Maintaining sharp detail when copying maps to PowerPoint

[edwardtrevelyan]

In ArcMap 10.1 I created a map of New Mexico's counties. The counties are labeled with the county names. Because there are so many small counties, it is difficult to squeeze in the county names in such a way that they appear sharp and legible. When I was finally satisfied with the legibility in ArcMap, I tried various ways to move the map into PowerPoint. These included a straight copy-paste from ArcMap and initial exports into pdf, jpg, gif, bitmap, emf before copy-paste. In every case, the quality of the image was degraded such that legibilty was unacceptable in PowerPoint. Can anyone tell me the best way to do this? Thanks,
-- Edward Trevelyan

[NidhinKarthikeyan]

Edward,

Export the map to .pdf and use the 'Insert Object' option in Power Point.

[JustinWest]

When you do your export look at your Resolution dpi. I have had issues before where a lower dpi with a high Resample Ratio managed to get me a fairly good output. Depending on what you are doing I normally drop the dpi to about 150 and then work up from there.