103^rd General Meeting
May 18 - May 22, 2003
Washington, DC

Links to Other Pages:

103^rd General Meeting Program Call for Abstracts
AV-Information
Preparing Your Presentation
The Speaker Ready Room
Handling Movies in your Presentation
PC User Considerations

Users of Apple Computers:

If you are producing your presentation on an Apple computer please be aware of the following issues. If you are using PowerPoint 2001, it is recommended that you install the Microsoft Office 2001 Service Release 1 before creating your presentation. You can find this at:

http://www.microsoft.com/mac/download/office2001/sr1.asp

(copy and paste the above following link into your browser).

Movies: QuickTime is not native to Windows computers. PowerPoint only supports QuickTime movies up to version 2.5. To insure the best chance of success create your movies as AVI files. In addition use Cinepak for compression instead of Sorenson. Movies saved as AVI's have the best chance of success on a Windows machine. You can also convert your movies to the mpeg format in QuickTime Pro. Please test your movies and presentation on a Windows machine before finalizing your show. The *.mp4 QuickTime files will not work cross platform.

Images: Use common image formats that are cross platform such as JPG, PNG, GIF, and BMP. Do not use PIC graphics in your Power Point.

Converting Existing Slides to Electronic Images: Slide conversion equipment will be available in the speaker ready room at the Convention Center. This equipment may also be found in well equipped photo and graphics shops. The equipment will scan the image on film and convert it into a electronic image that may then be inserted into you presentation. Please note that the process can take several minutes per image, so if you plan to use the the equipment in the Speaker Ready Room please allow plenty of time to accomplish the conversion.


Fonts: Use common cross platform fonts such as Times New Roman, Arial and Courier. It may be necessary to load your presentation onto a Windows machine. If this occurs, many custom Mac fonts will not translate properly.

Animations: Use simple entry animation effects, such as fly in/out, appear, and dissolve. Also, don't use exit animations: PowerPoint 2000 for Windows does not support exit animations. Furthermore, PowerPoint 2001 for Mac and PowerPoint X for Mac do not support PowerPoint XP for Windows animations. If you are creating a presentation in PowerPoint XP for display on a Macintosh computer, avoid using any animations.