Exporting Slides as JPG images

[Geoff Bennett]

I need to export a large number of Powerpoint slides as JPG images. I know
the "Save As", "JPG" feature, but this seems to be somewhat lacking for the
following reasons:

1. The actual quality of the output is terrible. The image doesn't seem to
be anti-aliased, for example.

2. How do I control the size of the output image?

3. I would like to control the resulting filenames of the slides.
Specifically "1.JPG", "2.JPG"...etc. Powerpoint seems to use a different
convention, and I end up having to rename all the files.

I also tried a screen capture utility. But the problem is I need to control
the size of the images, and the only way I seem to be able to do that is
changing the screen resolution.

This seems like an obvious feature...what am I doing wrong?

Cheers,
Geoff

 

[Michael Koerner]

If you publish your presentation as html, all the images will be extracted and
named slide001_image001.jpg, slide002_image002.jpg and so on. Or visit here and
check out Shyam's Batch Exporter http://www.mvps.org/skp/products/xport/

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I need to export a large number of Powerpoint slides as JPG images. I know
the "Save As", "JPG" feature, but this seems to be somewhat lacking for the
following reasons:

1. The actual quality of the output is terrible. The image doesn't seem to
be anti-aliased, for example.

2. How do I control the size of the output image?

3. I would like to control the resulting filenames of the slides.
Specifically "1.JPG", "2.JPG"...etc. Powerpoint seems to use a different
convention, and I end up having to rename all the files.

I also tried a screen capture utility. But the problem is I need to control
the size of the images, and the only way I seem to be able to do that is
changing the screen resolution.

This seems like an obvious feature...what am I doing wrong?

Cheers,
Geoff

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

I need to export a large number of Powerpoint slides as JPG images. I know
the "Save As", "JPG" feature, but this seems to be somewhat lacking for the
following reasons:

1. The actual quality of the output is terrible. The image doesn't seem to
be anti-aliased, for example.

2. How do I control the size of the output image?

3. I would like to control the resulting filenames of the slides.
Specifically "1.JPG", "2.JPG"...etc. Powerpoint seems to use a different
convention, and I end up having to rename all the files.

I also tried a screen capture utility. But the problem is I need to control
the size of the images, and the only way I seem to be able to do that is
changing the screen resolution.

This seems like an obvious feature...what am I doing wrong?

Nothing, really. PowerPoint doesn't offer much flexibility in this regard.

There are a few things you can do to improve the resolution:

Improve PowerPoint's GIF, BMP, PNG, JPG export resolution
http://www.rdpslides.com/pptfaq/FAQ00052.htm

There's also our inexpensive Image Export addin - free demo at
http://www.pptools.com

This does a few tricks to improve image quality beyond what PPT itself will do,
but some versions of PPT overcome all attempts to make it behave and give you
images that aren't antialiased no matter what. The demo will at least let you
test for that at no charge.

 

[Geoff Bennett]

Thanks Michael and Steve, I'll try those out.

Nothing, really. PowerPoint doesn't offer much flexibility in this regard.

There are a few things you can do to improve the resolution:

Improve PowerPoint's GIF, BMP, PNG, JPG export resolution
http://www.rdpslides.com/pptfaq/FAQ00052.htm

There's also our inexpensive Image Export addin - free demo at
http://www.pptools.com

This does a few tricks to improve image quality beyond what PPT itself will do,
but some versions of PPT overcome all attempts to make it behave and give you
images that aren't antialiased no matter what. The demo will at least let you
test for that at no charge.