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Mac Forum / Applications / PowerPoint / May 2007Problem with Compress Graphic files in Save As Options
I have PowerPoint 2004 for MAC 11.2 I've read loads of postings but can't find anyone whos asked exactly the right questions, so gere goes.... My PPshow is 180MB, it has lots of photos in it. I want to compress the whole show, keeping it as a PowerPoint, and not converting it to .jpg's etc. If I open this presentation in a Windows XP PC, I am able to do a 'Save As', go to 'Tools', select 'Compress Images', choose 200 or 96 dpi, hit save, and hey presto my presnetion becomes 12.6MB. A massive difference I know. If I do the same on the MAC, following the help instructions, 'Save As', 'Options', selecting even 72dpi, and ticking the 'Compress Graphics files' box, setting image quality to 'least', then saving it, it makes no difference to the file size!!! It takes 5MB off tops. Why is it so easy to do on a PC, something I do a lot for clients at work, but yet I'm unable to do it with the MAC version at home? Please can anyone help? > I have PowerPoint 2004 for MAC 11.2 > [quoted text clipped - 17 lines] > Why is it so easy to do on a PC, something I do a lot for clients at > work, but yet I'm unable to do it with the MAC version at home? The fact that the file shrunk a bit when you did the save as was sheer coincidence. Save As, Graphics saves out each slide as a graphics file; it doesn't do anything to the presentation itself. Unfortunately, PPT 2004 doesn't have the compress graphics feature that the PC versions do. ================================================ Steve Rindsberg, PPT MVP PPT FAQ: www.pptfaq.com PPTools: www.pptools.com ================================================ Hi Skatekday, There's a reason why the options you chose don't work correctly. I'm hoping they'll have time to fix this for Office 2008. -Jim Gordon Mac MVP Quoting from "skateday@googlemail.com" <skateday@googlemail.com>, in article 1178828686.542930.239730@p77g2000hsh.googlegroups.com, on [DATE: > I have PowerPoint 2004 for MAC 11.2 > [quoted text clipped - 19 lines] > > Please can anyone help?  SignatureJim Gordon Mac MVP MVPs are not Microsoft Employees MVP info http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/ > Hi Skatekday, > > There's a reason why the options you chose don't work correctly. I'm hoping > they'll have time to fix this for Office 2008. Those options appear in a frame captioned something like "Save slides as graphics files". In other words, they don't apply when saving as PPT. But look at the bright side: the Windows version doesn't give you any options when saving as graphics files. <g> > In article <C2696467.19F2F%goldke...@WarmerThanWarmMail.com>, Jim Gordon MVP > wrote: [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] > But look at the bright side: the Windows version doesn't give you any options > when saving as graphics files. <g> Thanks for your responses. Glad to know I'm not going mad, and that theres no fault as such. Seems a bit stupid that the Mac version can't do, what is a really useful feature that I use at work all the time. It saves at lot of time in pre-presentation image processing, and allows more flexibility if you just chuck in a large image that your not sure what to do with. You can still stretch it without pixelation, if you need to; then when you do the save, you can compress away all the excess info. I hope they fix this sometime soon. Thanks again, skateday > Thanks for your responses. Glad to know I'm not going mad, and that > theres no fault as such. Seems a bit stupid that the Mac version can't > do, what is a really useful feature that I use at work all the time. Here's hoping they add it to the next version. You might want to use the Help/Contact feature to pass along your (already well-put) request. Every vote helps. > It saves at lot of time in pre-presentation image processing, and > allows more flexibility if you just chuck in a large image that your > not sure what to do with. You can still stretch it without pixelation, > if you need to; then when you do the save, you can compress away all > the excess info. [loud amen from the choir] Couldn't agree with you more ... we have an addin that does this on the PC version, in fact, and apparently it's one of the most needed add-in features out there, judging by the number of competitors we have. <g> ================================================ Steve Rindsberg, PPT MVP PPT FAQ: www.pptfaq.com PPTools: www.pptools.com ================================================ > I have PowerPoint 2004 for MAC 11.2 > [quoted text clipped - 19 lines] > > Please can anyone help? AFAIK you can't do it - we've had this problem for ages, and we get around it by printing document out to Adobe Acrobat and presenting using the full screen feature of Acrobat. Works quite well, but you lose any animations (we don't use them so not a problem for us). Acrobat Pro contains a neat utility to 'optimise pdf' which makes a small pdf produced from PPT slides even smaller by eliminating some redundant features in the pdf file. |
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