Slides corrupt when using an older version of PP

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Oliver Lingk

Hello NG!
I'm using PP2002 on Windows XP. 'cause I don't have a color printer I went
to a store with my slides copied to CD to get 'em printed. This store used
an older Version of PP (think it was PP97). When opening my presentation my
slides looked weird. First of all the thickness of lines and arrows is
wrong. Additionally some of the imported pictures are resized and rotated.
This also happened to the presentation that I exported/converted to PP97.
The Popwerpoint viewer on my machine does the same weird stuff (maybe it's
based on PP97?!).

Can anybody tell me what's hapening there or what I can do to display may
presaentation with an older version of PP correctly?

Thx in advance
Oliver
 
I'm using PP2002 on Windows XP. 'cause I don't have a color printer I went
to a store with my slides copied to CD to get 'em printed. This store used
an older Version of PP (think it was PP97). When opening my presentation my
slides looked weird. First of all the thickness of lines and arrows is
wrong. Additionally some of the imported pictures are resized and rotated.
This also happened to the presentation that I exported/converted to PP97.
The Popwerpoint viewer on my machine does the same weird stuff (maybe it's
based on PP97?!).
Click to expand...

There's a new PowerPoint 2003 viewer that may work better. The old one is in
fact based on PPT97.

Download Free PowerPoint Viewers
http://www.rdpslides.com/pptfaq/FAQ00153.htm

PowerPoint doesn't have a feature that allows you to convert to PowerPoint 97 -
there's one that saves backward to either PowerPoint 95 or PowerPoint 95 PLUS
Current version. (PPT97 through 2003 use the same file format).

It sounds as though the store has PPT 95, perhaps? You might ask them about
that. It's been ten years ... time for them to upgrade! ;-)
Can anybody tell me what's hapening there or what I can do to display may
presaentation with an older version of PP correctly?
Click to expand...

You can distribute the new viewer freely; they could install it and use it to
print your slides.
 
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