Delete Cropped Area

[IFuse]

Version: 2008
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard)
Processor: Intel

In 2008 can you not "Save As" and select "Delete Cropped Area?" This has been around forever in the Win version... sad sad day for mac office.

 

[Jeff_Chapman]

If you use the Crop tool to crop out the area in the picture you want, right-click (or CTRL+click) the picture, and select Save Picture, the picture will be saved with the cropped areas removed (deleted).

Jeff

 

[CyberTaz]

Hi Jeff;

If you use the Crop tool to crop out the area in the picture you want,
right-click (or CTRL+click) the picture, and select Save Picture, the picture
will be saved with the cropped areas removed (deleted).

Jeff

That's true, but the saved version does not automatically replace the
original in the presentation. It's important to point out that the original
then needs to be deleted & the newly cropped version inserted in its place.

Regards |:>)
Bob Jones
[MVP] Office:Mac

 

[CyberTaz]

P.S. -- I should have mentioned that the easiest way to replace the image
with the new copy is to just right-click it & select Change Picture...

Regards |:>)
Bob Jones
[MVP] Office:Mac

 

[Jeff_Chapman]

Yeah, good point, Bob. I was wondering exactly what the gist of IFuse's original question was. If IFuse wants to just save a picture on a slide to a file (which is what I thought he/she was after), that can be done with the method I mentioned. But if he/she wants to actually replace the picture in the presentation with the cropped version, deleting the cropped areas completely, that would be as you said, indeed.

Back with PowerPoint 2003, I used to do it with Cut - Paste Special and selected PNG. That effectively repasted the image without the cropped-out data. However, it doesn't look like images on the clipboard can be repasted as PNG on Office 2008 for Mac (or on PPT 2004, for that matter). The only options I see are Microsoft Drawing Object (which doesn't delete the cropped-out data), Picture (which removes the cropped-out data), and PDF.

Jeff

 

[CyberTaz]

Hi Jeff;

I did interpret the question differently because I really am not sure what
feature of PC PPT s/he was referring to... Save & Save As offer no such
option nor does the Right-Click/Save As Picture command.

The option to Delete Cropped Area From Picture is in the Format Picture>
Compress dialog which has nothing to do with saving individual images as
picture files & doesn't directly have anything to do with actually saving
the presentation file. If that is what they're looking for it is correct
that the Mac version does not have that feature.

As to the Cut/Paste Special method in Mac PPT, the result as I understand it
is that the result of choosing Picture varies based on Apple's preferred
format for the Clipboard of the OS involved. Leopard & SL now use PNG but I
believe Tiger & earlier used PICT -- I think that's where the switch took
place but I'm not sure. The Windows Clipboard OTOH uses WMF/EMF I believe.

If you use the Save As Picture method, of course, you have your choice

Regards |:>)
Bob Jones
[MVP] Office:Mac

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

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As to the Cut/Paste Special method in Mac PPT, the result as I understand it
is that the result of choosing Picture varies based on Apple's preferred
format for the Clipboard of the OS involved. Leopard & SL now use PNG but I
believe Tiger & earlier used PICT --

Ah ... that's very interesting. See, we just had a thread in the WinPPT group
that might hinge on this. The user said that copy/pasted pictures from PPT Mac
never used to appear in PPT Win (the whole QT Compression thing), but that
suddenly as of 2008, no problems.

Now I'm thinking that perhaps it's Leopard, not 2008 that's the active ingredient
in this.

I think that's where the switch took
place but I'm not sure. The Windows Clipboard OTOH uses WMF/EMF I believe.

The Win clipboard's a bit different. When you copy stuff to it, the source app
can put information up there in as many formats as it likes, both standard ones
like WMF/EMF/JPG/PNG etc and also private formats.

When you paste, its up to the target app to decide which format to grab off the
clipboard. If you Paste Special, the wetware gets to see a list of the clipboard
formats that the app recognizes and to choose which to use.