Message-Id: <mailto:199511081512.JAA08519@library.wustl.edu> Date: Wed, 8 Nov 1995 10:04:11 -0500 From: Jon Reynolds <mailto:REYNOLDJ@GUNET.GEORGETOWN.EDU> Subject: Re: Powerpoint to .GIF: copyright implications -Reply To: Multiple recipients of list IMAGELIB
Interesting point. The raw materials provided by power point should be and probably are protected. I'm not talking about putting these on the web. But if you use their tools to create a logo, do they have rights in the logo? I wouldn't think so.As to the suggested conversions, they work, but not well enough to be useful. For those who haven't used powerpoint, I should say that it allows you to make great screens in about 30 seconds. In this case, a color gradient background with an embossed world map, and 3-d text on the think tank I was advising. When converted to GIF, I lose all the gradient and it is much too large. Then when I re-scale it, the quality goes all to hell. I realize there are other tools to use to get the same product, but this isn't my job, or even close to it. It is more like work done in lieu of coffee breaks.
Maybe I should be asking about freeware sources of world outline maps and color gradients.
Thanks to all...
Jon Reynolds