Picture from Mac not Displaying in PowerPoint on a PC

[tshad]

I am getting a message from a couple of slided in my PowerPoint presentation
that I created on my Mac and am trying to run on a PC that say:

QuickTime and a
TIFF(LZW) decompressor
are needed to see this picture.

What is this and how do I fix this?

I normally don't have a problem with pictures from my Mac to my PC. but I
do in a few cases where I get this.

The PowerPoint works fine on the Mac.

Thanks,

Tom.

 

[TAJ Simmons]

Tom,

see
QuickTime and a TIFF (or JPEG) decompressor are needed to see this picture
http://www.pptfaq.com/FAQ00534.htm


cheers
TAJ Simmons

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[Ed]

I am getting a message from a couple of slided in my PowerPoint presentation
that I created on my Mac and am trying to run on a PC that say:

QuickTime and a
TIFF(LZW) decompressor
are needed to see this picture.

What is this and how do I fix this?

I normally don't have a problem with pictures from my Mac to my PC. but I
do in a few cases where I get this.

The PowerPoint works fine on the Mac.

Thanks,

Tom.

I've had this problem as well. Sometimes I found that "standard"
formats like gif and jpeg sometimes fail to translate from the Mac to
PowerPoint/Windows. The solution I found is to safe all my graphic
files as png files. This files will appear in PowerPoint/Windows. But
-- and this is a BIG BUT -- png files look fuzzy. PowerPoint was
originally a Macintosh only program. You'd think that Microsoft would
have found a way to fix this glitch in the last 20 years.

Ed

 

[riverpainter]

snip

Open the pictures in Photoshop --- [ or Graphic Converter : see that
*fabulous shareware at http://Lempkesoft.com ; been using it since
'96 ].

File> save as> Tiff > Discard layers and save a copy; use no
compression; PC bit order > Save in your ppt folder ; reinsert.
Better yet, insert pics in PPT on PC.

(or png as Ed said above)

 

[Jim Gordon MVP]

Hi,

Windows PowerPoint's support for QuickTime is lame.

To avoid this problem, instead of pasting pictures into the presentation use
Insert > Picture > From File (which presumes you saved the picture as a file
first).

When you paste a picture into an office application on the Mac the file
format requires the QuickTime decompressor on Windows, and Windows
PowerPoint is oblivious to QuickTime even it is installed properly on the
Windows computer.

-Jim

I've had this problem as well. Sometimes I found that "standard"
formats like gif and jpeg sometimes fail to translate from the Mac to
PowerPoint/Windows. The solution I found is to safe all my graphic
files as png files. This files will appear in PowerPoint/Windows. But
-- and this is a BIG BUT -- png files look fuzzy. PowerPoint was
originally a Macintosh only program. You'd think that Microsoft would
have found a way to fix this glitch in the last 20 years.

Ed

--
Jim Gordon
Mac MVP

MVPs are not Microsoft Employees
MVP info

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

Windows PowerPoint's support for QuickTime is lame.

Point of order (doesn't affect the advice you've given, mind you):

I suspect it's more a case of Windows not using any system-level image
compression the way Mac does. I doubt whether ANY Windows app can deal with
QT-compressed images.

To avoid this problem, instead of pasting pictures into the presentation use
Insert > Picture > From File (which presumes you saved the picture as a file
first).

When you paste a picture into an office application on the Mac the file
format requires the QuickTime decompressor on Windows, and Windows
PowerPoint is oblivious to QuickTime even it is installed properly on the
Windows computer.

I think that the Windows QT software is only a media-player (movies, sounds) but
does nothing with images. And as Windows has no notion of a system-level service
for compressing/decompressing images the way CODECs do for sound/video, there'd
be no Windows-level app support for it if QT *did* support image compression on
the PC.

Which, come to think of it, is a very good reason for Apple not to have bothered
implementing it. Why spend the money to develop a fuel-injected race engine when
you're headed for a bicycle race? ;-)

 

[Jim Gordon MVP]

Point of order (doesn't affect the advice you've given, mind you):

I suspect it's more a case of Windows not using any system-level image
compression the way Mac does. I doubt whether ANY Windows app can deal with
QT-compressed images.

I've always been under the impression one of the supposed advantages of
Windows is the vastly larger range of applications and capabilities of
Windows apps when compared with Mac apps. It's not like this Windows
QuickTime deficiency is a new or insignificant.

I think that the Windows QT software is only a media-player (movies, sounds)
but
does nothing with images. And as Windows has no notion of a system-level
service
for compressing/decompressing images the way CODECs do for sound/video,
there'd
be no Windows-level app support for it if QT *did* support image compression
on
the PC.

Which, come to think of it, is a very good reason for Apple not to have
bothered
implementing it. Why spend the money to develop a fuel-injected race engine
when
you're headed for a bicycle race? ;-)

You make it sound like building something in Windows that actually would
work right is impossible. Is Windows really that bad?

--
Jim Gordon
Mac MVP

MVPs are not Microsoft Employees
MVP info

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

I've always been under the impression one of the supposed advantages of
Windows is the vastly larger range of applications and capabilities of
Windows apps when compared with Mac apps. It's not like this Windows
QuickTime deficiency is a new or insignificant.

Seen from a Windows perspective, it's not such a a big deal, though.
Windows users don't make QT files so have relatively little need of consuming
them. More or less off the radar, ya see.

You make it sound like building something in Windows that actually would
work right is impossible. Is Windows really that bad?

Now now. Lookit what happens in the news every time they get started in with
r-wars. Not going to go there, nuh-uh. ;-)

"Different" <> "Better" <> "Worse"



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[Jim Gordon MVP]

But they do!

QuickTime Pro is a popular PC app, and certainly iTunes is. Any Windows
users hear of or use MPEG-4? That's Apple's QuickTime!

http://www.apple.com/quicktime/technologies/mpeg4/

-Jim

Seen from a Windows perspective, it's not such a a big deal, though.
Windows users don't make QT files so have relatively little need of consuming
them. More or less off the radar, ya see.

--
Jim Gordon
Mac MVP

MVPs are not Microsoft Employees
MVP info

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

QuickTime Pro is a popular PC app, and certainly iTunes is. Any Windows

users hear of or use MPEG-4? That's Apple's QuickTime!

Quicktime is very tightly locked up by Apple. Ask a developer who's tried to
acquire a license to do much of anything with Quicktime under Windows. Sure
iTunes is popular ... it's the only way to use an iPod with a PC. And it's worth
it for that, the iPod being a superb piece of hardware.

But I also had a music player that didn't need anything at all .. plug it in,
drag files to it ... for all the PC (or Mac) cared, it was a USB drive.

What to do, what to do? Ah. Hook the iPod to the Mac, give the other player
away, leave iTunes off the PC. Works for me. <g>

http://www.apple.com/quicktime/technologies/mpeg4/

-Jim

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[Cooper]

I have tried all this even running a marco, I have no photoshop software and can't get any, and re-inserting the pics is out of the question.

 

[Guest]

I don't know why but when this happens to me, I go back to my mac, cut the image and then paste special as "picture". This works for me 95% of the time.

 

[Guest]

Issue only seems to occur when dragging and dropping images from Safari or copying and pasting out of Preview so ensure that the images are being saved first and then inserted into PowerPoint. Although it is convenient, dragging and dropping is probably not the best way to get the images in the presentation, stick to Insert&gt; Picture&gt; From File.

 

[Rob]

Issue only seems to occur when dragging and dropping images from Safari orcopying and pasting out of Preview so ensure that the images are being saved first and then inserted into PowerPoint. Although it is convenient, dragging and dropping is probably not the best way to get the images in the presentation, stick to Insert> Picture> From File.

On a related issue, I have a perplexing (to me) problem. I have put
together a ppt presentation on a mac PB using ppt.v.X. I burned it to
a cd using Toast v.7., making a hybrid, mac/windows compatible. Here's
what I don't understand: It plays fine on the Mac. It also plays fine
on an old Dell loaded with ppt. v.97. But when I try to play the cd on
the Windows XP (Boot Camp) side of my new 24" iMac several of the
graphics don't show. On the XP side I only have ppt. viewer, not the
full ppt program. Is the ppt viewer the problem?

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

On a related issue, I have a perplexing (to me) problem. I have put
together a ppt presentation on a mac PB using ppt.v.X. I burned it to
a cd using Toast v.7., making a hybrid, mac/windows compatible. Here's
what I don't understand: It plays fine on the Mac. It also plays fine
on an old Dell loaded with ppt. v.97. But when I try to play the cd on
the Windows XP (Boot Camp) side of my new 24" iMac several of the
graphics don't show. On the XP side I only have ppt. viewer, not the
full ppt program. Is the ppt viewer the problem?

Try reducing Graphics Hardware Acceleration in XP:

How to set graphics hardware acceleration back
http://www.pptfaq.com/FAQ00129.htm

 

[Rob]

Try reducing Graphics Hardware Acceleration in XP:

How to set graphics hardware acceleration backhttp://www.pptfaq.com/FAQ00129.htm

Thanks for the suggestion Steve. But reducing graphics acceleration
didn't help. Strange thing is that I have several ppt presentations,
which I have used for years. Only one acts strangely on my XP system.
Perhaps I'll try to reinsert the graphics. I'm not certain, but it's
possible that I dragged them into the ppt window when I should have
"inserted" them.
Rob

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

Thanks for the suggestion Steve. But reducing graphics acceleration
didn't help. Strange thing is that I have several ppt presentations,
which I have used for years. Only one acts strangely on my XP system.
Perhaps I'll try to reinsert the graphics. I'm not certain, but it's
possible that I dragged them into the ppt window when I should have
"inserted" them.

Another thing you can try from the Windows side is "round-tripping"
This can help to remove corrupted objects that might be causing odd problems.

HTML "Round-tripping" to repair corruption
http://www.pptfaq.com/FAQ00526.htm

Our free StarterSet addin for PPT automates this for you:

http://www.pptools.com/starterset/




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[Rob]

Another thing you can try from the Windows side is "round-tripping"
This can help to remove corrupted objects that might be causing odd problems.

HTML "Round-tripping" to repair corruptionhttp://www.pptfaq.com/FAQ00526.htm

Our free StarterSet addin for PPT automates this for you:

http://www.pptools.com/starterset/

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Steve Rindsberg, PPT MVP
PPT FAQ:  www.pptfaq.com
PPTools:  www.pptools.com
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Steve, reinserting the missing graphics solved the problem. What I
don't understand is that the presentation worked under previous
versions of Windows, but not in XP on my iMac.

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

Steve, reinserting the missing graphics solved the problem. What I
don't understand is that the presentation worked under previous
versions of Windows, but not in XP on my iMac.

Hard to say why, but in some cases, especially when presentations are edited a lot, PPT
could lose its "pointers" to image data, particularly in older versions; it's not
totally fixed (or rather, I suspect MS hasn't tracked down and fixed all the various
causes), but newer versions than 97 are less fragile in this regard.

Still ... why in XP but not in other Windows versions? Very odd.
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PPT FAQ: www.pptfaq.com
PPTools: www.pptools.com
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[paulcwr]

get that same problem when pasting an excel chart into powerpoint (if i chose 'paste as picture'. this is really unacceptable since the whole point of buying office is to be able to use content from one programme into the other. the workarounds offered here work but i can't see myself doing this everyime. what is strange is that it used to work a couple weeks ago and still works with office 2004 for mac. i started having this problem when upgrading to office 2008. does anyone have that problem? can anyone paste graphs from excel 08 to powerpoint 08?