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Sherri Malouf
USA
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 Posted - 19/11/2007 : 02:18:59
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Hi,
I was wondering how to create an "Auto Shape" or specific "line style" resembling gluon and photon. In other words, here is the too types of curves that I need to draw,
http://qalifba.googlepages.com/gluon-phton.pdf
your help is appreciated,
Verdana |
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Sherri Malouf
USA
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Posted - 20/11/2007 : 07:08:32
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lrcrabtree
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Posted - 20/11/2007 : 10:35:14
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Hi qrays,
welcome to the PowerPoint Presenters Forum.
To acheive the line designs that your link illustrates can really only be achieved using vector based programs such as Adobe Illustrator, or Adobe Flash. I would recommend Adobe Illustrator really for the job qrays because you can use paths to create these and many other similar effects quickly and efficiently.
Whilst Microsoft PowerPoint does itself allow you to create various shapes and lines, your link shows shapes that have been created as the result of various paths rather than purely straight lines or curved shapes such as ovals and circles. For this reason again I would strongly recommend using Adobe Illustrator to create these shapes and then save them in encapsulated postcript format (.eps) which means the shapes retain their vector states and so can be resized and scaled in PowerPoint when you import them without loss of clarity or quality.
Charles Henry
Creative Director, 123PPT
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Sherri Malouf
USA
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Posted - 22/11/2007 : 03:11:03
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Hi Charles,
Yes, I use Illustrator brush strokes to produce such figures. However, besides consuming a lot of pc memory it also doesn't give you an option to insert/write LaTeX mathematical expressions.
I was wondering if there is any special macro written for ppt that adds more "line styles". Here we need only two specific line styles. In this regard, I hope you wouldn't mind me asking following questions:
Is there any such add-in?
If no, is it possible to write it and how? :(
Many thanks,
Verdana |
Edited by - Sherri Malouf on 22/11/2007 03:14:13 |
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DontRlyKnow
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Posted - 22/11/2007 : 15:33:51
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| Looks like you did a pretty good job drawing it for the PDF - I'd be scared of trying to draw that as a freeform... I guess it's too easy to copy/paste it from the PDF version, use the transparency tool to remove the white and then save it out as a PNG? Do you need it to animate/change shape/ change colour? In which case if you can't properly animate it in PPT maybe you could create a GIF in photoshop and insert that? |
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Sherri Malouf
USA
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Posted - 22/11/2007 : 20:18:17
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png, gif, jpeg, bmp, tiff are all resolution lossy picture formats, they are get poor under zoom.
I always prefer eps, ai, fig, svg, wmf, emf as they are lossless!
This is very important for me.
I wish someone had written a macro and even SELL it. I would be the first buyer. :( |
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how to create gluon and photon?
