Make patch so students can view jpegs pasted in by mac professors

[PC/microsoft = frustrating]

As a Dartmouth medical student, I am frustrated that I cannot view any of the
jpegs that my profs (who all use macs) insert into their presentations. I
know that the solution to this is for the professor to change how he/she
inserted the picture, but it is tough to get every professor (at least 12
profs per 13 week term) to change old habits.

As a future business owner, I am further frustrated that Microsoft does not
care about their previous customers enough to provide support for free. I
have visited a support website that apparently will charge $35 for consulting
a technician. I am very disappointed in the support that Microsoft gives
their customers. In order for me to equip my future clinic with PCs instead
of Macs, I am going to have to see a big change in the way that Microsoft
supports its clientele.

Currently, I know that Mac is providing many programs that allow mac users
to use PC programs, and I have not heard of any sort of campaign that would
give the same freedom to PC users. According to a lot of friends who are all
Mac users, they are also much more satisfied with their technical support. I
suppose that if Microsoft and other PC affiliated companies aren't careful,
the market is going to evolve, and the fittest (Mac) will survive... and this
is coming from a long time PC customer.

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[Bill Dilworth]

I believe that PowerPoint for Mac is a Windows product.

Anyway, I hear your frustration. Doctor school is tough enough without
missing what they are trying to show you. However, lets make sure that the
problem is on their end and not yours.

What is it that they are doing that is preventing you from seeing the
presentation graphics? Are they linking them instead of embedding? Are
they using QuickTime image compression?

It is worth picking apart one of their presentations to find the cause. If
the images aren't linked or QuickTime compressed, they should display fine
on your PC. Have you applied all SPs to both windows and Office? Have you
installed the latest video and print drivers? Is your DirectX current (9.0
or higher)? Do the graphics ever display, or just not in some views? Do
they display on other PCs or just not on yours?

It seems unlikely that this has not come up before with the professors. I
would think that they would want their students to be near the top of the
medical field or at least have a decent knowledge of the materials they are
teaching. What do the professors say about Mac/PC conversions of
presentations based on their students responses in the past?

If the professors are intentionally obfuscating their images, then there may
be a lucrative market in converting these presentations for your fellow
students. (vbg)


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[Austin Myers]

As a FYI: The problem is on the Apple side of things. Apple is trying to
sell their own version of PowerPoint so they are not in any big hurry to see
their image format converted to something for Windows. (Competition and all
that.) As a developer I have tried (hard) to work with Apple to obtain a
license to do this sort of thing (more with their video formats) and I can
tell you finding a room full of Hen's teeth would be easier than it is to
get a license to their proprietary formats. In fact their lawyers did not
hesitate to explain what their action would be if I vilolated their patents
and copyrights. And no, it wasn't send me flowers. <g> I think you are way
off base blaming Microsoft for Apple having tied their hands on the matter.
(FYI: The same thing applies to QuickTime video formats.)

You also said, "As a future business owner, I am further frustrated that
Microsoft does not care about their previous customers enough to provide
support for free."

I think once you go into business you'll find that free is very expensive.
<g>


Austin Myers
MS PowerPoint MVP Team

PowerPoint Video and PowerPoint Sound Solutions www.pfcmedia.com




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