.edu Dept of Biomedical Communications
 http://www.wfubmc.edu/biomed/ Medical Center Blvd
 Tel 336.716.4493 Winston-Salem, NC 27157-1011
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