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I have several large inserted jpg images in Powerpoint 2007. I have used the Compress Pictures options following the directions at:
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/powerpoint-help/reduce-the-file-size-of-a-picture-HA010192200.aspx?redir=0
[ ] Apply to selected pictures only
Compression options:
[X] Automatically perform basic compression on save
[X] Delete cropped areas of pictures
Target output
[X] E-mail (96 ppi) minimize document size for sharing
Yet the pictures will NOT compress and will NOT remove the cropped areas after saving. If I do this in Powerpoint 2003 it works perfectly but not 2007. I have tried it in Excel, Word & Powerpoint 2007 and the compression does not work in any of them.
Thanks for confirming!
If you're dealing with CMYK images, I think the quick solution will be to select the image, CTRL+X to cut it, Ctrl+Alt+V to paste special and choose JPG or PNG. That should create RGB images on the slide, and those should compress. (They did for Nixk when he/she did it, anyway!)
Probably this process could be made into a macro to make the it faster to do.
How did you insert the image onto the slide?
What kind of picture is it?
Is there more than one of the same image in the file?
If you inserted the images then saved the presentation in 2007, it's already compressed the images at whatever the default setting is and probably won't compress them again.
As a test, start a new presentation, insert a couple of the same pictures, crop, then compress BEFORE saving.
Please confirm which version of PPT you're using.
How did you insert the images onto the slides?
I am using Office 2007 on Windows 7. Images were created using Adobe Illustrator and exported as high quality tiff files and inserted into powerpoint (or word) using the insert picture option.
I ended up solving it by inserting the picture, copying it, pasting it as PNG, then deleting the tiff file. This way, the picture did become compressed and the cropped areas were removed.
Yes, the images were CMYK. That seems to be the cause, I saved a new tiff picture with RGB and now it compresses like it should. Thank you.
This is definitely the problem CYMK vs RGB. I had my art department prepare two JPGs, one as CYMK the other as RGB. The CYMK will NOT compress in Powerpoint 2007 & Excel 2007. RGB compresses fine.
Table of Compression working or not
Office 2007 CYMK RBG
Powerpoint 2007 N Y
Excel 2007 N Y
Word 2007 Y&N Y (if old style compress option Y, if new option then N)
Office 2003
Powerpoint 2003 Y Y
Excel 2003 Y Y
Word 2003 Y Y
In Word 2007 sometimes if I right click the picture I get the old style of Compress button as in Word 2003, in that case compression works for CYMK, if the “new” 2007 compress option appears in Word 2007 (like in Powerpoint & Excel 2007) then CYMK compression does not work in Word 2007
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