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<p><span class="autocomment">Starting with Powerpoint</span></p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 09:49, 9 May 2009</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l1">Line 1:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 1:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>=== Starting with Powerpoint ===</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>=== Starting with Powerpoint ===</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>#Place image in power point slide as ''Windows <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Meta </del>file'' (.wmf)</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>#Place image in power point slide as <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">''Enhanced meta file'' or </ins>''Windows <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">meta </ins>file'' (<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">.emf/</ins>.wmf)</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>#In Powerpoint use page setup to resize the slide so that the whole slide composes the desired image (i.e. reshape the slide to match the shape of the image and resize the image to match the size of the slide)</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>#In Powerpoint use page setup to resize the slide so that the whole slide composes the desired image (i.e. reshape the slide to match the shape of the image and resize the image to match the size of the slide)</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>#Save the slide as a &#039;&#039;Postscript&#039;&#039; (.pdf), Adobe Professional</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>#Save the slide as a &#039;&#039;Postscript&#039;&#039; (.pdf), Adobe Professional</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>#In Adobe Professional, us Save As-&gt;.eps to generate &#039;&#039;Encapsulated Postscript&#039;&#039; (.eps)</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>#In Adobe Professional, us Save As-&gt;.eps to generate &#039;&#039;Encapsulated Postscript&#039;&#039; (.eps)</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>*The advantage of .wmf over .emf seems to be that the text is treated as truetype, where in .emf the text is treated as an image.  Doing this with .emf files resulted in bad looking text for this particular image.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>*The advantage of .wmf over .emf seems to be that the text is treated as truetype, where in .emf the text is treated as an image.  Doing this with .emf files resulted in bad looking text for this particular image<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">.  I read that .emf is perferable, still don't know</ins>.</div></td></tr> </table>

Baker https://www.esoterum.org/mw/index.php?title=Generating_eps_files&diff=2089&oldid=prev 2008-12-15T01:03:13Z

<p>New page: === Starting with Powerpoint === #Place image in power point slide as &#039;&#039;Windows Meta file&#039;&#039; (.wmf) #In Powerpoint use page setup to resize the slide so that the whole slide composes the de...</p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>=== Starting with Powerpoint ===<br /> #Place image in power point slide as &#039;&#039;Windows Meta file&#039;&#039; (.wmf)<br /> #In Powerpoint use page setup to resize the slide so that the whole slide composes the desired image (i.e. reshape the slide to match the shape of the image and resize the image to match the size of the slide)<br /> #Save the slide as a &#039;&#039;Postscript&#039;&#039; (.pdf), Adobe Professional<br /> #In Adobe Professional, us Save As-&gt;.eps to generate &#039;&#039;Encapsulated Postscript&#039;&#039; (.eps)<br /> *The advantage of .wmf over .emf seems to be that the text is treated as truetype, where in .emf the text is treated as an image. Doing this with .emf files resulted in bad looking text for this particular image.</div>

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