Saving individual slides to greyscale, sized Jpegs or wmfs?

[KR]

Prior to my recent upgrade to PP2003, I was able to save all slides (save
as/ wmf) as greyscale, and pull them into my MS Word documents (facilitator
guides). MS seems to have removed the capability to save slides in greyscale
in PP2003.

So, I'm looking for a VBA type solution, if there is one. I don't want color
WMFs because they take too much space/memory/filesize, and because I like
the fact that the greyscale didn't show the slide background, making it
easier to read when printed on a non-color printer.

So, does anyone have any VBA code examples of how to take each slide in a
PP2003 presentation and save it as a greyscale image file? If possible,
including the ability to change the "resolution" or size of that output,
since when I bring it into MS Word it usually ends up being no more than 2
inches wide (still proportional to original size) so pre-shrinking it would
save me even more memory and keep my final MS Word filesizes (facilitator
guides) small.

Thanks for any help or info,
Keith

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

So, does anyone have any VBA code examples of how to take each slide in a
PP2003 presentation and save it as a greyscale image file? If possible,
including the ability to change the "resolution" or size of that output,
since when I bring it into MS Word it usually ends up being no more than 2
inches wide (still proportional to original size) so pre-shrinking it would
save me even more memory and keep my final MS Word filesizes (facilitator
guides) small.

Saving as grayscale isn't quite enough, I'd expect. It won't remove the
backgrounds the way it used to. Drat it.

It's possible to print to Adobe PDF with PowerPoint set to print as Pure B/W
then open in Acrobat and save as PNG, for example (it won't do WMF, near as I
can tell).

You could also try EPS; Acrobat will export those as well.