Presentations 11 for MAC

It seems that lately more and more Art institutions are switching over to 
the MAC, making it impossible for me to offer my artwork through 
Presentations 11 without first converting the file to .ppt.  However, . . .

I have tried converting to Powerpoint 95 and 97 both with the .exe file and 
with the .shw file and in either case a message comes up stating that the 
file seems to be corrupt.  These files are not corrupt and work fine on my 
PC.  The .shw file is 169mb.

Other then submitting cold "plain Jane" jpegs to the museum, is there
anyway 
to get around this?

Thank you in advance for your support.

A-F+
-- 
Br. Anthony-Francis
Brant Studios
P.O. Box 37
GWB Station
New York, NY 10033-0037
On-line Art Gallery:  www.yessy.com/brantstudios 

Br. Anthony-Francis wrote:
> It seems that lately more and more Art institutions are switching over to 
> the MAC, making it impossible for me to offer my artwork through 
> Presentations 11 without first converting the file to .ppt.  However, . .
.
> 
> I have tried converting to Powerpoint 95 and 97 both with the .exe file and

> with the .shw file and in either case a message comes up stating that the 
> file seems to be corrupt.  These files are not corrupt and work fine on my

> PC.  The .shw file is 169mb.
> 
> Other then submitting cold "plain Jane" jpegs to the museum, is
there anyway 
> to get around this?
> 
> Thank you in advance for your support.
> 
> A-F+

What exactly is your artwork?  Are you sending one slide at a time?  Do 
you need to worry about transitions/wipes/fades?

Off the top of my head I'd say you'd be better off with converting to pdf.

Some more info will be helpful for me. :)

Joell

Thanks for your response Joell,

My artwork is Fine Art Photography, so the presentation would not be like a 
boardroom presentation of profits and losses of a company.

I do a presentation with fades, music [optional to the viewer] etc.

A tif file [Pres does not accept jpgs] is imported to a page in Pres from 
Photoshop.

I usually start the first page with a choice to the viewer as to whether to 
see the presenation or to see simply the equivalent of a slide show.  To do 
this, the tif files are entered twice.  The slide show would normally have 
arrows on each page for the viewer to change.

At the end a page comes up with contact information and "click on"
choices: 
1. to see the presenation again, 2. view the slide show. 3. to see the 
artist bio, 4 to view a word history of the piece etc. and there is also a 
click to exit the program.

Sometimes I have a presentation with words describing how each picture came 
into being.  That page [since everyone reads at different speeds] the viewer 
clicks on an arrow I have provided which brings them to the image.  The 
image page would be timed to change automatically to another word page.

I may title the piece under the image.  The title may appear as a slide-in 
or a happy jumping across the screen depending upon the mood of the 
presenation.

All this has worked perfectly on a pc.  The conversion to ppt in 
Presentation appears to work fine for quite a while, and then a window pops 
up stating that the file may be corrupt.  The file either being the one 
being created or the one that is being copied - I don't know.

I hope this is helpful.

Thanks,

A-F

Br. Anthony-Francis
Brant Studios
P.O. Box 37
GWB Station
New York, NY 10033-0037
On-line Art Gallery:  www.yessy.com/brantstudios
"joell haugan" <rectagon@netscape.net> wrote in message 
news:45abd706$1_2@cnews...
>
> Br. Anthony-Francis wrote:
>> It seems that lately more and more Art institutions are switching over
to 
>> the MAC, making it impossible for me to offer my artwork through 
>> Presentations 11 without first converting the file to .ppt.  However, .
. 
>> .
>>
>> I have tried converting to Powerpoint 95 and 97 both with the .exe file

>> and with the .shw file and in either case a message comes up stating
that 
>> the file seems to be corrupt.  These files are not corrupt and work
fine 
>> on my PC.  The .shw file is 169mb.
>>
>> Other then submitting cold "plain Jane" jpegs to the museum,
is there 
>> anyway to get around this?
>>
>> Thank you in advance for your support.
>>
>> A-F+
>
> What exactly is your artwork?  Are you sending one slide at a time?  Do 
> you need to worry about transitions/wipes/fades?
>
> Off the top of my head I'd say you'd be better off with converting to pdf.
>
> Some more info will be helpful for me. :)
>
> Joell
> 

Hi A-F

See my responses inline:

Br. Anthony-Francis wrote:
> Thanks for your response Joell,
> 
> My artwork is Fine Art Photography, so the presentation would not be like a

> boardroom presentation of profits and losses of a company.
> 
> I do a presentation with fades, music [optional to the viewer] etc.
> 
> A tif file [Pres does not accept jpgs] is imported to a page in Pres from 
> Photoshop.
Pres does accept JPG's.  Are you getting an error message? Where are the 
jpg's from (a digital camera perhaps?).
Also, for the record, the best way to import images into Pres is to open 
the picture with Irfanview (free file viewer) and then copy and paste 
into Pres.  For some silly reason Pres downgrades images when imported 
directly (that's not always noticeable but it does happen).  Doing the 
Irfanview thing preserves the quality.
> 
> I usually start the first page with a choice to the viewer as to whether to

> see the presenation or to see simply the equivalent of a slide show.  To do

> this, the tif files are entered twice.  The slide show would normally have

> arrows on each page for the viewer to change.
> 
> At the end a page comes up with contact information and "click
on" choices: 
> 1. to see the presenation again, 2. view the slide show. 3. to see the 
> artist bio, 4 to view a word history of the piece etc. and there is also a

> click to exit the program.
> 
> Sometimes I have a presentation with words describing how each picture came

> into being.  That page [since everyone reads at different speeds] the
viewer 
> clicks on an arrow I have provided which brings them to the image.  The 
> image page would be timed to change automatically to another word page.
> 
> I may title the piece under the image.  The title may appear as a slide-in

> or a happy jumping across the screen depending upon the mood of the 
> presenation.
> 
> All this has worked perfectly on a pc.  The conversion to ppt in 
> Presentation appears to work fine for quite a while, and then a window pops

> up stating that the file may be corrupt.  The file either being the one 
> being created or the one that is being copied - I don't know.

Chances are there is a particular transition or slide that is causing 
this problem. Can you successfully export to PPT with a small file? 
(Use one of the sample files for a test). If those work fine then you'll 
need to do some sleuthing to figure out if a slide(s) or a particular 
transition is the guilty party.  Oh, before you do all this delete your 
temp files on your system... that might be the problem too.
> 
> I hope this is helpful.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> A-F

The interactivity of the show pretty much dictates that you need to 
retain the format as a .shw (or ppt).  Another less interactive option 
would be to do a screen capture to video (aviscreen is a freeware app 
that I like).  http://www.bobyte.com/AviScreen/index.asp


-- 
Please reply only to the newsgroup.

Joell Haugan
Corel Volunteer C-tech.
Presentations FAQ, Tips & Church Music Resources
http://haugan.no-ip.org/presentations/

Hi Joell,

I have been working on fixing this problem of not being able to convert 
Presentations to a ppt file.

Have found however that I can convert a very simple and short presentation 
to ppt.  Perhaps my art presentations are too complex and too long (some 
over 40 pages).

Followed your instructions, first deleting all "temp" files - did not

improve the situation.

Went through one of my art presentations step by step, page by page and 
image by image deleting all special effects concerning pages and or images. 
This did not help either.

Thank you for your suggestion re IrfanView, which I downloaded yesterday. 
At first blush it seems an easier way to make jpgs from tifs - I will have 
to experiment with this more.  I usually do that process in Photoshop, which 
turns out to be a long and tedious job reducing 300dpi dragged to a 72dpi 
window, using transform to maintain proportions in the reduction.  If I use 
Photoshop's  "save to the web" instead - which automatically does the
same 
thing, it is this type jpg that does not come up in Presentations for some 
reason.

I believe at this point the best thing for me to do is to go for the Power 
Point program so I can get my work out to publishers, galleres and museums 
without worry about whether or not they have PCs or MACs.

I have been a WordPerfect user since 5.0 back in the early 80s. . . sad. . 
..perhaps future Corel Presentations will have PC/MAC capability as well.

Thanks much for your help,

A-F

-- 
Br. Anthony-Francis
Brant Studios
P.O. Box 37
GWB Station
New York, NY 10033-0037
On-line Art Gallery:  www.yessy.com/brantstudios

"joell haugan" <rectagon@netscape.net> wrote in message 
news:45ae71f0_1@cnews...
>
> Hi A-F
>
> See my responses inline:
>
> Br. Anthony-Francis wrote:
>> Thanks for your response Joell,
>>
>> My artwork is Fine Art Photography, so the presentation would not be
like 
>> a boardroom presentation of profits and losses of a company.
>>
>> I do a presentation with fades, music [optional to the viewer] etc.
>>
>> A tif file [Pres does not accept jpgs] is imported to a page in Pres
from 
>> Photoshop.
> Pres does accept JPG's.  Are you getting an error message? Where are the 
> jpg's from (a digital camera perhaps?).
> Also, for the record, the best way to import images into Pres is to open 
> the picture with Irfanview (free file viewer) and then copy and paste into

> Pres.  For some silly reason Pres downgrades images when imported directly

> (that's not always noticeable but it does happen).  Doing the Irfanview 
> thing preserves the quality.
>>
>> I usually start the first page with a choice to the viewer as to
whether 
>> to see the presenation or to see simply the equivalent of a slide show.

>> To do this, the tif files are entered twice.  The slide show would 
>> normally have arrows on each page for the viewer to change.
>>
>> At the end a page comes up with contact information and "click
on" 
>> choices: 1. to see the presenation again, 2. view the slide show. 3. to

>> see the artist bio, 4 to view a word history of the piece etc. and
there 
>> is also a click to exit the program.
>>
>> Sometimes I have a presentation with words describing how each picture

>> came into being.  That page [since everyone reads at different speeds]

>> the viewer clicks on an arrow I have provided which brings them to the

>> image.  The image page would be timed to change automatically to
another 
>> word page.
>>
>> I may title the piece under the image.  The title may appear as a 
>> slide-in or a happy jumping across the screen depending upon the mood
of 
>> the presenation.
>>
>> All this has worked perfectly on a pc.  The conversion to ppt in 
>> Presentation appears to work fine for quite a while, and then a window

>> pops up stating that the file may be corrupt.  The file either being
the 
>> one being created or the one that is being copied - I don't know.
>
> Chances are there is a particular transition or slide that is causing this

> problem. Can you successfully export to PPT with a small file? (Use one of

> the sample files for a test). If those work fine then you'll need to do 
> some sleuthing to figure out if a slide(s) or a particular transition is 
> the guilty party.  Oh, before you do all this delete your temp files on 
> your system... that might be the problem too.
>>
>> I hope this is helpful.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> A-F
>
> The interactivity of the show pretty much dictates that you need to retain

> the format as a .shw (or ppt).  Another less interactive option would be 
> to do a screen capture to video (aviscreen is a freeware app that I like).

> http://www.bobyte.com/AviScreen/index.asp
>
>
> -- 
> Please reply only to the newsgroup.
>
> Joell Haugan
> Corel Volunteer C-tech.
> Presentations FAQ, Tips & Church Music Resources
> http://haugan.no-ip.org/presentations/
>