Filesize...

[Jure Sah]

Hello,

I am a webmaster and I have just recieved multiple presentations that
require to be put online. However I have a problem...

Some of the presentations I was supposed to publish contain a few (12 I
think) pictures and they are over 150 MB big!! I can't upload a set of
150 MB files to the server, the ISP will kill me.

How do I make PowerPoint presentations smaller?

I have been suggested to change them into PDFs, which uses compression,
however that destroys the slide magic of PowerPoint... is there no other
way?

Looking forward to your response.

 

[Sonia]

The people who created the presentations have many "opportunities" to reduce the
size of the presentations. Refer them to the information in:

Why are my PowerPoint files so big? What can I do about it?
http://www.rdpslides.com/pptfaq/FAQ00062.htm

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

How do I make PowerPoint presentations smaller?

I have been suggested to change them into PDFs, which uses compression,
however that destroys the slide magic of PowerPoint... is there no other
way?

Depending on what sort of slide magic the PPT presentations use, you may not
need to lose as much as you think in converting to PDF. One way or another
hyperlinks, many action settings and some transitions can be preserved, as well
as the ability to force the presentation to run full screen w/o the user having
to do anything. Either Adobe's PDFMaker add-in or our Prep4PDF
(http://prep4pdf.pptools.com) will help with this.

Converting the presentation to HTML may help as well. Again, depending on what
specific bits of magic are required in the final presentation, you may have
luck with PPT's own Publish to Web feature. If control and small size are more
important than preserving animation effects, try http://ppt2html.pptools.com
(another commercial addin).

There are also ways of converting PPT to Flash (using Articulate, for example).


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Steve Rindsberg, PPT MVP
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[Jure Sah]

Depending on what sort of slide magic the PPT presentations use, you may not
need to lose as much as you think in converting to PDF. One way or another
hyperlinks, many action settings and some transitions can be preserved, as well
as the ability to force the presentation to run full screen w/o the user having
to do anything. Either Adobe's PDFMaker add-in or our Prep4PDF
(http://prep4pdf.pptools.com) will help with this.

The idea of course is that I don't have to manualy
export/recompress/reinsert each of the 12 pictures in each of the 35
presentations.

The problem I have with PDF is that, on the internet, click-click
viewing and scrolling down a page that redraws as slowly as PDFs usually
do, makes a really BIG diffirence. I don't care about the effects, the
point is to let the end user enjoy the viewing experience as (s)he would
a PPT, while maintaining a quick download speed even for the dail-up
users and professional image quality (they are photos of microbiological
culture grownth, with bad quality, the message the picture is taking
accross, becomes unrecogtnizable).

Thanks.

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

The idea of course is that I don't have to manualy

export/recompress/reinsert each of the 12 pictures in each of the 35
presentations.

The problem I have with PDF is that, on the internet, click-click
viewing and scrolling down a page that redraws as slowly as PDFs usually
do, makes a really BIG diffirence.

You're probably seeing the result of very badly made PDFs. A lot of people take
manuals and other print material and convert them to PDF w/o a thought for reducing
the file size to something reasonable. Acrobat will do a pretty good job of
compressing images for you w/o your having to do anything other than set a few
options once.

I don't care about the effects, the
point is to let the end user enjoy the viewing experience as (s)he would
a PPT, while maintaining a quick download speed even for the dail-up
users and professional image quality (they are photos of microbiological
culture grownth, with bad quality, the message the picture is taking
accross, becomes unrecogtnizable).

You'll have to accept that there's an inherent compromise here: the higher the
quality of the images, the larger the file size. Still, if they're photo-type
images, JPG compression in PDFs might be able to get them down to a reasonable size
w/o making them unusable.



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Steve Rindsberg, PPT MVP
PPT FAQ: www.pptfaq.com
PPTools: www.pptools.com
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Featured Presenter, PowerPoint Live 2004
October 10-13, San Diego, CA www.PowerPointLive.com
================================================

 

[Guest]

Hi Jure

Did you ever solve this problem... as I need to do the same.. surely there
must be a programme that goes through a ppt file and reduces all the images
to a screen viewable size ?

Tim

 

[brian]

There is a programme that does this. Download a free demo at
pptools.com. You would want the Optimizer programme.

Brian Reilly, PowerPoint MVP