[Year 12 IPM] Compressing Powerpoint Files_OT

[Keith Richardson]

That's great Mark - I did not know that! Which version of Powerpoint did
that come in at?
Cheers, Keith



On Wed, 13 Sep 2006 09:00:56 +1000, "Mark Kelly"
<kel at mckinnonsc.vic.edu.au> said:
> And, of course, instead of inserting pictures, you can link to them.
> 
> Before clicking "Insert" in the "Insert Picture" dialogue box when 
> selecting a picture, carefully look at the Insert button.  Notice the 
> down-arrow on the edge of the button?  Click the down-arrow and select 
> "Link to file".
> 
> This establishes a link to the pic (like a picture is linked to a HTML 
> page).  It keeps the file size WAY down, and allows easy editing of the 
> picture after the presentation is finished since the pix are still
> separate.
> 
> The only caveat is that the pix must be transported with the PPT or 
> they'll show up as broken links.  On the other hand, to distribute a 
> bare-bones PPT without the pix, you can easily just send the PPT without 
> including the pix.
> 
> Joseph Papaleo wrote:
> > Anne,
> > Using "Insert -> Picture -> From File"  instead of copying and pasting 
> > or dragging in also dramatically reduces the final product.
> > 
> > Joseph Papaleo
> > 
> > 
> > On 9/12/06, *Keith Richardson* <keithcr at fastmail.fm 
> > <mailto:keithcr at fastmail.fm>> wrote:
> > 
> >     Anne - the most important thing with Powerpoint files is that the
> >     pictures MUST be of a small filesize first. If not they will bloat the
> >     powerpoint filesize beyond recognition.
> >     Therefore, take each of the images, note the final screen dimensions
> >     you
> >     want (e.g. 300pixels wide for example) then using a program such as
> >     Irfanview, resize (Ctrl-R) to this, and apply a compression of, say 80,
> >     when saving to a jpg file type.
> >     Then delete each of the images and re-insert the size-reduced ones.
> >     Sounds messy, and it is, but the file size will reduce dramatically.
> >     NOTE - obviously, small sized images should have been used in the first
> >     place, but most of us forget about that.
> >     Cheers, Keith
> > 
> 
> 
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