the mystery of embedded objects

[John Fryman]

I am working with large PPT files, visual stuff, highly animated. Often...and I cannot always replicate the problem...when I insert an object, say, a piece pf clip art from ART EXPLOSION, it will work fine at one time. Then, randomly, at some other time, I get the message "PPT CAN'T SAVE THE EMBEDDED OBJECT." Then...if I back out of that, delete the problem slide, save it...it will save...but then upon opening again, I get the message that it is a damaged file and cannot be opened. I can't understand this and it's driving me nuts-o! Any ideas about this?

 

[Troy @ TLC Creative]

Art Explosion images are generally CMYK, .eps files. Two things that PPT
does not like... Among the collection of clipart and stock photography, Art
Explosion's collection is one of my favorites. My process is to open the
image in Photoshop, convert it to RGB, size it appropriately and save it as
a .jpg or .png (for transparency use) and then insert the newly saved image
into PPT.

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Best Regards,
Troy Chollar
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"troy at TLCCreative dot com"
TLC Creative Services, inc.
www.tlccreative.com
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I am working with large PPT files, visual stuff, highly animated.

Often...and I cannot always replicate the problem...when I insert an object,
say, a piece pf clip art from ART EXPLOSION, it will work fine at one time.
Then, randomly, at some other time, I get the message "PPT CAN'T SAVE THE
EMBEDDED OBJECT." Then...if I back out of that, delete the problem slide,
save it...it will save...but then upon opening again, I get the message that
it is a damaged file and cannot be opened. I can't understand this and it's
driving me nuts-o! Any ideas about this?

 

[Troy @ TLC Creative]

I would have to check, but they are either .eps or .wmf format (I believe
..eps), so yes they are editable in Illustrator (at least the "clipart"
elements, the larger Art Explosion collections also include a number of .tif
photographs). For simplicity I did not mention opening in a Vector
formatting application, as I commonly do, before 'optimizing' into a PPT
friendly format in PhotoShop.

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Best Regards,
Troy Chollar
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"troy at TLCCreative dot com"
TLC Creative Services, inc.
www.tlccreative.com
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