PowerPoint slide image export quality improvement

fausseplanete wrote on 8/24/2009, 11:49 AM

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/827745

Microsoft's own simple registry hack. Worked great for me just now (that's all I claim) using PowerPoint 2007. I turned the resolution up to '300' and then the fine print etc. on the slides (exported as PNG or TIF etc) looked their proper selves at last. Previously they were blotchy, even under XP's Preview, never mind Vegas.

Comments

Jay Gladwell wrote on 8/24/2009, 2:16 PM

David, just gave it a shot and the slides turned out really well (using PP 2003).

Thanks for sharing!

Dreamline wrote on 8/24/2009, 3:14 PM

Thanks for the fantastic info.

I was just wondering this very thing today when I saw this post. Worked like a charm.

Thanks again.

fausseplanete wrote on 8/25/2009, 3:09 PM

You're welcome, really glad you folks benefited from it as well.

One extra lesson I've just learnt (the hard way) - too many huge TIFs (at least in my current non standard sized project where they are placed as PIPs) caused red preview screens and crashes. And unusually large memory use.

Simple solution was to replace TIFs by PNGs - all is OK now, and still the same good quality.