Presentation created in PP 2004 for Mac not translating to PC

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I have a client who needs a presentation template. They asked me to set up an
actual presentation and then they want to be able to go in and and edit as
needed. I designed the presentation with PP 2004 on a Mac and they are
working on a PC. I'm not sure what version PP they are using. We are having
the following difficulties: 1) Some characters do not show up on their end,
such as quotation marks and apostrophes. 2) The background that I created for
them with their corporate colors and logos looks clean on my screen but is
rough on their end. 3) Drop shadows make the type look blurred and are too
opaque.

I have used basic fonts that most everyone has, so I don't think it's a font
issue.

Is there a way to create a presentation that can be viewed correctly and
edited whether the client is on a Mac or a PC and might be using older
versions of PP?

Any help would be really appreciated!!
 
saderk said:
I have a client who needs a presentation template. They asked me to set up an
actual presentation and then they want to be able to go in and and edit as
needed. I designed the presentation with PP 2004 on a Mac and they are
working on a PC. I'm not sure what version PP they are using. We are having
the following difficulties: 1) Some characters do not show up on their end,
such as quotation marks and apostrophes. 2) The background that I created for
them with their corporate colors and logos looks clean on my screen but is
rough on their end. 3) Drop shadows make the type look blurred and are too
opaque.

I have used basic fonts that most everyone has, so I don't think it's a font
issue.

Is there a way to create a presentation that can be viewed correctly and
edited whether the client is on a Mac or a PC and might be using older
versions of PP?

Any help would be really appreciated!!
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Also, my client is getting the message, "Presentation might contain Far East
Text and formats that PowerPoint can't display" when she opens the document.
Anyone know what this is about?
 
Dear User,

This is the Powerpoint Windows Newsgroup.

Post it in the newsgroup for PPT Mac.
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.mac.office.powerpoint

Suvodip Moitra
 
I have a client who needs a presentation template. They asked me to set up an
actual presentation and then they want to be able to go in and and edit as
needed. I designed the presentation with PP 2004 on a Mac and they are
working on a PC. I'm not sure what version PP they are using. We are having
the following difficulties: 1) Some characters do not show up on their end,
such as quotation marks and apostrophes.
Click to expand...

Mac and PC "encode" true quote marks and apostrophes differently. In the past,
PPT used to do a fairly good job of coping with the differences, at least with
text in text boxes and such, but if the text is in graphics, it wouldn't make
that correction, I don't think.

Let us know what type of text this happens to. All (ie, PPT's placeholders and
so on) or just some.

2) The background that I created for
them with their corporate colors and logos looks clean on my screen but is
rough on their end.
Click to expand...

What format was it created in? How was it inserted?
3) Drop shadows make the type look blurred and are too
opaque.
Click to expand...

Windows PPT and earlier Mac versions don't support soft drop shadows. I'd guess
that's the problem. The solution would be not to use them or (if in a logo or
other fixed graphic) create the shadows as part of the graphic in Photoshop or
the like.
I have used basic fonts that most everyone has, so I don't think it's a font
issue.
Click to expand...

What specific fonts? There aren't really that many fonts that you can count on
everyone having.
Is there a way to create a presentation that can be viewed correctly and
edited whether the client is on a Mac or a PC and might be using older
versions of PP?

Any help would be really appreciated!!
Click to expand...

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