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Bob
I hope someone can answer this. I have created several
large (100 MB+) Presentation files in PowerPoint 2000.
These presentations contain many slides that
are "Inserted from file" JPEG and/or BMP images. I have
spent many hours developing these presentations. I
lecture professionally using these presentations so this
is very important to me. When I recently tried to
upgrade to MS Office XP Standard, something is wrong with
how these Presentation files are opened/read. The text
slides look fine. Even some of the lower KB graphics
look normal. However, many of the slides that have
larger JPEG or BMP images appear grainy or have a low
resolution-like appearance. These images were originally
scanned into my computer at 600 - 1800 dpi. The image
files themselves are 500kb+ in size. Again, they look
great when viewed in PowerPoint 2000 on the same
computer. I am running all of this on fairly new 2.0 Ghz
computer with 512 MB of RAM. My graphics card is 64 MB.
This is not a hardware problem since the same thing
happens at work to these same files. At work we recently
upgraded from MS Office to MS Office 2002. Operating
system at home is XP Pro. Operating system at work is
Windows 2000. Same problem at both locations.
In addition, when I open these large PowerPoint files in
either MS Office XP or MS Office 2002 they take a long
time to load and are very slow (10 seconds+) in
converting back and forth from Slide Sorter View to Slide
View. The resolution problem is bad regardless of the
view including "Slide Show". At home one file just hangs
up entirely. Fortunately, I used system restore and am
now back on MS Office 2000. Everything is fine again
with rapid responsiveness between Slide Sorter View,
Slide View, and Slide Show modes.
One last point. I thought maybe I could go back and re-
create each slide (a long tedious process I want to
avoid) in MS Office XP. However, when I tried to "Insert
from File" these same scanned images into the MS Office
XP version of PowerPoint, the images were slightly
blurry. I tried to clear them using PowerPoint's
contrast enhancing tool but the images dropped off in
resolution as the image cleared. If I go and view these
same scanned images directly in Explore or Photo editing
software, they look fine. The XP and 2002 versions of
PowerPoint do not seem to be reading these images. Any
ideas? I will owe you big time if you can fix this. I
don't want to be stuck in PowerPoint 2000 forever.
Thanks for any help you can give.
Bob
large (100 MB+) Presentation files in PowerPoint 2000.
These presentations contain many slides that
are "Inserted from file" JPEG and/or BMP images. I have
spent many hours developing these presentations. I
lecture professionally using these presentations so this
is very important to me. When I recently tried to
upgrade to MS Office XP Standard, something is wrong with
how these Presentation files are opened/read. The text
slides look fine. Even some of the lower KB graphics
look normal. However, many of the slides that have
larger JPEG or BMP images appear grainy or have a low
resolution-like appearance. These images were originally
scanned into my computer at 600 - 1800 dpi. The image
files themselves are 500kb+ in size. Again, they look
great when viewed in PowerPoint 2000 on the same
computer. I am running all of this on fairly new 2.0 Ghz
computer with 512 MB of RAM. My graphics card is 64 MB.
This is not a hardware problem since the same thing
happens at work to these same files. At work we recently
upgraded from MS Office to MS Office 2002. Operating
system at home is XP Pro. Operating system at work is
Windows 2000. Same problem at both locations.
In addition, when I open these large PowerPoint files in
either MS Office XP or MS Office 2002 they take a long
time to load and are very slow (10 seconds+) in
converting back and forth from Slide Sorter View to Slide
View. The resolution problem is bad regardless of the
view including "Slide Show". At home one file just hangs
up entirely. Fortunately, I used system restore and am
now back on MS Office 2000. Everything is fine again
with rapid responsiveness between Slide Sorter View,
Slide View, and Slide Show modes.
One last point. I thought maybe I could go back and re-
create each slide (a long tedious process I want to
avoid) in MS Office XP. However, when I tried to "Insert
from File" these same scanned images into the MS Office
XP version of PowerPoint, the images were slightly
blurry. I tried to clear them using PowerPoint's
contrast enhancing tool but the images dropped off in
resolution as the image cleared. If I go and view these
same scanned images directly in Explore or Photo editing
software, they look fine. The XP and 2002 versions of
PowerPoint do not seem to be reading these images. Any
ideas? I will owe you big time if you can fix this. I
don't want to be stuck in PowerPoint 2000 forever.
Thanks for any help you can give.
Bob