Using postscript files with powerpoint ?

[Axel Kowald]

Hi everybody,

I have a postscript file which I want to import into Powerpoint2002.
Powerpoint allows me to select eps files and places a placeholder of
the size of the postscript BoundingBox on my powerpoint slide.

So far, so good. But when I print the slide (on a PS printer) I still
only see the placeholder on not the content of the PS file :-(
I understand that Powerpoint displays only a placeholder on screen
(since it doesn't contain a PS interpreter), but when send to a PS
printer it should display the content of the PS file ?!

Any ideas what's going wrong ?

Many thanks,

Axel

 

[Geetesh Bajaj]

You should open the PS file in Illustrator and save it as an EMF file -
import that inside PowerPoint assuming your PS file is a vector
illustration.

If that does not work, try to export it as a TIFF that you can insert on a
slide.


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[Axel Kowald]

You should open the PS file in Illustrator and save it as an EMF file -
import that inside PowerPoint assuming your PS file is a vector
illustration.

Hm, good idea.
I tried it and Illustrator (11.0) displayed the ps file correctly,
except for the fonts which it completely omitted :-(
This is strange since I included the fonts in the PS file and
ghostview displays everything correctly.

Any good idea here ?

Cheers,
Axel