Not sure whether this is meant to happen - certainly not what I wanted. There may be something I have missed in the shapes, but am I doing something wrong here, or is this something I need to report?
Does that shape happen to be a group or a bitmap? I only ask because there's a really hard shadow behind it. If you brought this in as a bitmap (or imported a shape combination from PPT that was converted to a bitmap) the format painter will paint the settings into the background of the alpha channel, leaving your foreground bitmap elements untouched.
I'm thinking the paste from PowerPoint brought the shapes over as a bitmap. You can confirm this by zooming in on the edges of your oval shape. If it pixelates, it's a bitmap. That would explain the behavior of the format painter.
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Heya, Bruce -
Does that shape happen to be a group or a bitmap? I only ask because there's a really hard shadow behind it. If you brought this in as a bitmap (or imported a shape combination from PPT that was converted to a bitmap) the format painter will paint the settings into the background of the alpha channel, leaving your foreground bitmap elements untouched.
Hi Steve,
All I did was copy and paste from existing .ppt file.
Funny thing is that if I go and insert a new Oval, then go back to the original, and use the Format Painter again, it all works fine.
Bruce
Hi, Bruce -
I'm thinking the paste from PowerPoint brought the shapes over as a bitmap. You can confirm this by zooming in on the edges of your oval shape. If it pixelates, it's a bitmap. That would explain the behavior of the format painter.
Yep - looks like that's the issue.
Thanks Steve.
Bruce
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