Pppoint to Adobe loses backgrounds?

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I am using Office 2000 and Adobe Acrobat 6.0. I am converting a Powerpoint to Adobe and it works ok except it loses the background
graphics. Not pictures I have inserted but background graphics like wallpaper.

Any tips?
 
How are you creating the PDF? Are you using the icon on the PowerPoint 2000
toolbar, or are you printing to Distiller?

What template does your presentation use? Is that where the slide background is
set up? (Go to View > Master > Slide Master to see if the background is there.)
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Einstine said:
I am using Office 2000 and Adobe Acrobat 6.0. I am converting a Powerpoint to
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Adobe and it works ok except it loses the background
 
Are you printing to grayscale?

Also, how did you insert the background - did you use Format | Background or
did you just place a graphic in the slide master as a backdrop.

Also make sure that if you chose Format | Background, you did not check the
box that says "Omit background graphics from master".


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Einstine said:
I am using Office 2000 and Adobe Acrobat 6.0. I am converting a
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Powerpoint to Adobe and it works ok except it loses the background
 
What is Distiller? I have tried printing from the Adobe icon in Ppoint and by selecting AdobePDF
from the print options.

The design template I am using is Bold Stripes. The graphic that disappears is part of Bold Stripes.
And yes, the background is there when viewing slide master.

Here is a pic of the difference.
http://mywebpages.comcast.net/mudbone61/test-adobe.jpg
 
You used Distiller by using the PDF printer. If it's any comfort, I get the
same results. There is a semitransparent white rectangle sitting on top of
light blue stripes and I suspect that the semitransparent setting is not
recognized in the conversion process, so the stripes under the rectangle are
hidden. You can see this if you go to View > Master > Slide Master. Select the
background object and go to Draw > Ungroup. Then click in the extreme upper
right corner (so that you don't select a placeholder) and go to Format >
Autoshape. You'll notice that the Fill color is set to Semitransparent white.

I tried pasting the background object into Draw12 and the semitransparency isn't
recognized there either. So, I don't have a solution for you other than to
create your own template background. Maybe Steve will pop in an offer other
ideas.
 
Thanks Sonia.


Sonia said:
You used Distiller by using the PDF printer. If it's any comfort, I get the
same results. There is a semitransparent white rectangle sitting on top of
light blue stripes and I suspect that the semitransparent setting is not
recognized in the conversion process, so the stripes under the rectangle are
hidden. You can see this if you go to View > Master > Slide Master. Select the
background object and go to Draw > Ungroup. Then click in the extreme upper
right corner (so that you don't select a placeholder) and go to Format >
Autoshape. You'll notice that the Fill color is set to Semitransparent white.

I tried pasting the background object into Draw12 and the semitransparency isn't
recognized there either. So, I don't have a solution for you other than to
create your own template background. Maybe Steve will pop in an offer other
ideas.
Click to expand...
 
What is Distiller? I have tried printing from the Adobe icon in Ppoint and by selecting AdobePDF
from the print options.
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Distiller is the program that the Adobe PDF driver uses to convert its output into PDF. The Adobe icon
also uses Adobe PDF so it uses Distiller indirectly too.
The design template I am using is Bold Stripes. The graphic that disappears is part of Bold Stripes.
And yes, the background is there when viewing slide master.

Here is a pic of the difference.
http://mywebpages.comcast.net/mudbone61/test-adobe.jpp
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THANK YOU! That makes it much easier to understand what you're seeing.

Here's the problem in a nutshell: When you use transparency (as the stripes in the background do)
PPT's PostScript output is tuned to 600dpi output on a letter size page, where it works reasonably
well, but it doesn't work at other sizes/resolutions. I'm betting that if you open your PDF up in
Acrobat or Reader and zoom in WAY close, you'll see that the stripes are really there, but disappear at
normal viewing distances.

Try modifying the background so that it uses light blue stripes rather than darker blue,
semitransparent ones.


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Steve Rindsberg, PPT MVP
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If you ungroup the background you'll find that the stripes aren't
semitransparent. There's a large rectangle on top of them that is
semitransparent white. It's a typical MS template created all with objects, but
they got lazy with the stripes. Instead of changing their color they masked it
with a white wash.
 
http://mywebpages.comcast.net/mudbone61/test-adobe.jpp
THANK YOU! That makes it much easier to understand what you're seeing.

Here's the problem in a nutshell: When you use transparency (as the stripes in the background do)
PPT's PostScript output is tuned to 600dpi output on a letter size page, where it works reasonably
well, but it doesn't work at other sizes/resolutions. I'm betting that if you open your PDF up in
Acrobat or Reader and zoom in WAY close, you'll see that the stripes are really there, but disappear at
normal viewing distances.
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Sorry, when zoomed the stripes are still not there.
 
Sonia said:
If you ungroup the background you'll find that the stripes aren't
semitransparent. There's a large rectangle on top of them that is
semitransparent white. It's a typical MS template created all with objects, but
they got lazy with the stripes. Instead of changing their color they masked it
with a white wash.
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OK. So how do I get them to print to PDF correctly?
 
You basically have to remodel the template. The way I would do it is to open
PowerPoint, go to File > New > Design Templates > Bold Slides and then click on
Cancel (don't create a new slide). Go to View > Master > Slide Master. Drag the
placeholders off the slide. Select the background and ungroup it. Deselect
everything and then select the white rectangle and delete it. Select the
stripes that you want to be lightened and give them a very pale blue color.
Move the placeholders back into place. Go to File > Save As and pick Design
Template as the File Type. Give it a name of BoldStripes_PDF.POT. Close the
file. Open your presentation and go to Format > Apply Design Template and pick
BoldStripes_PDF to see whether you like the results. Save your presentation to
a new name. Create a PDF file and see whether it looks the way you want.

This way you don't touch the original presentation or template and you can
always revert back to them, so follow the steps for giving them both new names.
 
Sorry, when zoomed the stripes are still not there.
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They are here. I found a copy of the template and tried it.
I'm using a different version of Acrobat than you are, but it shouldn't matter.
When I wrote "WAY close" I meant it. You have zoom in as far as it'll go, 800 or 1600%, to see what I'm
talking about.

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Steve Rindsberg, PPT MVP
PPT FAQ: www.pptfaq.com
PPTools: www.pptools.com
================================================
Featured Presenter, PowerPoint Live 2004
October 10-13, San Diego, CA www.PowerPointLive.com
================================================
 
If you ungroup the background you'll find that the stripes aren't
semitransparent. There's a large rectangle on top of them that is
semitransparent white. It's a typical MS template created all with objects, but
they got lazy with the stripes. Instead of changing their color they masked it
with a white wash.
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Thanks ... I went looking but didn't find that template under the first couple of
rocks I tipped up. Some really cool semi-transparent salamanders, though. ;-)

Should be an easy fix then ... ditch the white rectangle, change the stripe colors
to something pale and they'll a) show up and b) print like lightning compared to
the time it took before.
 
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