Background Fill

[Guest]

Hello, I work for a printing company and we are having some real issues with
a customer and how they design their powerpoint slide masters. If they place
their image as a background fill it will not turn into a good pdf for
printing. They are placing a cmyk jpeg into the slide master using
background fill instead of just placing an image. Does powerpoint
automatically convert this to a RGB bitmap file. Or is there a conflict with
jpeg's being used in the background fill pictures tab?

Please help me if you can thank you!

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

Hello, I work for a printing company and we are having some real issues with
a customer and how they design their powerpoint slide masters. If they place
their image as a background fill it will not turn into a good pdf for
printing. They are placing a cmyk jpeg into the slide master using
background fill instead of just placing an image. Does powerpoint
automatically convert this to a RGB bitmap file. Or is there a conflict with
jpeg's being used in the background fill pictures tab?

PowerPoint doesn't do CMYK at all, with one rare exception.

Everything ... EVERYTHING ... becomes RGB except for inserted EPS graphics when
printed to a PS output device.

If you have a color managed CMYK graphic that you need to output exactly as-is,
you'll need to save it as CMYK EPS then use Insert, Picture, From File to bring
it into PPT.

 

[TAJ Simmons]

John,

if you can "select" the image, then it should print
if you cannot select the image, then it's doubtful it will print (even if
you can see it)

I'd go RGB everytime and avoid CMYK

cheers
TAJ Simmons
microsoft powerpoint mvp

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