Placeholder images showing up strangely, text boxes appear above title
Tejas Gopal
There are some strange issues with the images and logos that are surfacing.
1) It will include some little text boxes at the top above the title even though I prompted Gamma not to in additional instructions.
2) And sometimes also include placeholder images are inserted even though I told Gamma specifically not to insert any placeholder images.
Any thoughts on how we can fix this?
Tejas Gopal
Nik Payne (Gamma design) hey just checking in to see if you had any follow ups on actions I could take to resolve this issue.
Nik Payne (Gamma design)
Ah weird — sorry you’re running into that, and thanks for flagging. A couple quick Qs so we can pin it down:
- When you see the little text boxes above the title, are they showing up in the editor, in Present mode, or only after export/share? (And what browser + OS are you on?)
- For the placeholder images/logos: are they coming from a specific theme/template, or only when you use a certain prompt? If you can share the exact prompt + “additional instructions” you used (and ideally a screenshot or quick Loom of what you’re seeing), that’d help us reproduce and get a fix in motion.
Tejas Gopal
Nik Payne (Gamma design)
Hey Nik,
I appreciate your quick reply. I am utilizing the API so most of my verbiage is around that. I'm on Windows. In the Gamma Web Browser things look better but I'm talking about in the downloadable pptx that is generated. Yes I am utilizing a theme, no template.
The additional instructions look like this:
Note that you are talking to pharmaceutical manufacturer stakeholders, not providers. Make the title informative, only utilize a title and nothing else should go at the top. Also no need to mention the steps in the title. Try not to have a lot of empty space in slides, make analysis font readable (not too small). Also utilize box formats for text and other formats when possible, so essentially try to avoid having the entirety of a slide just be text on a white background. Don't insert placeholder images and do not include symbols of awards. Stick to utilizing medical and data symbols. When I say "Bar Diagram" I mean a bar diagram with vertical bars showcasing the data. It shouldn't take the whole slide and should be side by side with the combined interpretation. The y axis should showcase numbers while the x axis should be the category. Use whole numbers for the y axis intervals, not decimals. One edge case is that if there's no data for a step, just make a slide that says "no data available for this step". The overall flow should be: Slide 1: Title slide with the topic of the presentation which should reference the prompt. Slide 2: Analysis on Step 1 alongside a pie chart diagram.
The inputText prompt is largely sensitive information around healthcare data that I can't share but it's not as important for the bug I believe. The slides are condensing down that information and that part is fine.
The overall API request payload looks like this:
create_payload = {
"inputText": full_prompt,
"textMode": "generate",
"format": "presentation",
"themeId": POWERPOINT_THEME,
"numCards": slide_amount,
"cardSplit": "auto",
"additionalInstructions": additional_instructions,
"exportAs": "pptx",
"textOptions": {
"amount": "medium",
"tone": "professional, analytical",
"audience": "You are speaking to business stakeholders.",
"language": "en",
},
"imageOptions": {
"source": "noImages",
},
}
And finally I will attach some example slides with the issues.
Thanks again!