Power Point compatibility

[bw_cps22]

I created two powerpoint presentations on my PowerBook G4. These are
being donated to a local museum and high school. They look fabulous on
my mac. But, when I made a presentation yesterday to a church group,
some of the photos did not show up - they said that they were TIFF
(although I was careful not to use Tiff's ...or so I thought) and
needed to be compressed. I already burned these discs and labeled them
etc for donation.

Help! How do I fix these? And, I assume, once fixed, they will have
to be re-burned as I did them on non-rewritable discs so that people
couldn't accidentally mess them up.

Thanks.

 

[Kurt]

I created two powerpoint presentations on my PowerBook G4. These are
being donated to a local museum and high school. They look fabulous on
my mac. But, when I made a presentation yesterday to a church group,
some of the photos did not show up - they said that they were TIFF
(although I was careful not to use Tiff's ...or so I thought) and
needed to be compressed. I already burned these discs and labeled them
etc for donation.

Help! How do I fix these? And, I assume, once fixed, they will have
to be re-burned as I did them on non-rewritable discs so that people
couldn't accidentally mess them up.

Thanks.

The two can be horribly incompatible unless you know what kinds of files
PCs will accept- and this info is not in the documentation. There's an
FAQ somewhere that gets posted every once and a while that deals with
this. I'm sure one of the board experts can steer you in the right
direction.
I would use only RGB Jpegs.

 

[John McGhie [MVP - Word and Word Macintosh]]

Kurt is correct. The machine you were using was not fully up-to-date.
There was a bug in the installation disk for Office 2003 on the PC that left
out the TIFF decompression program.

If they updated that PC, it would show your pictures.

If you use 24-bit RGB JPEG or PNG you won't get the problem.

Cheers

I created two powerpoint presentations on my PowerBook G4. These are
being donated to a local museum and high school. They look fabulous on
my mac. But, when I made a presentation yesterday to a church group,
some of the photos did not show up - they said that they were TIFF
(although I was careful not to use Tiff's ...or so I thought) and
needed to be compressed. I already burned these discs and labeled them
etc for donation.

Help! How do I fix these? And, I assume, once fixed, they will have
to be re-burned as I did them on non-rewritable discs so that people
couldn't accidentally mess them up.

Thanks.

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[picardmeister]

It's not likely anything can be done on the PC side or that Office 2003
installation to get the pictures to display.

See
http://groups.google.com/group/micr...?lnk=st&q=chiang+tiff&rnum=3#72782d0e03d19e2a.

For the ones that don't display (assuming they aren't PICT files), it's
best to re-insert them via Insert Picture > From File rather than
whatever method they were added.