RE: Font Smoothing & Image Scaling

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From: PPTMagician (PPTMagician_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 02/22/05 

Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2005 06:47:10 -0800

Hi,

Kathy J. has been keeping up with the jagged text item:
http://www.powerpointanswers.com/article1043.html

Glenna

"Zigzag" wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> PPT2003
> WinXP Pro
> Windows font smoothing - standard
>
> I was wondering if someone could provide me with an answer/solution to the
> following 2 queries.
>
> 1. Font smoothing
> I am using Verdana in a presentation with sizes from 16 to 24 and the edges
> are definitely jagged as if font smoothing has not been applied. I have font
> smoothing (standard) switched on in Windows.
> I have applied custom animation (fade and motion path) to the text boxes and
> was wondering if this could be the cause of the problem and if there was a
> remedy.
> As I can't find anything about font smoothing in ppt I assume it picks it up
> from the Windows setting or am I missing something?
>
> 2. Image Scaling
> A peculiar one this. I have 5 small png pictures (125x66 pixels) that I
> created using Fireworks. I created the first one of a night and put it onto
> a ppt slide. The next morning I created the other 4 with the same size and
> put them onto the same slide.
> The 4 I created in the morning showed up on the slide as bigger than the one
> from the night before. Both Fireworks and Windows are showing all the
> pictures as 125x66 pixels. The first picture is showing up in ppt as
> 3.31x1.75cm with 100% scale and an original size of 3.31x1.75. The other 4
> pictures are showing up with an original size of 4.41x2.33cm - I have had to
> reduce the scale to 75% to get them the same size as the first one.
> Any explanation would be welcome.
>
> Tia
>
> Zig
>
>
>

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