Lost images

[il barbi]

I recovered an old .ppt but unfortunately there are many images not
displaying in the slides. Unfortunately I can't remind whether they were
inserted or linked, anyway I can select them by clicking (their square frame
appears). Does it mean they were linked? Unfortunately going in the menu
"modify" the item "links" is not active. So they are inserted, aren't they?
But then why don't they display?
Is it possible to recover them?
I only recall the .ppt was in a notebook running Win98 and I copied it on a
PC running WinXP, but in both cases Powerpoint was the same (Office 2000)
il barbi

 

[TAJ Simmons]

il barbi

see
Show me the link and let me edit it
http://www.pptfaq.com/FAQ00433.htm


cheers
TAJ Simmons
Microsoft Powerpoint MVP

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[John Wilson]

Hi il barbi

Are you running 2000 now? Broken links would normally show as a red X

If it is 2003 are you up to date with service packs?
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[il barbi]

il barbi

see
Show me the link and let me edit it
http://www.pptfaq.com/FAQ00433.htm

thank you, now I see the links, the linked images exist and are in the
correct directories but they do not display...:-(
il barbi

 

[il barbi]

thank you, now I see the links, the linked images exist and are in the
correct directories but they do not display...:-(
il barbi

sorry the last post was wrong, indeed the directory was NOT correct and now
by replacing it I can see the images
Now I have some questions:
1) does this mean that the link are expressed in an absolute way and so when
displacing the .ppt or copying it on a CD the images will not display? (by
comparison in Word the links are expressed in relative form so there is no
problem when displacing the .ppt)
2) the macro you kindly signalled (free) would not allow to change the link
(they say only the commercial version can do it), yet I tried it and I got
VBA error but anyway the link was changed and the image displayed correctly
3) in order to bypass such problem, is it possible to embed all images that
are currently linked, possibly without being forced to edit them one by one?
Note that many have an associated animation so if I try "cancel + insert
embedded" the animation will disappear and I'm forced to recreate it
manually
il barbi

 

[TAJ Simmons]

il barbi

1) does this mean that the link are expressed in an absolute way and so
when displacing the .ppt or copying it on a CD the images will not
display? (by comparison in Word the links are expressed in relative form
so there is no problem when displacing the .ppt)

I believe if you put the images in the same folder as your .ppt file
Then powerpoint should find the pictures.

2) the macro you kindly signalled (free) would not allow to change the
link (they say only the commercial version can do it), yet I tried it and
I got VBA error but anyway the link was changed and the image displayed
correctly

email the author regarding this.

3) in order to bypass such problem, is it possible to embed all images
that are currently linked, possibly without being forced to edit them one
by one? Note that many have an associated animation so if I try "cancel +
insert embedded" the animation will disappear and I'm forced to recreate
it manually

I believe one of the add-ins from pptfaq.com does have such a feature (but I
could be wrong) - of changing the linked images to embedding images.

Cheers
TAJ

 

[John Wilson]

There's a free add in here that will do what you want BUT it's wrotten for
2000. It will still work but only animations present in 2000 will be
preserved, others will become appear animations.

If you want all the pics to have the same animation it (probably) wouldn't
be hard to search for pics with appear and change them to eg fade

Something like this

Sub swap_anim()
Dim osld As Slide
Dim oshp As Shape
Dim oeff As Effect
For Each osld In ActivePresentation.Slides
For Each oshp In osld.Shapes
If oshp.Type = msoPicture Then
Set oeff = osld.TimeLine.MainSequence.FindFirstAnimationFor(oshp)
If oeff.EffectType = msoAnimEffectAppear _
Then oeff.EffectType = msoAnimEffectFade
End If
Next
Next
End Sub
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[il barbi]

il barbi


I believe if you put the images in the same folder as your .ppt file
Then powerpoint should find the pictures.

ok I fixed it all namely I found the .ppt was displaced with respect to the
unique pathname of the links of the images, so I moved there the .ppt and
all worked. Moreover I ran the macro and changed all pathnames to relative,
the macro ended with VBA error anyway did what it had to do and now I'm able
to move all over the HD my .ppt and images and all displays correctly
Many thanks for the macro
il barbi

 

[il barbi]

Yes. The free FixLinks demo will do that
http://www.pptools.com/fixlinks/

It doesn't do it by default, though. You'll need to follow the
instructions
here:

TIP: How to embed linked images
http://www.pptools.com/fixlinks/FAQ00032.htm

Now I was able to move all linked images in the correct position as from
their links in the .ppt and so the .ppt runs correctly and the animations
too. Then I tried FixLinks to embed all linked images after setting
EmbedImageLinks = YES in [FIXLINKS PRO] in PPTools.ini, it was able to embed
many images but not all, it says "Picture x couldn't be located and
unlinked"
il barbi

 

[il barbi]

3) in order to bypass such problem, is it possible to embed all images
that
are currently linked, possibly without being forced to edit them one
by
one?

Yes. The free FixLinks demo will do that
http://www.pptools.com/fixlinks/

It doesn't do it by default, though. You'll need to follow the
instructions
here:

TIP: How to embed linked images
http://www.pptools.com/fixlinks/FAQ00032.htm

Now I was able to move all linked images in the correct position as from
their links in the .ppt and so the .ppt runs correctly and the animations
too. Then I tried FixLinks to embed all linked images after setting
EmbedImageLinks = YES in [FIXLINKS PRO] in PPTools.ini, it was able to
embed
many images but not all, it says "Picture x couldn't be located and
unlinked"

That's possible ... if the picture isn't available (that is, not where the
link
points) then it can't be reinserted for embedding.

It should have asked you to locate the picture when it couldn't find it
along
the linked path. Did it do that?

no - Now it's better I explain more deeply. At the beginning there were some
linked images in some directories, namely some .jpg in the same directory as
the .ppt and some other .jpg in some subdirectories. Then the .ppt and the
..jpg's were displaced in another directory, with the same subdirectories,
and the old tree was deleted. In order to make the .ppt to perform
correctly, before trying to embed the jpg's, I thought I had to rely on the
links as they were currently specified in the .ppt, i.e. referring to the
deleted tree. So I recreated the deleted tree and moved in it all the .jpg's
in the correct positions, thus I think I have exactly reproduced the
original situation, and ideed the .ppt performed correctly. Yet by trying
the embedding with FixLinks some .jpg's were embedded and some didn't.
Moreover this is independent by the .jpg's being involved in animations.
Is there some reason why a picture can't be located even if it just is in
the place it must be in?
il barbi