Exporting EMF graphics from PP

[Marcw]

We are experiencing problems exporting EMF graphics from PowerPoint.
Our current process is to export as WMF, however we have received
requests to use EMF instead. What we are finding is that a graphic that
is exported as WMF is 624 x 354 Pixels while the same graphic exported
as EMF is 3900 x 2212 Pixels. In many cases we are not actually
exporting the graphics, but rather copy and pasting them into Word
documents where the graphics are extracted and converted to GIF for
html. The increase in size makes them unusable and so we are presently
limiting our users to WMF. Any ideas?

Thanks,

Marc Wiener
Gartner, Inc.

 

[Echo S]

If you use a right-click and Save as Picture instead of pasting into Word,
does that do any better?

What kind of graphics are you doing this with? Are they just autoshapes?

 

[Marcw]

For the most part they are pie charts, bar graphs etc.

If you right click and save you get the same result.

Marc

If you use a right-click and Save as Picture instead of pasting into Word,
does that do any better?

What kind of graphics are you doing this with? Are they just autoshapes?

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We are experiencing problems exporting EMF graphics from PowerPoint.
Our current process is to export as WMF, however we have received
requests to use EMF instead. What we are finding is that a graphic that
is exported as WMF is 624 x 354 Pixels while the same graphic exported
as EMF is 3900 x 2212 Pixels. In many cases we are not actually
exporting the graphics, but rather copy and pasting them into Word
documents where the graphics are extracted and converted to GIF for
html. The increase in size makes them unusable and so we are presently
limiting our users to WMF. Any ideas?

Thanks,

Marc Wiener
Gartner, Inc.

 

[Marcw]

We're taking them out of PP and pasting or inserting them into Word.
The Word file is used to create XML and the graphics are also extracted
from the Word doc. Depending on our outputs we either use the original
(for PDF) or convert them to GIF (html).

Over the years we've found that the best results come from pasting as
WMF. I am aware that these are vector based formats, but do not know
why the graphic appears to be sized properly in an Office App, but is
much larger when viewed with a graphics viewer or by just dragging into
IE.

Thanks,

Marc

 

[Brian Reilly, MVP]

Marc,
Steve Rindsberg is the man to discuss this with in great detail. You
already have my email address from Kathleen. Drop me a note and Steve
and I can set up a conference call to discuss in more detail.

Brian Reilly, MVP