Text Quality when Importing from PowerPoint

We're having to do a certain amount of importing from PowerPoint for productivity reasons. Some slides show good imported text and some slides show really scraggy text. I can't find any pattern behind this behaviour and have tried lots of different settings to try to get to the bottom of the issue.
Has anybody else encountered this? More's the point, has anybody else encountered it and managed to find out how to get consistently good text?

We're using Captivate 7. The powerpoint files are .pptx, either 2007 or 2010.
Standard Arial system font.
I don't know how the SMEs are creating the PowerPoint content, but I've tried it using both Powerpoint placeholders in the standard Office theme, and using inserted text boxes, and they all import and view just fine. There doesn't seem to be any pattern to when the text goes scraggy.

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