PowerPoint. Is. Not. A. Graphics. Program.

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From: Cory Myers
Subject: PowerPoint. Is. Not. A. Graphics. Program.
Date: 18:44 on 30 Aug 2006
It cannot fill in the center of a closed polygon made from line  
"AutoShapes."

No paint buckets, apparently. And since PowerPoint---like Visual  
Studio---seems to use the absolutely meaningless "twip" as its  
preferred unit of measurement, creating *another* polygon, this one  
filled, to position it behind the *first*, manual polygon is an  
exercise in being so near yet so far.

There is absolutely no reason that one should have to take a  
screenshot, export to PNG, use The GIMP's paint bucket, re-export to  
PNG, and export into PowerPoint. *None whatsoever.*

Yet it was necessary.

Why, Microsoft, why?

C.

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