Images not visible on slides produced with Powerpoint 2000 (Windows version)

[denis]

Recently a Windows user colleague sent me a presentation that had a few
slides where I couldn't see the pictures; I could select it only
(placeholders appear) . If I double-click on the picture, I get the
follwoing message: "The server application, source file or item cannot
be found. Check that the path and file name are correct, or try
reinstalling the server application." This happened with 2 slides only
(on a total of more than 30). I have never encountered thsi problem
before. I am running the latest version of Office 2004; the latest SP2
didn't solve the issue. Windows users don't have any issue with the
slide. Is there a solution?
Thank you.
Denis

 

[TAJ Simmons]

Denis

see
Can't edit Org Chart, Graph, Excel (error msg: "server application, source
file, or item can't be found")
http://www.rdpslides.com/pptfaq/FAQ00236.htm


Cheers
TAJ Simmons
microsoft powerpoint mvp

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[Steve Rindsberg]

Recently a Windows user colleague sent me a presentation that had a few
slides where I couldn't see the pictures; I could select it only
(placeholders appear) . If I double-click on the picture, I get the
follwoing message: "The server application, source file or item cannot
be found. Check that the path and file name are correct, or try
reinstalling the server application." This happened with 2 slides only
(on a total of more than 30). I have never encountered thsi problem
before. I am running the latest version of Office 2004; the latest SP2
didn't solve the issue. Windows users don't have any issue with the
slide. Is there a solution?

The fact that you got this message means that you have
OLE/ActiveX/TermOfTheWeek objects rather than normal pictures.

As these aren't supported on Mac, there's not a lot you can do.

If you can, ask the person who created the file to select the "problem"
graphics and ungroup them, then re-save to a new file and send you that.


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Steve Rindsberg, PPT MVP
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PPTools: www.pptools.com
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[denis]

Thank you for the hint. however, I am not sure as the invisible element
is a picture (probably a JPEG).

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

Thank you for the hint. however, I am not sure as the invisible element
is a picture (probably a JPEG).

Possibly, but if the user who created the file opened the JPEG in some other
app and copy/pasted it into PPT, it's not a JPG, it's an OLE object which
happens to contain JPG data. Similar, but not quite the same thing on a PC,
and very different on a Mac, which can't look inside the OLE to see the data
inside.


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

Possibly, but if the user who created the file opened the JPEG in some other
app and copy/pasted it into PPT, it's not a JPG, it's an OLE object which
happens to contain JPG data. Similar, but not quite the same thing on a PC,
and very different on a Mac, which can't look inside the OLE to see the data
inside.


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Steve Rindsberg, PPT MVP
PPT FAQ: www.pptfaq.com
PPTools: www.pptools.com
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Hi Steve,
Thanks for your feedback.
The same issue happened again today with a colleague that copied a
picture from Adobe Reader to Powerpoint (Windows 2000). With Adobe
reader, to copy an image you use the "camera" to select an area to
copy. We found that if my colleague do a "Paste special" and "Picture"
into Powerpoint, I can't see the picture.However, if he pastes "Bit Map
or "device independent bit map" it works fine with me.
Regards,
Denis