Creating a flyer in Powerpoint and saving as jpeg

[pitterpitter]

First of all, I'm using a MAC/Safari and I need to get this done due to time, PLEASE. I created a PowerPoint slide for the back of a flyer and had to save it as a jpeg for the printing company. However, when they printed it out it wasn't very readable including the sponsor logos. It there a way to increase the resolution or should I have used a different program? Thanks for your help

 

[audiopro]

Powerpoint is a very low res solution so increasing res will not be very productive.
You will have to start again I am afraid.
A wise mane told me:-
Whenever you create a graphic, create it in the highest res you can because it can always be shrunk.

Keith

http://www.studiosoft.co.uk

 

[apepp]

...powerpoint is not a desktop publishing program, it is a screen display program and should be avoided for print work...

...MS Word falls into the same category in many ways, but if you know what your doing then you can get by with using MS Word/Powerpont in some print projects...

...but really, if you want quality printed work then you need a page layout program, like publisher (designers avoid that one too really), Adobe Suite, Quark...

...having said that, Powerpoint can save to PDF format (file > save as > change to PDF), which will produce better quality printed text and pictures...

...but beware, your "source" inserted bitmap images need to be of sufficient pixel resolution in the first place...

...it is also worth pointing out that text (even at 300 dpi) does't look as crisp as true vector text, so typesetting is again best done in a page layout program, not GIMP or Photoshop...

...GIMP is a free bitmap program by the way, bit like Photoshop...

...so all in all, use powerpoint carefully and you can get a printed result, but save to PDF and not a bitmap format like jpeg...




andrew

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[apepp]

...also to add to my above post...

...in powerpoint, file > save as, you have the options button, bottom left of the save dialog...

...in there you have settings that control how image formats are saved for slides, so when you save as a jpeg (like in your example), the settings here are applied...

...these settings will make your bitmap images rendered from powerpoint at low res, unless you have it setup like this then it will preserve as much resolution as possible:

http://www.zen63258.zen.co.uk/tek/Screen shot 2009-12-11 at 23.07.12.png

andrew

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[apepp]

...again though, your source images need to have enough pixel/resolution information to begin with, but saving to PDF would be the way to go to preserve vector elements and text elements as crisp printable objects...




andrew

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