Copying a PPT more than Quadruples 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???
 
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????
 
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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DaveH said:
I just opened a 580KB PPT file made with PPT 2000 to update some text, and
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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????
 
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.
 
DaveH said:
Not much luck with PP2K, but I followed some suggestions on the 13 mg
Click to expand...
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.
 
Ahhhhh....so! Thanks for that tip as well. And yes, it was Arial Unicode!
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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>
 
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