Exporting causes Text Box font to turn black

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Jerry Keyes

When exporting a slide to GIF or JPG, any text inside a
text box turns from it previous color (in this case,
white) to black!

This makes it pretty difficult to read on a black
background.

Has anyone else seen or dealt with this problem?

JK
(PowerPoint 2000)
 
Hi Jerry,

HOW do you try to export your slides to GIF or JPG? I did a try with PPT
2002 (I don't have 2000) and the Beta version of 2003 with "Save as" as well
as "Save as picture" (saves object only) and it worked fine.

Regards,
Ute
 
Ute:

I'm using the VBA...

With Application.ActivePresentation.Slides(Counter)
.Export strPath & "\" & strFile & fileEXT, & _
vFilter, vWidth, vHeight
End With

Using SaveAs works fine, but it doesn't have enough
functionality.

But Export seems to have a lot of negative side-effects
(not just what's mentioned below).

Any help would be appreciated.

JK
 
Jerry, an awful lot of people are using virtually the same code w/o
problems. This is the first time I've heard of this one. My guess is that
it may be a video driver problem. Try the code on a different computer or
change the color depth settings and hardware accelleration on your own
computer and give it another shot.

You might also want to check with the vid board maker to see if there are
updated drivers.

--

Steve Rindsberg PPT MVP
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Hey Steve:

No, that can't be it. I've tested it on several PCs at different locations
and I get the same problem. Again, it only seems to happen with Text Boxes.
I don't think it happens on every file (or I'd be getting a lot more people
yelling at me).

I know I could go to each Text Box and probably convert it to something else
(shape/frame?), but that seems excessive.

Is it possible that it's related to the error described in the knowledge
base article #279238? My current testing file also has this error, but the
two don't really seem related.

Any other suggestions?

JK
 
No, that can't be it. I've tested it on several PCs at different locations
and I get the same problem. Again, it only seems to happen with Text Boxes.
I don't think it happens on every file (or I'd be getting a lot more people
yelling at me).
Click to expand...

Now I'm confused. The code you posted will export a slide, not a shape.
Can you doublecheck that?

Meanwhile, also check to see whether you're running afoul of XP's ugly habit
of turning stuff into .Type=14 (placeholder) objects w/o your having asked
it to.
 
Sorry to add confusion...

I was suggesting that I could modify the text boxes before issuing the
export code, not that I would export the shapes themselves.

It also can't be XP since I'm not running it (as an OS or as in "Office
XP"). The problem shows up on Windows ME and Windows 2000, both running
Office 2000.

JK
 
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