Re: latex in Office 2008:mac

Alan Ristow <ristow@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Rowland McDonnell wrote:
Alan Ristow <ristow@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Peter Flynn wrote:

I would hope that LaTeX users know better than to use Powerpoint when
they can use beamer.
Sure, but this is a legitimate question that arises when one *cannot*
(as in "is not permitted to") use beamer. Because of this, despite the
fact that I write everything from letters to large documents with LaTeX,
I think I've only ever done one presentation with beamer.

[...]

The problem you mention elsewhere with getting a ropy looking png
insertion might also be due to MS's dodgy coding, but do look at the
conversion method first. If you're converting from pdf, there will be a
resolution setting somewhere and I'd not be surprised if it's set to
72dpi by default if you're working on a Mac.

You're right, the resolution is set to 72dpi by default in the tool I've
experimented with (though I'm on Windows -- I'm not the OP),

Oops! Sorry.

but bumping
it as high as 600dpi hasn't helped.

Hmm... Hmmmmmm.....

Might it be that PowerPoint is grabbing some low-res preview version
rather than the full res file, sort of thing?

(that sort of problem has been known to afflict Mac applications)

Based on experimentation with GIMP I
think I could probably get what I want by writing some GIMP scripts, but
first I have to learn how to do that and I simply don't have the time at
the moment.

Righto.

I've considered creating
presentations with beamer and converting them to a series of graphics I
can insert into a Powerpoint presentation (essentially using Powerpoint
as a very expensive photo viewer), but my few attempts so far have had
pretty ugly results.

Mmm.... If you're thinking of doing it that way don't need fancy
transitions, how about creating a screen-sized pdf and then using a pdf
viewer full screen to perform the job of `doing your presentation'?

Well sure, that would be my preference. But as I have already said, that
isn't always an option.

I noticed that - I was just wondering if my suggestion was a practical
workaround to whatever the barrier might have been, but...

I've given and/or attended presentations at many
facilities where you give the technicians what they want (a ppt) or you
simply don't give your presentation.

.... if that's what's going on, clearly not.

On the other hand - and this might be equally impractical - given that
this is all at a university (at a guess, from your email address and so
on), is there any way you could arrange things so that PDFs were added
to the list of `presentations that the technicians will run'?

I suspect not, because that'd only work if the PDFs are suitable for
presentations, and typical PDF creation software isn't set up to do that
sort of job by default whereas it's the whole point of PowerPoint - so a
lot of submitted PDFs would be duff[1] and the new idea would end up not
working most of the time. Still...

Rowland.

[1] Because there will be plenty of people who think `Oh, I can just
give them a PDF' and `print to PDF' their WP document or whatever,
outputting something that makes no attempt to fit to screen properly and
all that - you know how it goes.

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