The text effect in a SmartArt graphic appears grainy when you save a presentation or when you paste a SmartArt graphic in a 2007 Office program

Consider the following scenario. In Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007, you save a presentation as a picture. The presentation contains a SmartArt graphic. Or, you paste a SmartArt graphic as a picture in a 2007 Microsoft Office program. The SmartArt graphic has text that contains a text effect, such as one of the following effects:

• Bevel
• Glow
• Reflection
• Shadow

In this scenario, the text effect appears grainy.

Cause 1

This behavior occurs in PowerPoint 2007 when you save a presentation by using one of the following options:

• Windows Metafile (*.wmf)
• Enhanced Windows Metafile (*.emf)

Cause 2

This behavior also occurs in a 2007 Office program when you paste a SmartArt graphic by using one of the following options:

• Picture (Windows Metafile)
• Picture (Enhanced Metafile)

Workaround 1

To work around the behavior that is mentioned in Cause 1, save the PowerPoint 2007 presentation by using one of the following options:

• Device Independent Bitmap (*.bmp)
• GIF Graphics Interchange Format (*.gif)
• PNG Portable Network Graphics Format (*.png)
• JPEG File Interchange Format (*.jpg)

Workaround 2

To work around the behavior that is mentioned in Cause 2, paste the SmartArt graphic in a 2007 Office program by using one of the following options:

• Bitmap
• Picture (GIF)
• Picture (PNG)
• Picture (JPEG)