RadPix PowerPoint® ® Solutions and Tips

RadPix is a Windows® program that facilitates the creation of radiological presentations for educational and documentation purposes.  A 30 day free trial is available at http://www.RadPix.com/index.html.

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Possibly the most important time saving effort that can be done is to first create a Master Slide.  In PowerPoint® , View / Master.  Here you can modify the default font sizes and colors.  To change the background of the slides, Format / Background, then click the drop down menu (small arrow pointing down).  Select a new color, and then click Apply to All.  Other options are available under More Colors and Fill Effects.

Click here to go to Master Slide Help.

1.  When I load images into RadPix, they need to be rotated.

There are several rotate buttons on the left side of the RadPix screen, including rotate 90° and rotate 180°.  A new feature in Office XP allows you to rotate images.  In PowerPoint® , right click on the image and select Format Picture, and Size tab.  The rotation of the image can be adjusted by changing the Rotation value.  CAVEAT.  Images rotated in PowerPoint® XP® will not be shown correctly rotated if the file is later viewed with an earlier version of PowerPoint® . The solution is to first rotate the images in RadPix.  JPG, TIFF and other graphic files can also be rotated in RadPix.

Presentation Creation Tips

1.  I am converting my film collection to digital, and it takes a long time to insert each JPG of TIFF image into PowerPoint® ® .

Use RadPix's Drag and Drop to load and then export all images into a PowerPoint® ® file, each image on a separate slide.  o do this in 1 step, saving hours of work by following these steps.

  1. Open Windows® Explorer (Click on My Computer).
  2. Navigate to folder where digital camera of scanner images are.
  3. Select all images in folder (Press Control-A or highlight all with a mouse)
  4. While holding the left mouse button, drag images into an open RadPix window and release mouse.  All images will then be loaded into RadPix.
  5. In RadPix, select Export pulldown menu, then Export PowerPoint® Presentation...
  6. A dialog box will appear with several options.  Set the filename and path.  Click the Grayscale checkbox to automatically convert the images.  This is especially useful when the original film was blue-based.
  7. Under JPG quality, 70 is recommended, but more or less may be used.
  8. Click Make Slide and you are done.
  9. To easily insert the images into a PowerPoint® ® file, Open both the destination PowerPoint® ® file and the images PowerPoint® ® file you just created.  Select Side Sorter under View pull down menu for each presentation.  Then select Window pull down menu, then Arrange All.  Both presentations will then be visible, and you can then drag slides from one presentation to the other. 

Presentation Tips

1.  The letters on my slides in Presentation mode are pixellated.  Can this be improved? 

There is a Windows® setting which will dramatically improve the quality of the text on your slides.  Click on Windows® Start Menu / Settings / Control Panel / Display.  In Windows® 98 and Windows® NT, click the Plus tab, and check the Smooth Edges of Screen Fonts box.  In Windows® 98, this was part of the additional Plus package.  In Windows® XP, the default is smooth fonts.

When you then are in presentation mode, the text will be smoother.  Note: This is a Windows® setting, meaning that the change is made on the computer that you make the change on, and not the PowerPoint® file.  Check this box on every different computer you use for this effect.

2.  I want to use the mouse as a pointing tool, but it is hard to see onscreen.

Change the mouse!  Click on the Windows®  Start Menu / Settings / Control Panel / Mouse.  Click on Pointers tab, and then the Scheme menu.  There are many different to choose from, but those with "(Extra Large)" in the name are recommended.  "Windows® Inverted (Extra Large)" is very easy to see, as the mouse is always displayed in the inverse color of the area it is over.

3.  When I am giving a presentation, I would like it to automatically go into presentation mode when I click on the icon.  How? 

When you have finished your presentation in PowerPoint® , do a Save As, and Select PowerPoint® Show (*.pps) from the pull down menu instead of Presentation (*.ppt).  Then when you click the icon, it will automatically start full screen.  If you do this, you can later edit the presentation by FIRST loading PowerPoint® , then File / Open, and then navigate your way to your presentation.  You will be unable to edit the file if you try to open it by clicking on it (because it goes right into full screen presentation mode). 

Alternatively, you can just change the filename extension, .ppt to .pps for the same effect.

 1.  There are images in a PowerPoint® file that I would like to save as JPG's?  When I copy and paste into a graphics program, the resulting image is pixellated.  How can I do this? 

Copy the image to the clipboard, and paste the image into a bitmap editing program, such as Windows® Paint.  This works on the version of Paint which comes with Windows® 98 and Windows® NT, but not on Windows® XP.  Paint can be found on your computer under Start Menu / Program Files / Accessories.

More tips can be found on the RadPix website under FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS.

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