compressing image files

[Guest]

I have Office 2000 pro at work and at home but my home version does not have
the microsoft office tool called Picture manager to compress pictures...?

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

I have Office 2000 pro at work and at home but my home version does not have
the microsoft office tool called Picture manager to compress pictures...?

Picture Manager comes with Office 2003 but not earlier versions.
There's an option to compress pictures in PowerPoint 2002 (XP) and up.

Neither feature is part of Office 2000, so I'm guessing you have a different
version at work. Or if not, that you're using some other feature at work.

Anyhow, let us know exactly what you're doing at work (ie, what steps you
follow) and what you need to accomplish. We'll see if there isn't some way to
make the same magic in the version you have at home. Ah. We'll need to know
what version that is too.

 

[Guest]

Picture Manager comes with Office 2003 but not earlier versions.
There's an option to compress pictures in PowerPoint 2002 (XP) and up.

I have never worked with PowerPoint

Neither feature is part of Office 2000, so I'm guessing you have a different
version at work. Or if not, that you're using some other feature at work.

Anyhow, let us know exactly what you're doing at work (ie, what steps you
follow) and what you need to accomplish.

At work...Start menu>Programs>MS office tools.MS Picture Manager.. Edit
Picture>compress
At home Start>Programs>MSoffice tools and there is not picture Manager but
there is Photo Editor
We'll see if there isn't some way to

make the same magic in the version you have at home.

I thought for sure they were the same versions. I forget where to check what
version of Office I have...?
Ah. We'll need to know

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

I have never worked with PowerPoint

Ah. Well this is the PowerPoint newsgroup, so naturally I figured ...
Well, never mind. ;-)

At work...Start menu>Programs>MS office tools.MS Picture Manager.. Edit
Picture>compress
At home Start>Programs>MSoffice tools and there is not picture Manager but
there is Photo Editor

Depending on what you're after, this'd probably do it:

Start PhotoEditor.
Open the photo you want to compress.
Choose Image, Resize
Make sure there's no check next to Allow Distortion but put a check next to Smooth.
Set a resize percentage (try 50% if in doubt) and click OK.
Save to a new filename as JPG.

We'll see if there isn't some way to
I thought for sure they were the same versions. I forget where to check what
version of Office I have...?

To learn the version, start PowerPoint, Word or Excel and choose Help, About
[whichever program you started]. The resulting dialog box will mention the version
number.

 

[Guest]

Steve...

Is there a way to compress multiple pictures (Images). I returned from a t
rip with over 100 pics and want to compress them but I can only seem to do
this one at a time. UGH!

Bob Trocchi

 

[Echo S]

Which version of PPT are you using?

 

[Terry Irwin]

I think in principle that a photo manipulation program such as PaintShop Pro
or Photoshop Elements is better at this. You can download a trial version of
Photoshop Elements that works for 30 days here
http://www.adobe.com/products/tryadobe/main.jsp#product=40. Put all your
images in one folder, select all the images in PE and use the comand:
File>Export, then choose your compression settings.

You can do this in PowerPoint, but you have less control over the final
output.

Only my personal view for what it is worth!

Terry

 

[Guest]

Terry...

Thanks very much. I will try that.

To: echo...

I have ppt 2003

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

Steve...

Is there a way to compress multiple pictures (Images). I returned from a t
rip with over 100 pics and want to compress them but I can only seem to do
this one at a time. UGH!

Hi Bob,

Well. I could sell you a PowerPoint add-in that'll do the job but let's see if we
can save you a few bucks.<g>

Have you already added the images to your PPT file? If not, good! There are
several programs that will downsample images in batches. IrfanView
(www.irfanview.com) is flexible, fast and (my mostest favoritest F), free.

Use it to resample your images to, say, 1024x768 assuming full screen usage and
then pop the resampled images into PPT.

If you've already added the images, PowerPoint 2002 and up let you compress
pictures. Right click one, choose Format Picture from the popup menu, click the
Picture tab and click Compress. You'll see lots of handy options, including one to
compress all the pics in the PPT file.

If you have PPT2000 or earlier and a lotta lotta time invested in the presentation,
THEN you might want to have a look at our Optimizer. See http://www.pptools.com

Or if time's long and money's short, delete the images from the file and reinsert
them after downsampling.

 

[Echo S]

Trocchi, I do agree with Terry that there are a number of options that give
you more control over compression. (If you want a list of 'em, just holler!)

That said, in PPT 2003 (and 2002, also), there's a "compress" option on the
Picture toolbar (View/Toolbars/Picture). Just click it, and you should have
an option to compress all or compress just the selected image.

Does that get you going?

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

I think in principle that a photo manipulation program such as PaintShop Pro
or Photoshop Elements is better at this. You can download a trial version of
Photoshop Elements that works for 30 days here
http://www.adobe.com/products/tryadobe/main.jsp#product=40. Put all your
images in one folder, select all the images in PE and use the comand:
File>Export, then choose your compression settings.

You can do this in PowerPoint, but you have less control over the final
output.

Only my personal view for what it is worth!

Assuming that the original image files are available outside of PPT, I couldn't
agree more, Terry.