Previewing printouts in Tiger

Join David Rivers for an in-depth discussion in this video Previewing printouts in Tiger, part of PowerPoint 2008 for Mac Essential Training.

This chapter is going to be all about printing in PowerPoint 2008.…When I say printing I am not just talking about the slides in your presentation, there are other components you can consider.…Maybe you want to have notes up at a podium, you can print out speaker notes, same thing goes for handouts to your audience.…There are different ways to adjust the slides on pages that can be printed and handed out to the audience.…You can print outlines and before you start sending huge presentations to a printer, its a good idea to see what its going…to look like before you send it to the printer, in case there any adjustments you need to make.…

So in this lesson, we are going to explore previewing your presentations…and your handouts and speaker notes and so on before printing.…On the Mac here, we use the Preview tool to preview our presentations, to preview our handouts, to preview speaker notes…and so on before sending them to the printer.…If you are moving to a Mac from a Windows PC, for example, we don't have a Preview function here…

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Q: Despite following the directions in the “Creating PowerPoint movies” video, the movie of the PowerPoint presentation is very pixelated. Additionally, it does not contain any of the animations. What could be causing this problem?

A: There are some issues with saving a PowerPoint presentation to a movie. For one, animation effects will not appear in your QuickTime movie, nor will sounds associated with animation effects. If you must have animation effects and sounds in your movie, check out Snapz Pro X from Ambrosia Software, Inc., which can record your slideshow as you present it on-screen, with all its animation effects and sounds. Then you can save the recording as a QuickTime movie. Pixelation won't be an issue using Snapz Pro either, as you can set the recording to a higher resolution to match the full-screen version of your slideshow. Unfortunately, this issue has not been rectified in PowerPoint 2011 either. So, for the time being, this try this workaround.