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Re: Importing IDL plots to Powerpoint on Mac [message #42678 is a reply to message #42675]

Fri, 18 February 2005 06:55

K. Bowman
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Registered: May 2000

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In article <1108736592.609120.299650@g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>,
"wcramer" <wcramer@fit.edu> wrote:

> What's the best way to transfer IDL plots to Powerpoint so that they
> look nice? All of the ways that I've tried so far don't look very
> presentable.

I don't have a solution for Powerpoint. I have always attributed
graphics issues to Powerpoint doing dumb things with PS and PDF files.
(Intentionally or not, who can say?)

Keynote imports PDF files very easily. Just drag them onto the slide
and re-size as needed. Keynote does smooth bitmaps embedded in PDF
files (see thread from a week or two ago). This is usually
undetectable, unless the bitmaps are very low resolution. You can
export your Keynote presentation to PDF (or even Powerpoint).

Another option is TeX. If you know TeX, you can make your presentation
directly to PDF and present it with Adobe Reader. The learning curve
for Tex is steep at first, but once you figure out how to use it, it's
great. I no longer fight with MS Word. Even better, it's free. I
recommend TeXShop

http://www.uoregon.edu/~koch/texshop/texshop.html,

which is a slick TeX front-end for OS X, but there are others.

A nifty little program for adding math to presentations is the Latex
Equation Editor. Enter the Tex commands in the window, hit the button
to typeset the equation, drag it into the Keynote window.

http://evolve.lse.ac.uk/software/EquationEditor/

Ken Bowman

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		Re: Importing IDL plots to Powerpoint on Mac By: R.Bauer on Sat, 19 February 2005 04:16
		Re: Importing IDL plots to Powerpoint on Mac By: kashyap on Fri, 18 February 2005 15:29
		Re: Importing IDL plots to Powerpoint on Mac By: Paul Van Delst[1] on Fri, 18 February 2005 07:34
		Re: Importing IDL plots to Powerpoint on Mac By: K. Bowman on Fri, 18 February 2005 06:55
		Re: Importing IDL plots to Powerpoint on Mac By: wcramer on Mon, 21 February 2005 06:27

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