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Mac Forum / Applications / PowerPoint / June 2006mac vs pc - differences
Is there any way to lock a file so that you are assured it will look the same to no matter who opnes it in PowerPoint? We are a mac studio and occasionally run into problems with people not seeing things the same way on the PC end - not that this is surprising. > Is there any way to lock a file so that you are assured it will look > the same to no matter who opnes it in PowerPoint? We are a mac studio > and occasionally run into problems with people not seeing things the > same way on the PC end - not that this is surprising. You can't really lock the file in the sense of making it unchangeable but there are several things you can do to help ensure it looks the same on a PC: There's some info on this here: Cross-platform Compatibility http://www.rdpslides.com/pptfaq/index.html#name_Cross-platform_Compatibility The compatibility checker on the Mac side should also help to point out potential problem areas if you use PPT 2004. Never copy/paste pictures; instead, use Insert, Picture, From File. If you need to use movies or sounds, choose formats that work on both platforms (AVI for movies, WAV for sounds) and insert them only after having copied the sound/movie files to the same folder as your PPT. ================================================ Steve Rindsberg, PPT MVP PPT FAQ: www.pptfaq.com PPTools: www.pptools.com ================================================ > The compatibility checker on the Mac side should also help to point out > potential problem areas if you use PPT 2004. Though it doesn't detect all potential issues (eg: TIFF files compressed with a QT compressor). Beside image formats, the major issue I see with cross platform is font-substitution: Try to make sure you are always using a font that's available on the other platform. Corentin  Signature--- Mac:MS MVP (Francophone) http://www.cortig.net/wordpress/ --- http://www.mvps.org - http://mvp.support.microsoft.com MVPs are not MS employees - Les MVP ne travaillent pas pour MS Remove "NoSpam" to e-mail me - Retirez "NoSpam" pour m'écrire Thanks Steve. The problems we have seem to be more related to fonts but we have a corporate font that was made for both platforms so . . . ?? I 'll check this out as I am sure it will provide me with answers that I could use in general. > Is there any way to lock a file so that you are assured it will look > the same to no matter who opnes it in PowerPoint? We are a mac studio > and occasionally run into problems with people not seeing things the > same way on the PC end - not that this is surprising. > Thanks Steve. The problems we have seem to be more related to fonts but > we have a corporate font that was made for both platforms so . . . ?? > I 'll check this out as I am sure it will provide me with answers that > I could use in general. Depending on the licensing restrictions placed on the Window/PC version of the font, you may be able to embed it in the PPT file. If so, it'll make the font available to PC users. Mac PPT neither embeds fonts nor uses fonts that have been embedded, so this won't help on that end. If you do much of this kind of thing, I'd highly recommend keeping at least a cheap PC laptop around to test with; at today's prices, it's hard to go wrong, and it could save you from going wrong in so many ways. Or install Virtual PC and Windows+PPT/Office on any handy Mac. Or now that Apple's gone INTELlectual on us, a dual boot in our future ...? ;-) > > Is there any way to lock a file so that you are assured it will look > > the same to no matter who opnes it in PowerPoint? We are a mac studio > > and occasionally run into problems with people not seeing things the > > same way on the PC end - not that this is surprising. ================================================ Steve Rindsberg, PPT MVP PPT FAQ: www.pptfaq.com PPTools: www.pptools.com ================================================ > Is there any way to lock a file so that you are assured it will look > the same to no matter who opnes it in PowerPoint? We are a mac studio > and occasionally run into problems with people not seeing things the > same way on the PC end - not that this is surprising. When I presented my final PPT presentation on the last class meeting, it did not perform like the original. I did the org on my Mac, verOX Office and the the transfer was put into a windows xp pro laptop at the class via a USB jump drive. All the fonts came out wrong, the animation effects were screwed up, some sound effects didn't work, so yeah, there waS A DEFINITE CROSS PLATFOrM PROBLEM. I was really disappointed, especially the hours of work I put into it and the class said mine was the best shown. Nice of them to say that, but each student did a great job and were unique. I can never allow that to happen again and I am exclusively a Mac operator, so I am not going to design on Windows if I can avoid it, even though the windows ver has more features that the OSX vers. > When I presented my final PPT presentation on the last class meeting, it > did not perform like the original. I did the org on my Mac, verOX Office > and the the transfer was put into a windows xp pro laptop at the class > via a USB jump drive. All the fonts came out wrong, the animation > effects were screwed up, some sound effects didn't work, so yeah, there > waS A DEFINITE CROSS PLATFOrM PROBLEM. It may have been that but it may not. The fonts could equally run into problems between any two Macs or PCs, as could the sound effects, depending on how they were done. Animation can run into problems between versions ... you mention Win XP Pro on the laptop, but that could be running pretty much any version of PPT from 97 on, or either of two free viewers. You might just as well have run into the same problems between different Windows versions of PPT. >>I was really disappointed, Of that, there's no doubt. It's really frustrating that there's no way to package up a presentation in a really bulletproof manner. > especially the hours of work I put into it and the class said mine was > the best shown. Nice of them to say that, but each student did a great > job and were unique. I can never allow that to happen again and I am > exclusively a Mac operator, so I am not going to design on Windows if I > can avoid it, even though the windows ver has more features that the OSX > vers. ================================================ Steve Rindsberg, PPT MVP PPT FAQ: www.pptfaq.com PPTools: www.pptools.com ================================================ |
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