Reasonable Powerpoint Size?

[cooterbrown]

Version: 2008
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
Processor: Intel

Hi,

I am developing powerpoint graphics for a client on my Mac (though I think they will author the PPT on a PC).

I will create the graphics and send to them in a powerpoint. Think of it as an element library.

They will then reaarange the graphics and create their presentation.

The format size of the presentation is 1120x768.

My images are tif format.

However - after just putting in 6 full size images (built at 1120x768) - the PPT file I need to send them is already 60MB.

Should I resave the images as JPG's? Or pngs perhaps if they require transparency?
Would appreciate all opinions on this.

Many thanks! cb

 

[David Morrison]

Version: 2008
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
Processor: Intel

Hi,

I am developing powerpoint graphics for a client on my Mac (though I think
they will author the PPT on a PC).

I will create the graphics and send to them in a powerpoint. Think of it as
an element library.

They will then reaarange the graphics and create their presentation.

The format size of the presentation is 1120x768.

My images are tif format.

However - after just putting in 6 full size images (built at 1120x768) - the
PPT file I need to send them is already 60MB.

Should I resave the images as JPG's? Or pngs perhaps if they require
transparency?
Would appreciate all opinions on this.

Many thanks! cb

I have a client that makes presentations using lots of photos. These are
almost always JPEGs from a camera and there can be 50-100 of them. The
file size is typically around 250MB.

Doing anything to these presentations is sssslllloooowwww!!!!

Takes a couple of minutes just to open them in PowerPoint. Uses heaps of
RAM in your computer. A Mac Mini with only 512MB RAM sometimes never
gets it fully open and PowerPoint crashes or freezes. :-(

It seems to want over 300MB of RAM, and when it does run, lots of the
transitions and animations get truncated.

I discovered that PowerPoint for Windows actually has a command to
compress pictures. I did that, and the file size came down to 29MB. It
also runs relatively smoothly and reliably now.

However, I think the compress command does not work on TIFFs, so JPEGs
or GIFs are probably a better bet.

I saw a comment somewhere too that the best way to get pics into
PowerPoint was to Insert a File. Copy/paste or dragging makes a lot of
baggage to go with the picture apparently.

Think also of what the eventual use of the graphics is going to be. If
it is only on a screen, don't make the resolution any higher than is
needed for that.

Cheers

David

 

[cooterbrown]

Thanks - I appreciate the response...

I can divide them up between jpgs, and also pngs or tiffs (when transparency is needed) - and should save alot of that overhead.

Question - right now my resolution is 1120x768 @150ppi

Should I make that 100ppi of even 72ppi?

Thanks!

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

Question - right now my resolution is 1120x768 @150ppi

Should I make that 100ppi of even 72ppi?

As long as the 1120x768 stays constant, dpi doesn't matter. Same
image data either way.

 

[JimG]

Version: 2008
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
Processor: Intel

Hi,

I am developing powerpoint graphics for a client on my Mac (though I think they will author the PPT on a PC).

I will create the graphics and send to them in a powerpoint. Think of it as an element library.

They will then reaarange the graphics and create their presentation.

The format size of the presentation is 1120x768.

My images are tif format.

However - after just putting in 6 full size images (built at 1120x768) - the PPT file I need to send them is already 60MB.

Should I resave the images as JPG's? Or pngs perhaps if they require transparency?
Would appreciate all opinions on this.

Many thanks! cb

Hi,

I'd not worry too much about the size of all the pictures. These days 60
meg is not that big. Use SkyDrive or some other internet based file
sharing service to distribute the file. SkDrives lets you have 25 gig of
space, so you don't have to worry about file size so much.

Right-click or control click on the file name of the the file and choose
to compress the file before uploading, and that should be enough to keep
things under control.

-Jim Gordon
Mac MVP