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damo suzuki - 07 Jul 2007 20:06 GMT

Hi, I had very big problem. I have a few PPT presentations created on
Windows containing scientific stuff and noticed that the equations
appeared as black rectangles, even if they were there (i saw opening
most of them, a few appeared as pictures, using the equation editor).
I just discovered that the problem seems (fingers crossed!!!!) to be
fixed by changing the system aliasing preferences. Since I'm on a
Powerbook i changed from LCD to STANDARD. Is this a known issue? Will
it be fixed? I almost had an heart attack when I saw those errors!

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Bob Mathews - 07 Jul 2007 22:49 GMT

> Hi, I had very big problem. I have a few PPT presentations
> created on Windows containing scientific stuff and noticed
> that the equations appeared as black rectangles, even if
> they were there (i saw opening most of them, a few
> appeared as pictures, using the equation editor).

Damo, I've seen others report this problem, but I've been unable
to reproduce it. If you'll send me a copy of your presentation
created on Windows, I'll take a look at it on my Powerbook.

Also, it will be helpful to know what version of PPT was used to
create the presentation, and what version you're using on the
Powerbook.

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Jeffrey Gordon - 31 Aug 2007 05:28 GMT

> > Hi, I had very big problem. I have a few PPT presentations
> > created on Windows containing scientific stuff and noticed
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> create the presentation, and what version you're using on the
> Powerbook.

The solution was posted by a Microsoft guy about 1.5 years ago.

Go to your System Prefs, Appearance pane... and change font smoothing to
"standard".

Restart PowerPoint. Voila. (Worked for me about 10min ago).

~Jeff

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AussieRoo - 15 Aug 2007 12:58 GMT

>Hi, I had very big problem. I have a few PPT presentations created on
>Windows containing scientific stuff and noticed that the equations
[quoted text clipped - 4 lines]
>Powerbook i changed from LCD to STANDARD. Is this a known issue? Will
>it be fixed? I almost had an heart attack when I saw those errors!

I've been trying to fix this problem for ages, and tonight stumbling across
this website after a general Google search. I have a G5 iMac, and using MS
Office 2004 for Mac. I'm also a mature age uni student, studying Psychology.
When the lecturers post their lecture notes for Statistics in PowerPoint, I
too get all the black blocks instead of equations when I try to print in b&w.

I haven't been able to 'fix' the problem, per se - however, in a momentary
flash of lateral thinking, I have solved the problem for printing...

Go to 'Slide Colour Scheme' under the Format menu, and in Custom, change the
background to white, and text and headings to black. Then when you print in
'colour', everything's in b&w and the equations come out perfectly.

Hope this helps some other people who've had the same problem.

Cheers!

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