Copying a PPT more than Quadruples Size

[Guest]

I just opened a 580KB PPT file made with PPT 2000 to update some text, and when I resaved it, the copy is 2837KB. I tried it again making NO changes and it still was 2837KB. So, I brought the file to work and opened it with PPT 2003 and resaved it without changing anything and now its 13087KB. How does an 8 page presentation with lo-res graphics (none larger than 65kb) go from slightly more than half a meg to almost 3 megs using the same program that created it in the first place? And then quadruples again with the newer version? Any ideas? Too many carbs???

 

[Michael Koerner]

Are you by chance saving with backward compatibility to PowerPoint 95. This will
increase your file size.


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I just opened a 580KB PPT file made with PPT 2000 to update some text, and when
I resaved it, the copy is 2837KB. I tried it again making NO changes and it
still was 2837KB. So, I brought the file to work and opened it with PPT 2003 and
resaved it without changing anything and now its 13087KB. How does an 8 page
presentation with lo-res graphics (none larger than 65kb) go from slightly more
than half a meg to almost 3 megs using the same program that created it in the
first place? And then quadruples again with the newer version? Any ideas? Too
many carbs????

 

[Sonia]

Take a look at:

Why are my PowerPoint files so big? What can I do about it?
http://www.rdpslides.com/pptfaq/FAQ00062.htm
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Autorun CD software, templates, and tutorials
http://www.soniacoleman.com/

I just opened a 580KB PPT file made with PPT 2000 to update some text, and

when I resaved it, the copy is 2837KB. I tried it again making NO changes
and it still was 2837KB. So, I brought the file to work and opened it with
PPT 2003 and resaved it without changing anything and now its 13087KB. How
does an 8 page presentation with lo-res graphics (none larger than 65kb) go
from slightly more than half a meg to almost 3 megs using the same program
that created it in the first place? And then quadruples again with the newer
version? Any ideas? Too many carbs????

 

[Guest]

Not much luck with PP2K, but I followed some suggestions on the 13 mg PP2003 file, compressed each graphic, turned off fast save, etc --- not much help, then I turned off embed Truetype fonts and BAM! the file size went from 13 mgs to 398K !!! Guess I need to upgrade.... Thanks, all.

 

[Echo S]

Not much luck with PP2K, but I followed some suggestions on the 13 mg

PP2003 file, compressed each graphic, turned off fast save, etc --- not much
help, then I turned off embed Truetype fonts and BAM! the file size went
from 13 mgs to 398K !!! Guess I need to upgrade.... Thanks, all.

Ahhh. I bet the embedded font was Arial Unicode. That one's a huge monster.

You can unembed that font in PPT 2000 as well. Just do a File/Save As, but
before you hit the Save button, look for the Tools button at the top of the
dialog box. Click it and then deselect Embed True Type Fonts.

 

[Guest]

Ahhhhh....so! Thanks for that tip as well. And yes, it was Arial Unicode!

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

Ahhhhh....so! Thanks for that tip as well. And yes, it was Arial Unicode!

And I just stumbled across an interesting bit in a rather old page on
www.microsoft.com/typography ... where it said that if you embed a TT font,
Word will embed all four variants if available (ie, regular, bold, italic,
bold-italic). If that's true of PPT as well, it sure makes for a lot of meat
on that file. <g>