Here's the situation:


- I insert an image
- I put an 8pt white line around the image
- I rotate the image.
- A dashed line appears at the edges of the images (between the edge of the image and where the border shows up.

Help?

I just tried and cannot duplicate your problem.

The steps I followed were:
1 Created a new presentation
2 Applied "Black" theme
3 Inserted a new slide
4 Chose "Insert Picture from File"
5 Right-clicked the picture, chose "Format Picture..."
6 Chose "Line", color "White", weight "8 pt"
7 At the toolbar chose "Arrange" Rotate or Flip" from the drop-down menu
8 Rotated the image

No dashed line appears. I've done it twice now, even rotated both right and left.

Hopefully you can spot something I've done differently in the steps that will help. If so, let us know what.

Also, does the dashed line show up when you view the slideshow or just when you are in design mode? I've had things show up while I'm designing that don't show when I present.

Hi-thanks for running through this. Unfortunately, I'm seeing a jagged edge regardless--it's like it's not rendering smoothly.

If you're curious, could you try it with an image that has a mostly-white background? (like a photo of something isolated on white) I'd be curious to know if you can see it then. It's much more pronounced when it's that type of photo, and shows up both in design view and in presentation view. I'm using a 5 degree angle of rotation.

Thanks for your input!

I will try to check it out this evening after work. I am just about to leave for work right now.

I have uploaded the file I worked on and referred to earlier so you can see it. Unfortunately I had to re-save it as PowerPoint 97-2004 to upload it because pptx is not an allowed file type for uploading here. Docx and xlsx are OK, but not pptx. Obviously an oversight on the part of the Mods. I will contact them about that.

Meanwhile, can you re-save your file as PowerPoint 97-2004 (for now at least) and upload it so I can take a look at it? Just the slide with the problem would be fine.

I rotated 90°, I'll try it with another angle of rotation. That may be why I'm not seeing it.

Attached Files

Outline Problem Example for MS Office Forum.ppt (207.0 KB, 9 views)

Attached is a screenshot of the sample ppt. (Even with just one slide the ppt is bigger than the forums will allow for upload.)

Unfortunately, it seems that with any "isolated on white" type image, there's a visible gap of sorts right from the get-go, whether at 0 degrees or 90 degrees or 5 degrees.

Attached Images

samplerotatescreenshot.jpg (78.1 KB, 8 views)

Well, I tried it with 15° rotation, still no dashed outlines.

I've uploaded a version of that for you check out too.

Attached Files

Outline Problem Example for MS Office Forum-15 Degree Rotation.ppt (209.5 KB, 8 views)

Drehorst: please zip it first, zip file is up to 2MB.

here's the file. Assuming the forum doesn't care about the zip contents, I just left it as the pptx file.

Attached Files

rotatesample.zip (1.11 MB, 8 views)

I'm on a PC but I can repro that. What you are seeing is jaggies causing "holes" between the frame and the pic so you can see through to the black background.
I don't think you can solve the jaggies but if you put a white rectangle behing the photo (a tiny bit smaller or exactly the same size) and group you shouldn't see the black.

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