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Mac Forum / Applications / PowerPoint / September 2005Images not visible on slides produced with Powerpoint 2000 (Windows version)
Recently a Windows user colleague sent me a presentation that had a few slides where I couldn't see the pictures; I could select it only (placeholders appear) . If I double-click on the picture, I get the follwoing message: "The server application, source file or item cannot be found. Check that the path and file name are correct, or try reinstalling the server application." This happened with 2 slides only (on a total of more than 30). I have never encountered thsi problem before. I am running the latest version of Office 2004; the latest SP2 didn't solve the issue. Windows users don't have any issue with the slide. Is there a solution? Thank you. Denis Denis see Can't edit Org Chart, Graph, Excel (error msg: "server application, source file, or item can't be found") http://www.rdpslides.com/pptfaq/FAQ00236.htm Cheers TAJ Simmons microsoft powerpoint mvp awesome - powerpoint backgrounds, http://www.awesomebackgrounds.com free powerpoint templates, tutorials, hints, tips and more... > Recently a Windows user colleague sent me a presentation that had a few > slides where I couldn't see the pictures; I could select it only [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > Thank you. > Denis > Recently a Windows user colleague sent me a presentation that had a few > slides where I couldn't see the pictures; I could select it only [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > didn't solve the issue. Windows users don't have any issue with the > slide. Is there a solution? The fact that you got this message means that you have OLE/ActiveX/TermOfTheWeek objects rather than normal pictures. As these aren't supported on Mac, there's not a lot you can do. If you can, ask the person who created the file to select the "problem" graphics and ungroup them, then re-save to a new file and send you that. ================================================ Steve Rindsberg, PPT MVP PPT FAQ: www.pptfaq.com PPTools: www.pptools.com ================================================ Thank you for the hint. however, I am not sure as the invisible element is a picture (probably a JPEG). > Thank you for the hint. however, I am not sure as the invisible element > is a picture (probably a JPEG). Possibly, but if the user who created the file opened the JPEG in some other app and copy/pasted it into PPT, it's not a JPG, it's an OLE object which happens to contain JPG data. Similar, but not quite the same thing on a PC, and very different on a Mac, which can't look inside the OLE to see the data inside. ================================================ Steve Rindsberg, PPT MVP PPT FAQ: www.pptfaq.com PPTools: www.pptools.com ================================================ > > Thank you for the hint. however, I am not sure as the invisible element > > is a picture (probably a JPEG). [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] > PPTools: www.pptools.com > ================================================ Hi Steve, Thanks for your feedback. The same issue happened again today with a colleague that copied a picture from Adobe Reader to Powerpoint (Windows 2000). With Adobe reader, to copy an image you use the "camera" to select an area to copy. We found that if my colleague do a "Paste special" and "Picture" into Powerpoint, I can't see the picture.However, if he pastes "Bit Map or "device independent bit map" it works fine with me. Regards, Denis |
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