"SLIDE OBJECT" in a Word Document???

[John Clements]

Background info: I was asked to use an image (a photograph) in a Word
document which was emailed to me. Naturally, I wanted the original image,
but the origninator of the document is out of town. When I right-clicked on
the image, I saw an "edit Slide Object" option .... which I selected. The
image opened up in PowerPoint. **My assumption is that the originator
pasted** the PowerPoint object into the Word document.

My question is this. Is a PowerPoint slide object capable of storing the
image in all its full glory (orignal resolution and color mode, ie., 16, 24,
or 32 bit) and what is the best method to get it into an image editing
program such as PhotoPaint or PhotoShop?

 

[Sonia]

In PowerPoint you can save a slide as an image. To improve the resolution I
go to File > Page Setup and set it to 20" X 15" and then save it and open in
an image editor.

 

[John O]

I believe if you copy and paste the image into PhotoEdit (the MS bitmap
editor) you have a chance to get the original image. From there you can Save
as and use PP or PS.

 

[Ute Simon]

Background info: I was asked to use an image (a photograph) in a Word
document which was emailed to me. Naturally, I wanted the original image,
but the origninator of the document is out of town. When I right-clicked on
the image, I saw an "edit Slide Object" option .... which I selected. The
image opened up in PowerPoint. **My assumption is that the originator
pasted** the PowerPoint object into the Word document.

My question is this. Is a PowerPoint slide object capable of storing the
image in all its full glory (orignal resolution and color mode, ie., 16, 24,
or 32 bit) and what is the best method to get it into an image editing
program such as PhotoPaint or PhotoShop?

John,
if you're using PPT 2002/xp (please always tell us the version you're
using!), you might right click and choose "Save image as". Usually you'll
get an 150 dpi image then.

Kind regards,
Ute

 

[John Clements]

Ute and Sonia,

Ute, I should know better ....I am using PowerPoint 2000 (at least until the
end of this week when I will hopefully have a new laptop).

Sonia, the technique you described is one that I have used before and always
with success. However, in this case, it did not work and it is a mistery to
me. Let me explain. After opening the Slide Object in PPT, I increase the
Page size by two fold (20 x 15), exported it to html, and opened the
resulting JPG file in PhotoPaint to check its properties. Contrary to all
previous experience, the image was its orinigal "size" (approx 10" x 7.5" at
96 dpi). I then went back to PPT and right-clicked on the slide and noticed
that slide object had the image saved as a BACKGROUND. It seems that the
Page Size trick wont work on a background in PPT2000.

My solution to enlarge the image without causing too much distortion
("chunkiness") was to use a program called S-Spline.

Regards, John

 

[Sonia]

Yes, if the image was inserted as a background, then what you see is what
you get. If you can actually select the image on the slide, you can copy
and paste it into Microsoft Photo Editor and get the original resolution.
Note, this only works in Photo Editor.

 

[John Clements]

Sonia and Ute, thanks.
This has been enlightening. I am sure am glad there aren't too many hoops
to jump through.
Regards.