Re: Inserting Mathematica-generated EPS files into PowerPoint? (on a Mac)
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- Subject: [mg34532] Re: Inserting Mathematica-generated EPS files into PowerPoint? (on a Mac)
- From: Jens-Peer Kuska <kuska at informatik.uni-leipzig.de>
- Date: Mon, 27 May 2002 01:16:03 -0400 (EDT)
- Organization: Universitaet Leipzig
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- Reply-to: kuska at informatik.uni-leipzig.de
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Hi, PowerPoint has *no* PostScript interpreter. It show you just the TIFF/Metafile preview and the preview look lousy. You must use a vector graphics format, that PowerPoint can read,i.e., Windows Meta File, Enhanced Meta File .. Or you use the pstoedit program together with ghostript to make a vectir format. You may also import the eps fiels into Corel Draw, as PostScript (interpretet) export it into the format you like Regards Jens BTW: Why not use Mathematica itself for the presentation ? aes wrote: > > I can insert Mathematica-generated EPS image files into PowerPoint 98 slides > without trouble using the "Insert picture from file" command in PPT. > > Resizing these files by the usual "drag the corner handle" method, however, > typically results in a really lousy image -- small changes in size lead to lots > of aliasing artifacts, large expansions lead to very crude pixelly images. This > occurs both in slide edit and Slide Show modes. > > I assume this is because PPT is using only a low-resolution bitmap preview from > the EPS file to make the screen (and projector) display, rather than actually > rendering the PostScript image. Yet the PostScript data must be still in the > PPT file, because if I print the lousy-looking PPT slide to PDF, the same image > looks great in the Acrobat page created from the slide. > > Any plugins or other ways to fix this? Is PPT 2000 any better? > > (Or does MS deliberately sabotage EPS images to hassle users of Adobe products?)