Incorrect Output of Lines

Hi Ananda - Have you tried grouping those lines first? Or maybe copy > paste as bitmap?

It's possible the lines are not drawing well due to their small size and close proximity.

Can you post that slide in the forums so some of us can take a closer look?

I've experienced the same issue. Changing line width doesn't correct it. The only current fix is to save the line art as a .png and re-import into the slide. Not a great fix, but it seems to be the only thing that works.

Hi David and Michael,

Thanks for your responses.

Strangely this is not the case when we use MS PowerPoint 2007.

The recent upgrade has killed me :(

I agree that the bitmap method does not work, in most cases

Cheers,

Ananda

Hi Ananda,

I would recommend you send us your project files so we can take a look and offer suggestions for you. You can send us your project files by following the steps here:

http://upload.articulate.com

Was an answer ever found for this issue?  It has cropped up for us also in PowerPoint 2010.

Welcome to Heroes, Ray!

Would you mind posting a one-slide sample for us to take a look at? Thanks!

I noticed this too after moving to PowerPoint 2010.

If you don't need to animate your drawings, the quickest approach is to group all the objects, right-click on the group, and select Save As Picture and save it as a PNG. Then import the PNG and delete the group. (You'll want to keep a back up of your PowerPoint-drawn slides in case you need to change them later.)

Another workaround is to right-click on the crooked line, select Format Shape, select 3D Rotation, and set the Z-value to 359.9°. While this almost always corrects the "crookedness" of the line, sometimes this workaround nearly doubles the size of your line, so it's not always a solution.

Saving the drawing as a graphic is not always a quick fix because I often need to animate segments of technical line drawings. I end up having to save a dozen or more little lines and reassemble them all into position before animating them. Very time consuming!

I hope Articulate can fix this soon. 

Hi Steve. Good call! Here's an article that oultines your approach:

http://www.articulate.com/support/presenter09/kb/?p=3234

Justin,

Here is the one slide file requested and I took a snippet of the same screen in Articulate.  Hope this helps and let me know if I can provide any further info. 

Thanks

Ray

And the snippet.

Thanks for the attachments, Ray. I think your best bet is to go with Steve's advice and save the group of images as a PNG and reinsert. Would that work for you?

No Ray none was found.

The copy and paste as PNG is what i use now. It has its own problems though as many times i do not get the exact sharpness that i want. *living w/ it*

issue #2 - How do it edit, if needed -

For this I retain the diagram on the screen, group it and via the 'select pane' close the eye so that it is not visible on the screen.

Articulate does not publish objects that are invisible *thanks guys*.

So if i want to revisit the diagram later, i can delete the PNG, make changes to the editable diagram and redo the Paste as Graphic bit.

Cheers!

Thanks for sharing, Ananda!

Ananda, just be certain that any objects you hide do not have animations assigned to them. My experience has been that hidden objects with animations assigned to them can cause problems with the published output of those slides. 

Welcome Peter.

WoW Steve, Thanks for sharing that. I have noticed that once i shut the eye, the animation actually are removed from the animation pane, but will take care of this aspect as well.

Cheers,

Ananda

Right, you will see them disappear from the animation pane but you'll also likely see that the numbering of the animations is messed up. For example, if your hidden object has been assigned the second on-click animation, your on-click animations in the animation pane may now be numbered 1, 3, 4...

Hi, just a quick confirmation that Steve’s 3D-rotation pointer above worked a treat.

In my case, I have two bright red horizontal rules at the top and bottom of the slide, and Articulate exported them slightly off horizontal. Through a bit of trial and error, I found that setting 3D-rotation --> Y to 180° fixed it up a treat. Far nicer than converting to bitmap and re-importing!

Now to get Articulate to kern text properly…