[spider610]

We're having this problem that a Mac version's PowerPoint X produce a presentation but all the picture files in the ppt file can't be read from a PC. The picture file format are JPGs. Anybody experience this?

How to solve this problem?

Sincerely.

[Sage]

I've had that problem before... a real PITA. Supposedly, that problem should be solved if you do a proper "Import > Picture" workflow instead of copyin'-'n-pastin' the images in, but it didn't work for me. What I had to do was send the PP without the images, send the images separately, and have them re-imported on the PC.

A real bugger, that was. I'd also like to know if there's a fail-safe way to get it to work properly.

[i_wolf]

i hope i don't sound condescending but did have you applied all the Microsoft Updates for Office X... i believe they are at 1.5 now.

[spider610]

Originally posted by Sage:
What I had to do was send the PP without the images, send the images separately, and have them re-imported on the PC.

That'll be a terrible thing. So sounds like it's a problem with PowerPoint. How could a simple JPG file won't show up? Is it possible that some universal picture format can be use so we can avoid this problem?

[Cadaver]

Originally posted by spider610:
That'll be a terrible thing. So sounds like it's a problem with PowerPoint. How could a simple JPG file won't show up? Is it possible that some universal picture format can be use so we can avoid this problem?

JPG is supposed to be universal. Thank Microsoft for this SNAFU.

The only thing I can suggest is to make sure the JPGs are saved without any advanced features - thumbnails, progressive display, Quicktime specific features, etc. For example, use Photoshop's Save for Web feature to prevent any platform-specific formatting. Use PowerPoint's 'Import -> Picture -> From File...' to insert JPGs or GIFs, and make sure the original file sizes are manageable (i.e., don't import 4000x3000 pixel images).

If I do this carefully, I don't have problems. If I get careless, a problem might crop up. The Mac is so much more forgiving of image data format than Windows is.

Hopefully, Office 2004's compatibility checker will prevent this from occurring as often.

Edit- don't use TIFFs at all. I've found TIFFs to be very problematic in PowerPoint.

[engaged]

This has been discussed in this forum before - maybe something in this thread will be useful?!