PDFs bombing out when using slides from PPT 2007

[bakerbiz]

I am creating a PDFs from MS Word 2002 files. When I am working in a file
that has some PowerPoint graphics dropped into it, it bombs out. If I use
..tif files instead of PPT graphics it works. This also happened with one of
my coworkers when she was using PageMaker with a graphic from PPT 2007
inserted into it. The common denominators seem to be PPT 2007 graphics and
Acrobat 8 Professional. Any insights?

 

[Michael Koerner]

PowerPoint doesn't have graphics. You can save individual slides as a
graphic image with an option to save as TIFF.How are you creating PowerPoint
graphics?


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Michael Koerner
MS MVP - PowerPoint


I am creating a PDFs from MS Word 2002 files. When I am working in a file
that has some PowerPoint graphics dropped into it, it bombs out. If I use
..tif files instead of PPT graphics it works. This also happened with one of
my coworkers when she was using PageMaker with a graphic from PPT 2007
inserted into it. The common denominators seem to be PPT 2007 graphics and
Acrobat 8 Professional. Any insights?

 

[Echo S]

The PDF conversion process often has trouble with transparencies and
gradients. If you save the PPT slide as an image -- PNG or TIF works well --
then the PDF can handle converting that.

 

[bakerbiz]

They are charts and graphs that were created in PowerPoint and dropped into
Word, using "paste special" and then "picture". In some cases I have no idea
where the graphics came from (I'm using files from multiple authors) - but
they look like charts that were created in PowerPoint or Excel.

I have been able to create PDFs using this process in the past (5 years
running). We recently upgraded Acrobat at work. Now one of the techies
thinks that a component of Acrobat wasn't installed, so hopefully they can
resolve it.

 

[Michael Koerner]

What Echo has suggested is what I would do also.

--
Michael Koerner
MS MVP - PowerPoint


They are charts and graphs that were created in PowerPoint and dropped into
Word, using "paste special" and then "picture". In some cases I have no
idea
where the graphics came from (I'm using files from multiple authors) - but
they look like charts that were created in PowerPoint or Excel.

I have been able to create PDFs using this process in the past (5 years
running). We recently upgraded Acrobat at work. Now one of the techies
thinks that a component of Acrobat wasn't installed, so hopefully they can
resolve it.