Paste Special files always heavily bloated

[tom.s]

Version: 2004
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger)
Processor: Intel

Hi,

When I copy any created graphic with lots of text in .ppt,then Paste Special in Word, the file bloats by almost 3x!

These files cannot be saved as png or jpg because of image quality loss when it gets printed to PDF.

The question is, how or where can I adjust the settings for copy and paste so that it doesn't save it as a PICT or somehow reduce the bloat?

 

[tom.s]

When I say file I mean the graphic/picture created in .ppt.

 

[John McGhie]

When I say file I mean the graphic/picture created in .ppt.

Hi Tom:

Hmmm...

When I take a single PPT slide created exclusively in EMF and paste it into
Word, it adds 229 kb to the file. It would appear that it is pasting as
WMF.

When I paste it using Edit>Paste>Special as "Picture", it adds 813 kb to the
file. It would appear it has pasted it as PICT with a bitmap content
(probably PNG).

The PPT original was 105 kb.

Sadly, the answer to your question is "There is no way". Because you cannot
copy out of PPT 2004 in anything other than a raster format. So anything
you do after that will either lose quality or colour depth or both.

I guess the real answer to the question is "Create the original in a proper
vector-based application." That gives you the ability to save the graphic
as EPS or PDF and insert that.

Sadly, I am not sure how reliably Word 2004 handles either EPS or PDF. I
suggest you try this and see.

You need to be careful: PDF is like PICT, it can contain either raster or a
vector images. I believe I saw a report that if you created PDF from
Illustrator, unless you set the export settings correctly, you will get a
raster PDF, which will be just as fuzzy/bloated as the one PPT creates.

Sorry to be no help at all.

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[CyberTaz]

Hi Tom;

John's right -- If you want quality graphics [especially if you want to
transport them] you have to create them in a program designed to generate &
save image formats appropriate for the task. The crude graphics tools
provided for convenience in other types of programs just don't compare. The
tools may serve well within that specific file but the program itself is not
designed output the result for use elsewhere... And Copy/Paste is one of the
worst ways to handle graphic of any type.

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