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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>One should be very careful in using RTF as the means of transferring PowerPoint slides to a FrameMaker document.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>The last several versions of Microsoft Office applications support live transparency (drop shadows, reflections, clipped images, etc.) and saving to RTF from these applications supports this. <i>However</i>, FrameMaker’s imaging model does not support live transparency in any way. Transparency effects from RTF will likely be lost or misinterpreted when brought into a FrameMaker document.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Thus, is you want the highest fidelity for such PowerPoint slides when importing into FrameMaker, use the Acrobat “Save as PDF” function from Microsoft PowerPoint and then import into FrameMaker. Such content is obviously <i>not </i>editable, but will maintain graphical integrity.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>If you need to be able to edit the slide content in FrameMaker, RTF is a solution as long as you understand that you will probably <i>not </i>maintain graphical integrity!<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'> - Dov<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style='border:none;border-left:solid blue 1.5pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 4.0pt'><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> framers-bounces@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-bounces@lists.frameusers.com] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Alan Litchfield<br><b>Sent:</b> Friday, October 07, 2011 8:39 PM<br><b>To:</b> Rick Quatro<br><b>Cc:</b> framers@lists.frameusers.com<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: PowerPoint to Framemaker<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Or export from Powerpoint as rtf.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Alan<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>On 8/10/2011, at 1:33 PM, Rick Quatro wrote:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>> Hi Gillian,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>> If you don’t need to edit the slides in FrameMaker, you could save them as PDF and import the PDF into your FrameMaker document.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>> Rick Quatro<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>> Carmen Publishing Inc.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>> 585-659-8267<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>> <a href="mailto:rick@frameexpert.com">rick@frameexpert.com</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>> From: <a href="mailto:framers-bounces@lists.frameusers.com">framers-bounces@lists.frameusers.com</a> <a href="mailto:[mailto:framers-bounces@lists.frameusers.com]">[mailto:framers-bounces@lists.frameusers.com]</a> On Behalf Of Flato, Gillian<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>> Sent: Friday, October 07, 2011 8:02 PM<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>> To: <a href="mailto:framers@lists.frameusers.com">framers@lists.frameusers.com</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>> Subject: PowerPoint to Framemaker<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>> Anyone know a utility for converting PowerPoint slides with lots of graphics to FrameMaker, or something that can be imported into Frame?<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>> Thank you,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>> Gillian Flato<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>> Senior Technical Writer (Software)<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>> nanometrics<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>> 1550 Buckeye Dr.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>> Milpitas, CA. 95035<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>> (408.545.6316<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>> 7 408.232.5911<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>> * <a href="mailto:gflato@nanometrics.com">gflato@nanometrics.com</a><o:p></o:p></p></div></div></body></html>