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This is a killer. Jump in if you dare! I am creating an InDesign
document that will ultimately be saved as PDF and printed to a high-
quality laser printer. I need to pull some graphics (shapes, tables,
and even PowerPoint generated bar and pie charts) from PowerPoint and
import into InDesign (in InDesign they call it "place"). I've tried a
number of different ways and nothing really seems to work well. Saving
the PowerPoint slides out as PNG, TIFF, or JPG images creates low-res
blurry images that won't print well.

I thought the best thing to do would be to save the PowerPoint file as
a PDF, and then "place" various pdf pages into the InDesign document.
It works ok, but the problem is that anything in the original
PowerPoint graphics that included a gradient or a rounded corner looks
choppy and slightly distorted in the PDF and (obviously once placed in
InDesign. Also, any bar charts I have look odd as the lines become
jaggedy.

And keep in mind that once everything is placed in InDesign I am then
sending back out to PDF. So I'm basicaly doing this...

PowerPoint slide > saved to PDF > PDF imported/placed in InDesign >
InDesign saved to PDF.

Other than recreating absolutely everything (including bar charts) in
InDesign or Illustrator, can anyone suggest a decent way to take care
of this? I'm not worried about what it looks like on screen, the
important thing is that it prints nicely. ANY IDEAS ARE MUCH
APPRECIATED!!!!!

technical specs: PowerPoint 2007, Adobe InDesign CS3 (for the PC),
Windows Vista