[OS X TeX] Powerpoint to eps

[David Watson]

I am in no way associated with Geometer's Sketchpad, my half-brother  
used it some at the Governor's School, and liked it  (when he was in  
11th grade and teaching his MathCounts group at his original school,  
whose team went to state and placed in the top-three) so I bought it  
for him. You should give it a demo, if you haven't already. I think  
it does vector output, but I can't be positively sure.

http://www.keypress.com/sketchpad/technical_support/faq/index.php


On Jun 19, 2006, at 7:24 PM, Victor Ivrii wrote:

> On 6/19/06, Jung-Tsung Shen <jushen at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 6/19/06, Victor Ivrii <vivrii at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> > While all the advices work, I am a bit surprised that software  
>> which does not
>> > recognize vector graphics (and transparency)  is used to draw  
>> figures
>> > which should be basically in this format. Omnigraffle can do a  
>> better
>> > job. Or one can use latex package pgf to create charts.
>>
>> Sometimes it's historical reason: the users had been using other
>> software and had had lots of charts, figures ... etc accumulated
>> before they started using LaTeX. It would be very time-consuming to
>> convert what you already have.
>
> I am involved with some mathematical high-school competitions and
> because of this sometimes I need to deal with problem sets (including
> geometric drawings) in MS Word. I found that the easiest, the least
> frustrating and not extremely time-consuming way to deal with them is
> to take the text (without all formatting which is insane anyway and
> any conversion program will produce something really ugly), make my
> own formatting and remake drawings from the scratch using pgf. One of
> the advantages is that if I decide to change the drawing I will do it
> very fast, which would not be the case if I imported the original
> bitmap graphics.
>
>> Sometimes there's just no reason, they
>> simply feel that particular software better suits their specific
>> purpose.
>
> My pretty limited experience with MS products suggests that they
> better suit just one very particular purpose: to drive user crazy :-)
>
>
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