Re: background color in a presentation

In article <uCGs2XkfJHA.5328@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Bill Dilworth wrote:
So, I might try to come up with a curve based on halves.

Pick the shade of gray that is 1/2 way between black and white, then pick
the gray mid-point between each of those, then build a curve formula based
on that. And here you thought quadratic equations would never apply to the
real world.

Put it in Excel, add some cels for users to enter their own parameters and
you've got something.

What exactly? Oh, now you're getting tricky! ;-)




Bill Dilworth

"Steve Rindsberg" <abuse@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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In article <eFCJHlKfJHA.3668@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Ute Simon wrote:
But there's also the problem of how the computer display reacts. It's
not
linear ... the change from 0/0/0 to 10/10/10 probably won't be visible;
the
change from 128/128/128 to 138/138/138 will be quite obvious.

And if you should plan to print your presentation, keep in mind that Gray
is
one of the most difficult colors to print on office laser printers. The
one
in our office prints a blueish shade (though we compared gradients on a
variety of models before purchasing - this was the most acceptable one),
but
I've also seen greenish and pinkish grays. And the gradient might not be
smooth, either.

There are a few tricks for that too. One would be using a lookup table
customized for the printer (at least in Neron's case).

Next, you want to make sure that the printer's resolution is set to some
integral multiple of 300dpi. Test the various driver settings ... some of
them
have special modes that use other in-between resolutions or other tricks;
in at
least some versions, this can make PPT's gradients and transparency
printing
turn out REALLY awful.

And if you have Acrobat, try printing to PDF via Distiller, then printing
to
the printer from the PDF in Reader or Acrobat.

PPT's gradients/transparency output to PostScript is braindead. Distiller
has
a clever feature called "idiom recognition". It sees the PS, says "Hmm.
That
looks like PPT's foolishness." So it tosses out the bad stuff and
substitutes
intelligent PS that produces nice, smooth gradients that print well to a
wide
range of printers.




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