EPS-Graphics

[Patrick Zirngast]

Hi,
I¹m just working on a presentation for my class and I have to incorporate
some eps-Graphics from the book I¹m using. Every time I insert one of those
and hit the save-Button, PP crashes. Kinda anoying.
I guess that all updates are installed: Version 12.1.2(080729)

Anyone with some help?

Thanks,
Patrick

 

[CyberTaz]

This is most likely an extension of the bug introduced by the 12.1.2 update
involving PDF & some EPS files when saving in the 97-2004 file format. As of
today there is no fix.

Save your file as .pptx & you should be OK.

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

 

[Patrick Zirngast]

Thanks,
Thought saving it as .docx won't help much, as we are having Office 2003 in
our lecture rooms and at least here in Austria nearly nobody is really happy
getting docx files

I converted the file into png, which worked fine with pp.

Patrick

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

This is most likely an extension of the bug introduced by the 12.1.2 update
involving PDF & some EPS files when saving in the 97-2004 file format. As of
today there is no fix.

Hmmm. That prompts a thought.

ISTR that most recent versions of Illustrator as something they call EPS but
which includes all manner of other stuff that could well confuse PPT.

I don't have Illustrator but I'm pretty sure that you can save as a type of EPS
that's more like "pure" EPS. Just a preview and PS graphics information. It
might be a matter of choosing EPS for an earlier Illo version or the like.

That's be well worth a try.

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[Patrick Zirngast]

Hi,
Thanks for the input, but I'm not really familiar with Illustrator and how
eps works at all - for me that's the one file format I'm absolutely not
familiar with. Guess it works pretty straight foreward.

Cheers
patrick

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

Hi,
Thanks for the input, but I'm not really familiar with Illustrator and how
eps works at all - for me that's the one file format I'm absolutely not
familiar with. Guess it works pretty straight foreward.

Quite the opposite. Adobe's managed to confuse the heck out of the spec by
confusing it with Illustrator AI format (similar but different) and PDF (similar
to both in some ways but different again).

If you have Illustrator, try creating a simple graphic and doing a Save As.
Let us know the options it offers.

Cheers
patrick

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PPTools: www.pptools.com
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[CyberTaz]

Hi Steve;

Illy's [CS3] Save As options are fairly limited if that's all you look at;

Adobe Illustrator Document (AI)
Illy EPS
Illy Template
Adobe PDF
SVG Compressed (svgz)
SVG

However, it also has an Export command in the File menu which often goes
overlooked. *That's* where you find all the formats that many seem to
believe they don't have;

BMP Targa PNG AutoCad Drawing AutoCad Interchange
EMF SWF JPEG PICT Photoshop (PSD) TIFF Text (TXT) WMF

There's also a MS Office specific command which defaults to PNG.

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

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

Thanks, Bob.

If the graphic is happy as an image, I'd go for PNG.
If it needs to be editable as a vector, I'd try PICT, EMF and WMF then insert each
onto a slide in PPT and ungroup them to see which works best.

Hi Steve;

Illy's [CS3] Save As options are fairly limited if that's all you look at;

Adobe Illustrator Document (AI)
Illy EPS
Illy Template
Adobe PDF
SVG Compressed (svgz)
SVG

However, it also has an Export command in the File menu which often goes
overlooked. *That's* where you find all the formats that many seem to
believe they don't have;

BMP Targa PNG AutoCad Drawing AutoCad Interchange
EMF SWF JPEG PICT Photoshop (PSD) TIFF Text (TXT) WMF

There's also a MS Office specific command which defaults to PNG.

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

Quite the opposite. Adobe's managed to confuse the heck out of the spec by
confusing it with Illustrator AI format (similar but different) and PDF
(similar
to both in some ways but different again).

If you have Illustrator, try creating a simple graphic and doing a Save As.
Let us know the options it offers.



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Steve Rindsberg, PPT MVP
PPT FAQ: www.pptfaq.com
PPTools: www.pptools.com
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Steve Rindsberg, PPT MVP
PPT FAQ: www.pptfaq.com
PPTools: www.pptools.com
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