Well, it turns out that I think I followed the same procedure you described.
I saved the PPT page as a gif. I then did an Insert>Picture>From File,
navigated to the gif and selected it. The full image was inserted. I right
clicked on the image, selected Picture Properties, selected to specify image
size, made sure the keep aspect ratio was selected, changed one of the pixel
values (the other changed automatically -- I made the pixel amount half of
the original -- and then looked at the image. The text is distorted.
Any other ideas? Like you, I figured that once the image was a gif that it
would treat it like a picture and do a better job of maintaining quality
during resize.
Thanks again
Tom
tcarp said:
Yes, and that's whats so surprising. I brought the PP page in as an image
just because I wanted to resize it.
What you're confirming is that it should work.
I did have one unusual thing happen though. I wasn't able to get the image
to resize by dragging the corner (with shift held) so I resized via the
properties box (Size) having it maintain ratio. When I tried the drag,
nothing happened at all.
Thanks
Tom
tcarp said:
Maybe I wasn't clear in my first post. That'[s exactly what I do and
regardless of whether it's a jpeg or gif or ..., the text distorts.
Thanks
Tom
:
Why don't you save the PPT file as images and insert the images into Front
Page? They'll scale.
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I've been experimenting with copying PP pages to FrontPage. When I get
them
there I want to resize them down a little but the text in the drawing
objects
distorts (as I expected I guess).
Is there a way to save a PP page and then resize it down without all the
text distortion or do I need to create a mini version of the original file
and then save it (what a pain)?
Thanks
Tom