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Technical advances have led to the advent of new forms of visual material in conference settings – the most notable of them being PowerPoint presentations. Long gone are the days when hastily scribbled notes would be delivered to the booth at the last minute, which allowed conference interpreters little to no time to prepare for. Instead, they now enjoy access to elaborately prepared PowerPoint presentations delivered online in advance. However, interpreters are now faced with new issues as PowerPoint presentations tend to differ in both style and density, sometimes exposing the interpreter to too much information while at others providing next to no information should the presentation be mostly image rather than text-based. The purpose of this paper is to gain insight into the perception that interpreters hold of such PowerPoint presentations when it comes to preparing for a conference.