CGM problems in Powerpoint 2003

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Help.... after upgrading to Office 2003 I am on longer able to open SOME of
the .ppt files which contain inserted CGM's. When selected to open the
previewer shows the image in the slide show... but the file will not open and
the cpu goes to 100% (brand new IMB T41... its not the Pc). The files are
not corrupted and will open with powerpoint 2002 on another Pc.

Previously inserting CGM's was not a major problem... there is a converter
installed with Powerpoint. Now however only some CGM's will insert. The only
difference I easy see is that files with 600 X 600 pixels insert fine (the
converter works)... but if the file is 600 X 100 the file will not insert.
Its the .ppt files which contain the irregular size CGMs that will not open.

Other than re-installing PP 2002 which worked fine..... does anyone have a
suggestion on how to solve this problem??

Thanks
G
 
CGM refers to a Computer Graphics Metafile ...which is a grafics filetype.

Echo S said:
Sorry, I have to ask -- what is a CGM?

--
Echo [MS PPT MVP]
http://www.echosvoice.com

ClemGR said:
Help.... after upgrading to Office 2003 I am on longer able to open SOME of
the .ppt files which contain inserted CGM's. When selected to open the
previewer shows the image in the slide show... but the file will not open and
the cpu goes to 100% (brand new IMB T41... its not the Pc). The files are
not corrupted and will open with powerpoint 2002 on another Pc.

Previously inserting CGM's was not a major problem... there is a converter
installed with Powerpoint. Now however only some CGM's will insert. The only
difference I easy see is that files with 600 X 600 pixels insert fine (the
converter works)... but if the file is 600 X 100 the file will not insert.
Its the .ppt files which contain the irregular size CGMs that will not open.

Other than re-installing PP 2002 which worked fine..... does anyone have a
suggestion on how to solve this problem??

Thanks
G
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CGM is not really a popular filetype these days. Perhaps PowerPoint doesn't
install the filter by default - you could try installing the import filter
from the install CD.
In future I'd recommend using WMF or EMF as preferred vector filetype for
widest compatibility.

ClemGR said:
CGM refers to a Computer Graphics Metafile ...which is a grafics filetype.

Echo S said:
Sorry, I have to ask -- what is a CGM?

--
Echo [MS PPT MVP]
http://www.echosvoice.com

ClemGR said:
Help.... after upgrading to Office 2003 I am on longer able to open
Click to expand...
SOME
of
the .ppt files which contain inserted CGM's. When selected to open the
previewer shows the image in the slide show... but the file will not
Click to expand...
open
and
the cpu goes to 100% (brand new IMB T41... its not the Pc). The
Click to expand...
files
are
not corrupted and will open with powerpoint 2002 on another Pc.

Previously inserting CGM's was not a major problem... there is a converter
installed with Powerpoint. Now however only some CGM's will insert.
Click to expand...
The
only
difference I easy see is that files with 600 X 600 pixels insert fine (the
converter works)... but if the file is 600 X 100 the file will not insert.
Its the .ppt files which contain the irregular size CGMs that will not open.

Other than re-installing PP 2002 which worked fine..... does anyone have a
suggestion on how to solve this problem??

Thanks
G
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Ah. I wasn't aware of that graphics file type.

Can you convert the CGMs to WMF or EMF? They might be more reliable.

It sounds as if the filter that shipped with Office 2003 is either buggy or
modified (probably because of security issues, I'd guess) from the previous
version.

Hopefully someone else will have better ideas for you.

--
Echo [MS PPT MVP]
http://www.echosvoice.com

ClemGR said:
CGM refers to a Computer Graphics Metafile ...which is a grafics filetype.

Echo S said:
Sorry, I have to ask -- what is a CGM?

--
Echo [MS PPT MVP]
http://www.echosvoice.com

ClemGR said:
Help.... after upgrading to Office 2003 I am on longer able to open
Click to expand...
SOME
of
the .ppt files which contain inserted CGM's. When selected to open the
previewer shows the image in the slide show... but the file will not
Click to expand...
open
and
the cpu goes to 100% (brand new IMB T41... its not the Pc). The
Click to expand...
files
are
not corrupted and will open with powerpoint 2002 on another Pc.

Previously inserting CGM's was not a major problem... there is a converter
installed with Powerpoint. Now however only some CGM's will insert.
Click to expand...
The
only
difference I easy see is that files with 600 X 600 pixels insert fine (the
converter works)... but if the file is 600 X 100 the file will not insert.
Its the .ppt files which contain the irregular size CGMs that will not open.

Other than re-installing PP 2002 which worked fine..... does anyone have a
suggestion on how to solve this problem??

Thanks
G
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Help.... after upgrading to Office 2003 I am on longer able to open SOME of
the .ppt files which contain inserted CGM's. When selected to open the
previewer shows the image in the slide show... but the file will not open and
the cpu goes to 100% (brand new IMB T41... its not the Pc). The files are
not corrupted and will open with powerpoint 2002 on another Pc.
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If you haven't already done so, choose Help, Check for Updates and apply the SP1
update to Office 2003. The original released version has a habit of refusing to
open files that other versions open w/o complaint. I've a hunch that this is
what you're seeing, so the SP should fix you up.

Whether it'll help inserting CGMs afterward, I can't say. Moving forward, I'd
suggest standardizing on a different format if possible. CGM has pretty much
fallen out of favor; I'd expect to see support for it disappear over time.

There are probably utilities that'll batch convert CGM to something more
Office-friendly (or that Office is a little more friendly TO). WMF/EMF is
probably your best bet.
 
Hi,

Well, I haven't seen a cgm file for years, fortunately <g>. Use to see them
in the dos version of Coplot and Codraw.
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CGM is a pretty cool idea; it's a pity that everybody had their own idea of
what the idea meant in practice. Kind of like "Standards are great! But
mine's better than yours so I'll do it MY standard way."
 
Back in the darks ages (CGA/EGA) cgm was THE only way of importing/exporting vector graphics.

Apart from dodgy HP Plotter (HPGL?) captures.

TAJ
 
Back in the darks ages (CGA/EGA) cgm was THE only way of importing/exporting vector graphics.
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Yup.

And it didn't work very well then either.

But back in the dark ages, nothing else worked all that well so maybe we never noticed.
 
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