"treat picture layers as separate objects" grayed out

[DKM]

Version: 2008
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
Processor: Intel

I'm inserting a pdf on a slide. The pdf has several pages, and I want to be able to have all available in the slide presentation. This is possible and available in Powerpoint on a PC -- in fact, that's how the slide was given to me. When I Insert>Piture, this option (treat picture layers as separate objects) is visible but grayed out -- and that's esactly what I want to do. How do I make this available -- or is it a bug?

 

[CyberTaz]

I'm afraid you'll need to be far more explicit as to what method or
procedure you're referring to - especially with version information. PDF is
not a "picture" format & isn't recognized as such by either version of PPt -
Mac or PC - through the most current versions (2008/07).

Additionally, *pages* in a PDF are not the same as *layers* in an image
file, although I believe that PDFs which support layers can be created. Even
if that's true the PDF has to be generated from a layered document & the
layers would need to be preserved in the process. The feature you're
referring to pertains to valid image file formats such as TIFF & PSD which
do support layering & isn't intended to simply extract the pages of a PDF as
separate images.

No offense, but I seriously doubt that the slide you were given was created
in quite the manner you describe. If you can provide complete step-by-step
details I for one would be most grateful & knowing how this might be
accomplished on the PC may give some insight on how to do it on a Mac. But
AFAIK PDFs are inserted as Objects & only the top-most "page" actually
displays on the slide. Dbl-Clicking the PDF object will open the PDF in
Preview, Reader, whatever, where the additional pages can be viewed.

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