GIF's won't run in PowerPoint 2007

[Guest]

Gif's that work fine PowerPoint 2003 won't run in 2007. The gif will run
until I save the PowerPoint file, then it won't run. It does not matter what
file format I save the presentation in (ppt, pps, etc). Any ideas?

 

[Guest]

Seems to work here Kim

Maybe its a property in the gif. Send me the pres with a gif if you like .
Please mention your Operating system
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[Guest]

What if you save it as a PPTX file?

 

[Guest]

John, I sent an email with the files attached -if you don't get it, let me
know. The email has been kicked back once.

Thanks!

 

[Guest]

I didn't get it Kim
Did you change the AT to @?
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[Guest]

Glenna,

Thanks for the reply!
Yes, I have tried pptx; ppt - every file type that I can use, I have tried.
The exact same gif's work fine in PP2003 but not when saved in PP2007. Seems
that PP2007 is changing the gif somehow during the save.
Kim

 

[Guest]

I've replied to Kim but for others interested

The gif was huge (1Mb) and very high resolution it worked at first but with
the default settings 2007 was compressing on save which seems to (whats the
tech term?) 'screw it up'. Turning off compress on save works here.
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[Guest]

John,

Thanks for the advice. I have been using PP2007 for only a couple of
weeks. Mine was defaulted to compress on save which seems to be the issue.
I am not even sure if PP2003 could be set to compress on save but if so, it
was not set that way on mine.

I agree with the image size – I did not make the original GIF’s and didn’t
realize how big they were. I am going to resize all of them next week and
then rebuild this presentation.

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

I've replied to Kim but for others interested

The gif was huge (1Mb) and very high resolution it worked at first but with
the default settings 2007 was compressing on save which seems to (whats the
tech term?) 'screw it up'. Turning off compress on save works here.

And to back that up, I've repro'd the problem with a very small animated gif by
setting the compress options to "Email". Once the image is over the needed
number of pixels for the chosen compression setting, compression kicks in and
blows away (oooh, more technospeak) the animations.

[later]

Have sent a report upstream.

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

Thanks for the advice. I have been using PP2007 for only a couple of

weeks. Mine was defaulted to compress on save which seems to be the issue.
I am not even sure if PP2003 could be set to compress on save but if so, it
was not set that way on mine.

Nope, in 2003 the option to compress or not was in your hands.

There's a fix for this "improvement" here:

PowerPoint 2007 makes pictures blurry, loses GIF animation
http://www.pptfaq.com/FAQ00862.htm