PPT Mac to PC missing images

[jay]

Has anyone else had trouble with graphics and charts when sending PPT
files from Mac to PC? My presentations often look fine on the Mac, but
when I send them to PC users (using XP or 2000), they get big red X
boxes, or text to the effect that the images are unsupported QuickTime
files (even when they have QT for Windows on their machines).

The issue is not predictable. Some JPG, GIF, or PNG images show up just
fine. Others do not.

I also have had trouble with Graphs and Org Charts created in Office
Mac 2004 working on the PC.

Help!

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

Has anyone else had trouble with graphics and charts when sending PPT
files from Mac to PC? My presentations often look fine on the Mac, but
when I send them to PC users (using XP or 2000), they get big red X
boxes, or text to the effect that the images are unsupported QuickTime
files (even when they have QT for Windows on their machines).

QT for windows only supports Movies and some sound files but not graphics file
compression. If your image files use QT compression, PPT can't display them on
the PC.



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Steve Rindsberg, PPT MVP
PPT FAQ: www.pptfaq.com
PPTools: www.pptools.com
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[Richard T. Kenney]

QT for windows only supports Movies and some sound files but not graphics file
compression. If your image files use QT compression, PPT can't display them
on
the PC.



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Steve Rindsberg, PPT MVP
PPT FAQ: www.pptfaq.com
PPTools: www.pptools.com
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This is a basic platform problem that Microsoft has never resolved. The Mac
OS uses PICT files by default and the PC uses BMAP protocol - neither will
read the other. You can convert almost any file to JPG with common
utilities, such as GraphicConverter (www.lemkesoft.com). If anyone knows a
more useful workaround, I would be very interested in hearing about it.

Rick Kenney

 

[Noel and Cathy Bailey]

This is a basic platform problem that Microsoft has never resolved. The Mac
OS uses PICT files by default and the PC uses BMAP protocol - neither will
read the other. You can convert almost any file to JPG with common
utilities, such as GraphicConverter (www.lemkesoft.com). If anyone knows a
more useful workaround, I would be very interested in hearing about it.

Rick Kenney

Don't know if this helps: I used to have this problem when I got JPEG files
off the web and copied them into PowerPoint (Mac) directly. As a teacher I
do this quite a lot! I found that by downloading the JPEGs to my Mac and
saving them, then copying into PowerPoint the problem did not occur and they
showed up just fine under Windows XP.

Not tried it with charts, though.

Noel Bailey
UK