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popiet

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Jun 9, 2003, 1:33:26 PM6/9/03
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Does anybody know what to do to get PNG files created in photoshop to
appear correctly on a new Apple G4 Power Book running system X with
PowerPoint X. They display fine on any old system 9 Mac computers as
well as PC's running the old Office 98 Power Point application.

John Reiher

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Jun 10, 2003, 10:49:01 AM6/10/03
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In article <b00e14bb.03060...@posting.google.com>,
pop...@totalshow.com (popiet) wrote:

I just tried it and had no problem importing in a PNG made in Photoshop
7 for Mac OS X, I also did a save for the web as a PNG-24 and it
imported just fine. What is the exact problem are you running into?

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Corentin Cras-Méneur

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Jun 10, 2003, 11:08:28 AM6/10/03
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popiet <pop...@totalshow.com> wrote:

Hi,

Office X simply does nopt display png files properly. Expecially if
transparency is involved. Biiigggg limitation IMHO.

Corentin

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Terry B

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Jun 11, 2003, 3:15:18 PM6/11/03
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I suspect that our poster, John Reiher is not using soft
drop-shadows on less than full frame .png objects.
Otherwise, he is the first person to say that .pngs behave
properly in OSX ppt.

If you read this, John, please explain. Are you using full
screen images or less than that...for objects that are
superimposed over other objects in ppt at runtime? There
have been multiple posts regarding this problem in ppt for OSX.

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John Reiher

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Jun 13, 2003, 1:46:40 AM6/13/03
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In article <045501c3304d$cbfdd190$a101...@phx.gbl>,
"Terry B" <tbgra...@aol.com> wrote:

OK, I just did a PNG with a transparent background and a drop shadow.
Now I see what's going on. The shadow is heavily pixelated.
Semi-transparent shadows from PPT don't work either.

I don't know of a workaround for this one, but I now see what you see.

Marco Barreto

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Jun 13, 2003, 6:38:22 PM6/13/03
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On 03/06/13 6:46, in article
kedamono.Poit-971...@msnews.microsoft.com, "John Reiher"
<kedamo...@Narf.mac.com> wrote:


Among other things, Powerpoint doesn't like transparency. One suggestion: If
you can, go to Keynote. It's awsome!

Marco

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