save slides as individual grayscale tifs?

[Guest]

Using PPT 2003, I want to do a SAVE AS TIFF to get each individual slide of a
presentation as a separate TIFF file. However, I want a grayscale version of
the slide, not the full color version. If I do the SAVE AS while in the
grayscale view it still saves the slide in full color. Any way to convert to
grayscale first and then do the SAVE AS. or any other suggestions? I have
several hundred slides so I don't want to have to bring them individually
into Photoshop to make the conversion from color to grayscale.
Thanks

 

[Guest]

As you say greyscale view only effects the screen view.

One work around which can work depending on the content is to set up a
colour scheme (format design > color scheme>edit color scheme) with all greys
and apply it
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[TAJ Simmons]

Ken W

In older versions of powerpoint you could save as (bitmap) while in a black
and white view and get tifs as grayscale(BW)

Unfortunately MS fixed the problem... read more here
http://www.echosvoice.com/gotchas.htm#SaveasImageBW

In the meantime see
http://skp.mvps.org/how/index.html

Which (I believe) can do B&W

Cheers
TAJ Simmons
microsoft powerpoint mvp

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[Steve Rindsberg]

Using PPT 2003, I want to do a SAVE AS TIFF to get each individual slide of a
presentation as a separate TIFF file. However, I want a grayscale version of
the slide, not the full color version. If I do the SAVE AS while in the
grayscale view it still saves the slide in full color. Any way to convert to
grayscale first and then do the SAVE AS. or any other suggestions? I have
several hundred slides so I don't want to have to bring them individually
into Photoshop to make the conversion from color to grayscale.

First off, I'd avoid saving TIFFs from PPT. Depending on version, it can be
unreliable. Instead save as PNG.

Then use any image editing program capable of batch processing to make the
conversion en masse. IrfanView does this quite nicely. And for free.
www.irfanview.com ... a lovely swiss army knife of a graphics program.

 

[Guest]

I later discovered that both Photoshop and Illustrator have a batch process
mode to handle large numbers of files. In Photoshop I recorded the action to
change the mode to grayscale and then under Automate/Batch pointed it to a
folder full of my tifs saved from PowerPoint (in color), told it which action
to perform, and pointed it to a destination folder to save my grayscale tifs
to. Ta da, one command and hundreds of tifs were converted to grayscale.

Using PPT 2003, I want to do a SAVE AS TIFF to get each individual slide of a
presentation as a separate TIFF file. However, I want a grayscale version of
the slide, not the full color version. If I do the SAVE AS while in the
grayscale view it still saves the slide in full color. Any way to convert to
grayscale first and then do the SAVE AS. or any other suggestions? I have
several hundred slides so I don't want to have to bring them individually
into Photoshop to make the conversion from color to grayscale.
Thanks

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