exporting to images - best quality?

[Steve M]

I would like to export all the frames of a ppt file to images, to bring them
all back into a new file as a "read only" version. I find that every image
format I export to using the "save as" menu in powerpoint results in an
image size of 960x720, and the anti-aliasing of text seems to be lost. I
believe that for best results I need to generate 1024x768 images, with the
anti-aliasing intact. Any ideas on how to accomplish this in an automated
fashion, rather than having to do a "print screen" on each frame, then
pasting each frame into photoshop, saving, etc?

Thanks,
Steve

 

[Michael Koerner]

Depending on your version of PowerPoint the exported resolution is from 80
to 90 dpi. You can however change this value by editing the registry. How to
do this and other options check this out.

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

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|I would like to export all the frames of a ppt file to images, to bring
them
| all back into a new file as a "read only" version. I find that every
image
| format I export to using the "save as" menu in powerpoint results in an
| image size of 960x720, and the anti-aliasing of text seems to be lost. I
| believe that for best results I need to generate 1024x768 images, with the
| anti-aliasing intact. Any ideas on how to accomplish this in an automated
| fashion, rather than having to do a "print screen" on each frame, then
| pasting each frame into photoshop, saving, etc?
|
| Thanks,
| Steve
|
|

 

[Kathy Jacobs]

Steve,
I use TechSmith's SnagIt to do my screen grabs. One of its features is the
ability to do multiple screen grabs in an automatic way. You tell it to take
one shot ever X seconds, minutes, or hours and to discard duplicates. Turn
off preview and set the output to a file with auto-naming. Get the capture
set up and going, then start your presentation. Click through the
presentation as normal. When the presentation is done running, stop the
capture.

(I have more detailed instructions. If you want them, post back and I will
add them.)

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[Steve M]

Since I wrote this someone told me that one clean way to do this is to use
acrobat. "convert to adobe pdf" from ppt, then save the pdf as images, then
import the images into powerpoint. This is fine if you have the full
version of acrobat...

 

[Steve M]

I am using ppt 2003 on XP home.

To me, it doesn't matter what res you save to if the text isn't anti-aliased
on the image... I just installed and tried the "RnR Image Exporter", which
allowed me to set to the res to 1024 - but the anti-aliasing was still
missing.

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

I am using ppt 2003 on XP home.

To me, it doesn't matter what res you save to if the text isn't anti-aliased
on the image... I just installed and tried the "RnR Image Exporter", which
allowed me to set to the res to 1024 - but the anti-aliasing was still
missing.

Afraid so. It's a bug in PPT2002/2003

Try exporting at higher rez then use the free IrfanView (www.irfanview.com) to
batch downsample the results to the needed resolution