Power point + size of imported/pasted images restrictions

[Guest]

Dear all



Few of the pople i know are using too big images inside power point. they
just do screen captures and dump the full image instead of scaling it down
with a image editing software to a particular useful size.



Is there a posibility to write a some kind of hook or macro or anything that
might help me do the restriction in power point or word for that matter that
will prevent an image that is bigger then 1 MB to be imported or copping and
pasted from the clipboard.



I am totaly new to development in Office environment and was wondering if
some one can point me in the right direction.



I apreciate your time and help.



Cheers

Dan

 

[Guest]

I apologise for not mentioning the version for power point and word this is
targeted to: Its office 2003

Cheers

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

I don't think you can respond to a user pasting something into PPT other than
perhaps by trapping the selection change event, and from there it'd get very
complicated.

There are third-party add-ins that can take an existing PPT file and optimize
the images in it, though. It might be simpler to use one of those on the
user's files.

 

[Guest]

Ok i see

Well that might work too. Would you be able to point me to any of the tools
you mentioned?

Are they open source tools? Any pointes if i were to develop something like
that myself if they tools are not free?

Cheers
Dan

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

Ok i see

Well that might work too. Would you be able to point me to any of the tools
you mentioned?

Are they open source tools? Any pointes if i were to develop something like
that myself if they tools are not free?

None I know of are free, but you can open a presentation in PPT 2003 (2002 too?) or
higher and use the built-in Compress Images tool.

Our PPTools Optimizer is one such add-in (http://www.pptools.com/optimizer/)

A google will get you several others. The one from Neuxpower is one of the other
well-known ones.