Overly large screenshot reduced in size by HansV – please don’t post pictures over 640 x 480 in size.
I am working on a contract job that requires that I use a specific design and that design is not working will with the longer titles some of the slides need.
The JPG file below shows the problem. As you can see, the white letters in the title work well against the black-and-blue lined title area when the title is short enough to stay in the title area. However, when the title extends into the text area, the white letters are almost invisible against the light blue background.
One possible solution is to expand the title area, as shown in JPG. However, this is not consistent with the design and the slanting vertical white line intersects the text and makes it hard to read so this is out.
Another possible solution is to make the text smaller. In fact, the JPG has the text reduced from the default of 42-points for the title area down to 38-points already and there is still well too much text. This particular title would have to go down to 32-points before it would fit on a single line. This is very inconsistent with the design and 32-points is hardly a title at all.
When the title takes two lines and the bottom line contains a
