Re: Powerpoint 2004 vs. Powerpoint v.X-2004 is SLOOOOOOOOOOW1

Following up...

Although I don't have a complete tutorial about graphs and PowerPoint, here's something that might be of interest:
http://www.agentjim.com/MVP/linkgraph.htm

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Jim Gordon
Mac MVP
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Dave Fritzinger wrote:
Jim Gordon MVP wrote:

Hi,

PPT 2004 can be slower than v.X, but if you have the latest updates
installed it should not be that much slower. I think in most cases a G5
with a good graphics card should not feel slower.


This is not a "bit slower", but more like massively slower. To give you
an idea, I had a presentation that ran fine on a iBook G3 (with only
256 MB RAM). The same presentation, when run on a PM G5 (dual 2.0,
revA, 1 Gig, OSX.4, with an ATI 9600 graphics card) was painfully slow.
Sometimes it would take over 10 sec for the next slide to appear. I
have been able to alleviate some of this by changing the format of the
graphic elements (I had been pasting graphs from Excel into the slides.
Now I save as Pict, and use Canvas to save as JPG, since the Excel save
a JPG feature gives graphs with very low resolution). Still,
graphics-rich slides can take several seconds to appear.

I'd spend some time doing basic troubleshooting. Repair permissions and
run DiskWarrior. If you know how to examine memory with Apple's Activity
Monitor, have a look and see how much memory is being used.

For most presentations a low resolution graphic will display as nice as
a high resolution. If you have 600 dpi TIFFS turn them into 96 dpi JPEGS
and things should move a lot faster.

PDF files only display a poster of the first page of the document. You
don't see the entire file.


I think this is an error on the part of Microsoft, since it is so easy
to save graphics as PDF files on a Mac. Most of the time when I try to
display PDF files in Word or powerpoint, it is of an Excel graph, or a
picture from Canvas or Photoshop, meaning it is a single graphic
element. In the two Microsoft applications, the pdf files are displayed
in very low resolution, so as to be totally useless for presentations.

I should say that I am hoping to replace my iBook with a MacBook Pro
sometime in the near future. I am worried that Powerpoint, running
under Rosetta, will be pretty useless on this machine, and am strongly
considering trying Keynote instead.

Thanks for your help, Jim.

--
Dave Fritzinger
Honolulu, HI

-Jim



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Jim Gordon
Mac MVP
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dfritzin@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

Hi,

Has anyone else noticed this problem? It was brought to my attention
recently when I borrowed a notebook to give a presentation that had
Office vX on it. My problem is that in Powerpoint 2004, many
transitions are very slow, espceially if the next slide has graphics in
it. For example, I have prepared a rather long Powerpoint slideshow on
my office Mac, a 1st generation PM G5/2.0 Gig, with 1 Gig of RAM,
running 10.4.5. When using the slide show mode on this machine, I have
to wait for several seconds for some of the slides to show up on the
screen. On my iMac G5 (RevB, 20"/2.0Gig with 1 Gig RAM), the situation
is similar. If I try to run the same show on my old iBook G3/700/256,
it is painfully slow. However, a similar presentation ran acceptably
fast on the iBook when run on Powerpoint vX.

What really brought this to my attention again is that when I borrowed
the Powerbook G4 (867 MHz, 640 MB RAM), which is running 10.3.9 and
Office vX, my slideshow ran faster on the Powerbook than on my
PowerMac, even though the PowerMac is a much more powerful machine?
What is going on with PowerPoint?

As a point of information, the presentation was originally created in
PowerPoint v.X, but has been highly modified in PowerPoint 2004. To get
it to run faster, I have changed graphs to jpg files (they were
originally just pasted in from Excel), and have made all other graphics
jpeg files, which helped quite a bit. However, graphics-rich slides
still hesitate for several seconds before coming on the screen.

One more issue, what is it with Microsoft applications and pdf files.
I have created pdf files that display excellently in both Adobe Acrobat
and Preview. However, when I put them into any Office application, they
show up as very low resolution graphics. What is going on?

Thanks for reading my rant. Any help would be appreciated. Also, is
Microsoft looking to improve this on the next version of Office?


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