Text Renders incorrectly Under 8 Points

[Decker 12]

This is for powerpoint 2008 as part of Mac Office 2008.

I create a new powerpoint presentation and add a few paragraphs worth of
text at 12 point. This looks fine, the spacing and kerning is correct.

I then change the font size to 8 point, and the spacing and kerning is
completely wrong. If I zoom into 400%, I can see the 8 point letters are all
strangely merged together, borderline unreadable, while 9 point and above
looks fine. When it's at 8 point, it does appear to be the correct font, it's
just not rendering correctly.

In presentation mode and on-screen, it remains messed up. When I print the
slide it renders the 8 point font correctly.

This is with any font, including the default Calibri font. I can replicate
the problem on several machines. Anyone else should be able to replicate as
well - just paste a block of text into an empty Powerpoint document, make
half of it 9 point and the other half 8 point, and zoom in to notice the
complete difference in kerning and tracking.

This was not a problem in Powerpoint 2004. 8pt and lower fonts printed and
displayed on screen correctly.

 

[CyberTaz]

Hi Decker -

Have you checked System Preferences> Appearance to see what the Font
Smoothing & Text Smoothing are? See if adjustments there make a difference.

Just out of curiosity, why is this an issue in PPt? I rarely use anything
smaller than 18 pt. in a presentation & *never* anything smaller than 14 pt.

HTH |:>)
Bob Jones
[MVP] Office:Mac



On 6/2/08 6:09 PM, in article
(e-mail address removed), "Decker 12" <Decker

 

[Decker 12]

That was it! Thanks so much!

Strangely, 8 point and lower text rendered fine in Powerpoint 2004 - so
apparently, 2004 was ignoring the Appearance settings.

As far as including 8 point fonts in presentations.. well, let's just say
I'm on board with your opinion.. but the boss likes intense graphs and bar
charts with a whole BUNCH Of data in them

 

[CyberTaz]

....Regardless of whether anyone can *read* it - I know the type

Glad it helped & thanks for confirming!

Regards |:>)
Bob Jones
[MVP] Office:Mac