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

Dan Schwartz(expresso[at]snip.net)
Fri, 19 Feb 1999 23:22:26 -0500

        Do it the easy way: Print the Persuasion files to an Acrobat document
instead. Use the PDFWriter Chooser Extension to create it directly.

        Do NOT send raw PostScript files to a Service Bureau: If it screws up,
you're still responsible for paying for it. [Those of us who ordered film
in the late 80's - early 90's can vouch for this!]

        Cheers!
        Dan

PS: If need be, I can set up one of my customers to handle your files: This
company (a photography studio/plant) has a nice film recorder I hooked up
to a Quadra 840AV for this kind of duty; and they also are a fully Kodak
Q-Lab certified photo lab for E6 processing. DLS

At 05:05 PM 2/19/99 -0500, you wrote:
>>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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