The logo was rendered antialiased against a white background OR you used white as the Matte colour when you used Save For Web. (You did use Save for Web, right?)
If you must use GIF, then either choose none for your matte colour or choose a colour close to the ambient colour in your background in Powerpoint. If you only need to use WaterBoarding, I mean PowerPoint, then use PNG 24 with transparency instead.
Melinda,
By any chance does Powerpoint accept Illustrator or .eps files? If so, then leave the logo as a vector file. You’ll have crisp edges without "halos".
Neil
Neil,
If I recall correctly, PowerPoint does not accept eps or other vector files. PNG is definitely the way to go.
PowerPoint can accept EPS, if the optional add-in is installed, but the rendering is pretty bad. Likewise, PNG may need an optional add-in, especially in older versions of PowerPoint.
If crispiness is expected, save the vector logo from Illustrator as a vector WMF, which PowerPoint renders and scales well. There is no need for Photoshop here.
save the vector logo from Illustrator as a vector WMF, which PowerPoint renders and scales well…
but Illustrator exports extremely badly. PNG is the best option.
PNG 24 is the only way to go. and you don’t need a plugin if you are using an OSX native version.
Thanks for all the responses. Very much appreciated. Couple quick questions.
I did change matte to "none," (had thought that blank box meant none and hadn’t actually selected "none," my woops) and that worked great to get rid of the white pixels around the logo and words. The logo is still "grainy" though when placed into Powerpoint, is that just to be expected given it’s a GIF?
The PNG 24 solution worked great for the text, very nice and smooth, but part of the logo is a vector globe and when placed into Powerpoint there is an odd shaped white box around some of the globe and some of the text, but not the rest of the logo…. any idea on why that would happen? And it also appears that you cannot resize a PNG 24 file in Powerpoint without serious pixelating….
PNG 24 is a raster format. Resize any raster format and you get pixelation. The solution is to scale in Illustrator. Either scale then Save for Web or enter a new size in the S4W export. Can you post an image of the white box you’re getting? Maybe show us the actual exported PNG as well as a screen shot of the image placed in PowerPoint. PowerPoint is bloody awful, but I’ve never had a problem displaying PNG images in it.
The solution is to scale in Illustrator.
That is the same solution to export a good vector WMF file.
