Increasing the loadup speed

[Guest]

Hi guys,

I have a presentation which is currently 7mb (i estimate will end up 50mb)
and i have burned it onto a cd with powerpoint viewer and an autoload. The
program currently takes 30 seconds to load up, at 50mb it might take
forever! Anybody got any clever suggestions on ways to get round this
problem and increase the speed?! Kind Regards,

 

[Bill Foley]

First question is "why is your file so big"? How many slides? How are you
inserting graphics? What is the resolution of these graphics?

Check out the following for ways to minimize file sizes:

http://www.rdpslides.com/pptfaq/FAQ00062.htm

 

[Guest]

Cheers, that page helps - The presentation currently has 100 slides but this
will grow to 200 + with many different Jpgs, the slide master also has a jpg
background. I have copied and pasted graphics which i now realise may
increase the size, have you used the optimizer? is it any good and will the
resulting presentation still autoload from CD?

 

[Bill Foley]

If you have been copying and pasting, fixing that problem with eliminate
most of your problem (saving as JPGs or PNGs and using the Insert, Picture,
From File method). I have not used the Optimizer. SORRY!

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

Cheers, that page helps - The presentation currently has 100 slides but this
will grow to 200 + with many different Jpgs, the slide master also has a jpg
background. I have copied and pasted graphics which i now realise may
increase the size, have you used the optimizer? is it any good

I've used it quite a bit and think it's pretty neat, but then I wrote it. <g>

If I were you, I'd go with the old "Seeing is believing" rather than trust some
guy (me) you met on the internet. ;-)

Try the free demo; it's fully functional; you can test to see how it works with
your specific presentations and the images/content included in them. It just
"DEMO" stamps any images it optimizes.

and will the
resulting presentation still autoload from CD?

Optimizer won't affect the presentation in any way that'd prevent it from
autoloading.