Rainbow PDF Server Based Converter V3.0 converts Microsoft Power Point 97-2007 Presentation files to PDF and SVG. The Windows version also supports conversions to into JPEG or PNG or TIFF or Multi-page TIFF.
MS PowerPoint Document
Rainbow PDF Server Based Converter V3.0 supports the following Microsoft PowerPoint file formats.
- .ppt, .pot, .pps extensions created with:
Microsoft PowerPoint 97 for Windows
Microsoft PowerPoint 2000
Microsoft PowerPoint 2002
Microsoft PowerPoint 2003
Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007
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.pptx, .pptm, .potx, .potm, .potm, .ppsm extensions created with:
Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007
Transformation Specification
- One page will be outputted for every PowerPoint slide.
- The orientation and size of the outputted page adopts the PowerPoint page settings.
- PDF Output - all slides are outputted as a single PDF.
- SVG Output - each slide can be outputted as an individual SVG file, or all slides can be combined into a single SVG file.
- JPEG/PNG Output - one image file is outputted for each slide.
- Notes are disregarded.
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The following settings simulate PowerPoint:
- font name, font style, font size, and font effects
- alignment of a text box, or paragraph in text box
- A raster image is allocated as is.
- Although Autoshape most often simulates the original shape some shapes will output as a different shape or will not output at all.
Restrictions and Limitations
The following are limitations when converting from MS Power point.
- Characters of some WordArt might not be reproduced.
- Object shadows, text shadows and 3-D effects are not supported.
- Line height may not be set correctly.
- Text box margins might not reproduce correctly.
- Multimedia objects such as movies and sounds, etc. are disregarded.
- Gradation and translucent color may differ from MS PowerPoint.
- Animation is not supported. The output displayed is whatever appears after the Power Point animation operation ends.
- Password protected documents cannot be converted.
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In MS Office, if the character font doesn't have a corresponding glyph, another suitable font is substituted. Such substitutions do not occur with this product.
- WMF/EMF contained in documents made with an earlier version of MS Office 95, and saved again with a later version of MS Office 97, might not convert.
- OLE embedded objects and link objects cannot be displayed. (If the display information is embedded in the document, it might display.)
- If there is a long character string of tens of thousands of characters without the linefeed (CRLF), the conversion may fail.
- [Format Text Effects] and [Format Shape]
- When you select [Gradient fill] - [Type - Path] in the Format Shape dialog with PowerPoint2007, the converted result shows the same as when you select [Gradient fill] - [Type - Rectangular].
- When you specify [Gradient fill] - [Transparency] with PowerPoint2007, it will be ignored and the converted result shows only as 0%.
- When you specify [Gradient fill] - [Rotate with shape] with PowerPoint2007, it will be ignored and the converted result shows the same as when it is unchecked.
- When you specify [Picture or texture fill] - [Tiling Option] with PowerPoint2007, all settings of the option will be ignored and converted as [Scale X : 100%] and [Scale Y : 100%]
- When you specify [Picture or texture fill] and a picture is specified, the shape of the picture will be replaced with a rectangle.
- The specification of [Slide background fill] will be ignored.
- [3-D Format] and [3-D Rotation] are not supported. They are converted as if these are not specified.
- When you specify [Text Box] - [Autofit], the size of the text may not be reproduced correctly.
- [Picture or texture fill] and [Gradient fill] specified for filling color of text are disregarded.
- All the specifications for Text Outline are disregarded.
- [SmartArt] is not supported. It will be deleted.
- New [Shapes] added in Office2007 will not be converted. They will be deleted. Please note that some shapes which look like 2003 shapes are not converted if these are 2007's originals.
A 10-point Star will be converted as an 8-point Star, a 12-point Star will be converted as a16-point Star.
- When rotation or clipping are specified to a figure, Flip (reversal of right to left or the top to bottom) is disregarded.
- When an image is specified as the background of a figure, even if rotation is specified, the background image does not rotate.
- Transparent color specified to a figure is disregarded.
- Stylized text created by Office 2007 WordArt is not converted the same way.
- When an image is pasted on a figure, even if rotation is specified to the figure, the image does not rotate.
- When [Picture fill] and an image are simultaneously specified as the background of a figure, only the image becomes effective.
- ActiveX controls cannot be displayed. (If the information for display is embedded in the document, it might display).
- Form controls cannot be displayed. (If the information for display is embedded in the document, it might display).
- [Chart] in PowerPoint2007 is not supported. It will be deleted.
- [Underline] and [Strikethrough] in PowerPoint2007 are not supported. These will be converted into solid lines.
- Even if the "Times" font is specified, it is converted to "Times New Roman".
- Line breaks and space between lines are not the same as PowerPoint.
- Table colors are not converted correctly.
- The row height of a table may not be converted correctly.
- Shapes and positions of bullets may not be converted correctly.