Blurry Text - Smart Art

Feb 15, 2011

I have created a number of slides using SmartArt in PowerPoint with text on the image.  When I ungroup the image to synch the varoius elements with the audio and then animate the elements it is blurry in the published version but looks fine on the ppt.  I've been trying to figure this out all day with the various fixes I've come across in this forum but so far, nothing has done the trick.  Need help desperately.  Thanks!

4 Replies
Justin Wilcox

When text is blurry that simply  means that Presenter had to convert the object as a raster versus vector object. A rasterized object will be blurry compared to a vector object. A couple of things you could do, depending on the object:

  1. Right click the object and save it as an image. Replace the object with the image.
  2. Delete the text from the object. Create a new text box and add the text to the text box.
Peter Anderson

Hi Rosanna, welcome to Heroes!

After saving as an image and replacing the SmartArt, you can animate the new image in the same way as the SmartArt object. For example, the Picture Accent List SmartArt object has three columns that you can choose to animate in all at once. Once that object is saved as an image, all three columns can be animated in the same way.  Is that what you're asking?

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