PDF Snapshot image in Powerpoint 2003 won't animate

[c02homer]

I have a user who created a snapshot of a page in a PDF document and
was able to copy it into Powerpoint 2003. It looks great - but - it
will not take any animation. The snapshot displays in the animation
pane as a Text box (although you can't access the text at all) and if
you copy the snapshot, the animation pane says it is a Picture Frame.
Neither object will animate. Can anyone tell me either "why" it can't
or what I can do to get it to take an animation?

Thanks!

 

[Echo S]

The object won't animate *at all,* or it won't animate the text
line-by-line?

Depending on how the user got the image into PPT, it could show up as a
textbox. But the fact is, it's still just an image (or at least it sounds
like it is). So no, you won't be able to access the text to animate it. But
the object itself -- the entire thing all at once -- should animate. Pasting
into a placeholder on a slide ("click to add text") would make an object
show up as Text in the animation pane, but the object itself can still be
animated.

But without knowing exactly what you mean by "created a snapshot of a page
in a PDF document and was able to copy it into Powerpoint 2003," it's hard
to say with any kind of certainty. If the user took a screen shot using
Alt+PrintScrn, did they then paste in an image editor and save an image, and
if so, how'd they get the image into PPT? Did they use Insert/Picture/From
File, or did they use Insert/Object/From File? Or did they use Alt+PrintScrn
and paste directly into a placeholder on a PPT slide? Or maybe they used the
select tool in Acrobat Reader and then pasted into a placeholder on the PPT
slide?

 

[c02homer]

We have solved this. The Snapshot is a tool in Acrobat Reader that
captures the screen image of the document only. It is copied directly
to the clipboard. In PowerPoint, you Paste the image. Looks great but
won't do anything with animation. It is NOT text of any kind, but the
animation pane says Text.

We have discovered that if you right click on the image and choose Save
As, that the image is a .png file. For some reason, PowerPoint can't
do anything with it. So we saved it as a .jpg, deleted the .png file,
inserted the new .jpg and everything is fine.

Thank you for your response!!

 

[Echo S]

Wow. Glad to hear you got it resolved! (That's not what I would have thought
would do it, that's for sure!)