Powerpoint conversion to PDF problem

[protobopper]

I have created a calendar in Powerpoint 2000 whereby I have 12 individual files each of which constitutes a different month. The page set up for each file/page is 12'X18'. The calendar is located on the bottom half of the page and I dropped a jpeg photograph (enhanced in photoshop) on the top half of the page. Each jpeg is approximately 7 to 12 MB in size.

When I try to convert each file to a pdf using Acrobat Distiller I am only partially successful. The calendar is reproduced however the photograph is not (i.e. top half of the page is blank).

Can anyone offer me any advise? I am using Adobe Acrobat 5.05 and Powerpoint 2000.

Sincerely

Protobopper

 

[Eggles]

Try changing the format of the photos to TIFs.

JPGs are already a compressed file format, and the further compression that Distiller applies is probably the cause of the problem.

 

[protobopper]

Thanks but when I convert the JPEGS to TIFF (in photoshop), Powerpoint does not recognize the file type and therefore I can't paste (in powerpoint).

Could it be the size of the file? Smaller jpegs (2mbs or smaller) seem to work. Why would that be?

Yet when I reduce the size of the jpegs in photoshop and then drop them in powerpoint, I still can't convert the calendar to PDF files.

To add to my dilema, I am able to convert the large jpeg's diretly to a PDF. Strange?

Paul Schiratti

 

[Eggles]

Paul

Don't *paste* or *drop* the images into PPT.

Use Insert>Picture>from File and browse to where you stored the TIF.

You haven't mentioned the resolution or colour mode of the images, nor how you intend getting this calender printed. The latter will determine the ideal resolution.

Assuming you are going to be printing this digitally, either on a desktop printer or at a copy shop, then the resolution of the images doesn't need to be any higher than 100-150 dpi when at 100% of their size. I think if your JPGs are 7-12 MB each in size, their rez is much higher than this. Also if the images are in CMYK mode, this may also be a problem for PPT, which is based on RGB.

If the calender is to be commercially printed offset, then you are using the wrong program to make it. PPT is NOT a layout program and even if converted to PDF for printing, all images will be RGB which will not work for process printing.

I suspect that it is either the way you are getting the images ito PPT, or their format (RGB/CMYK), and/or their size (determined by resolution) that is causing the problems.

PPT has its limitations, and although it is great for onscreen presentations, which is what it was designed for, it is not a layout program, which is how you are trying to use it.