Images don't appear on PC version

[Jerad Hoff]

I created a presentation in 10.3.1 and the latest version of Office for
Mac OS X.

The windows users indicate about 30% of the JPG images won't appear.
They are given the error:

"Quicktime and a TIFF (Uncompressed) decompressor are needed to see this
picture."

I did locate this Knowledge Base article:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;278556

The article addresses movies not appearing but the error is similar.

I'm not sure why quicktime and TIFF are referenced for JPG images, but
if anyone has any ideas, I'd appreciate hearing them.

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

The error message is probably ... um ... in error.
It may date back to before JPGs were a common format, back when men were
men, women were women and only TIFFs were QT-compressed. And there was
something about sheep, but I don't remember exactly what ...

Or something like that.

The root of the problem is the same ... Some Mac apps use Quicktime
compression to shrink image files. QT isn't commonly installed on PCs and
even if it is, it doesn't include the still-image compression/decompression
components, to my knowledge. You'll need to figure out how to resave the
JPGs w/o QT compression in whatever app originally created them and then
re-insert them into PPT.

I don't have a lot of s'ware on the Mac here so probably can't help much,
but if you want to post the specifics of how the JPGs were created, somebody
else will probably be able to tell you how to re-do them w/o QT compression.

 

[Jerad Hoff]

Thank you for your help! Some of the images came from iPhoto, I would
not be surpsied to hear Apple uses QuickTime with iPhoto.

I wonder if there is some sort of GraphicConverter script that could be
made that would re-compress the images without QuickTime or something
like that.

Thanks again!

 

[Kayser Wong]

I'm struggling the same issue here.

But the image we use were all created in Photoshop. The JPG file just having
the QuickTime tiff error on a PC.

One question, do you use QuickTime transitions or PowerPoint's default
transitions? Are the transition use QuickTime didn't show up?

Please let me know.



On 11/22/03 5:56 PM, in article >> The error message is probably ... um ...
in error.

 

[M. Katz]

Just use Insert > Picture > From File... instead of cut and paste and
you shouldn't have this problem. Stop worrying about where/how the
JPEG was created and such. Now if you rotate the image or apply
transparency, then heaven help you, you're on your own.

Mac <-> PC PPT incompatability has been an ongoing discussion here
with new posts appearing almost daily saying the same thing, I'm sorry
to say. It's just another example of lame, sloppy, unfortunate
programming by Microsoft and it shows that they don't love us.

M. Katz

 

[World C]

I am not familiar with this issue in PPT files, but have seen it in Word
docs. The cause, as best can determine is that when you cut and paste an
image into a Word doc, the Mac OS can encode the image in such a way that
requires Mac QT to view. A work around for Word is to use the
"Insert->Picture" commands.

Now if I can olny figure out why my Chart images dow't show up in PPT files
on PC's.

C