- Resolution Loss When Converting to Powerpoint?

From: Campbell, Robert D (UK Edinburgh) <"Campbell,>
Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2005 08:37:57 +0100

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We had a similar problem pasting
BlackBox Views as Metafiles into Word
on Windows NT. When the View is focussed
it is fine, by release the focus and the fonts,
particularly the inter-character spacing,
are wrong.

We now use Bitmaps!

Robert
 

>> > Would pasting your View as a Bitmap into Powerpoint be a solution?

>>

>> No, I don't think so, because usually I like to modify the vector
>> graphics in Powerpoint after they have been cut & pasted from
>>

>> Blackbox.
>>

>> I suspect the problem is that Blackbox is probably saving its
>> Metafile data at 96 DPI, which is losing a lot of information
>> in my detailed plots. One workaround is to simply make the plots
>> larger and then shrink them down after the Metafile has been
>> converted into an Office Drawing, but I think it'd be nice to
>>

>> have some control over the DPI that Blackbox saves its Metafile
>> data in.
>>

>> Marc

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