[AG-TECH] mac graphics in powerpoint missing

[Tom Coffin]

http://www.rdpslides.com/pptfaq/FAQ00534.htm



Problem
You open a presentation created on a Mac in a Windows version of PowerPoint 
and get a message similar to this:

QuickTime(TM) and a Photo - JPEG decompressor are needed to see this picture.

(It might mention TIFF or some other decompressor instead)

Solution
<http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;198204&Product=ppt>PPT2000: 
QuickTime PICT Placeholder Appears in Place of Graphic

The problem, in a nutshell, is that PowerPoint/Windows doesn't support 
QuickTime compression.
To solve the problem, you'll need to re-save then re-insert the graphic 
into PowerPoint on the Mac.

Open the original graphic in the program that created it
Choose File, Save As
Select No Compression in the save options
Switch to PowerPoint, choose Insert, Picture, From File and choose the 
newly saved picture.

These instructions are very generic. The menu options for your graphics 
program will be different; you'll probably need to do some experimenting to 
find the right set of options.

We'd like to hear about it in the PowerPoint newsgroup (Mac or PC) if you 
come up with a good recipe that you'd like to have posted here.




At 10:14 AM 8/30/2005, Tom Coffin wrote:

>Some graphics on powerpoint slides generated by MACs
>do not display on PC's. theres a text error in it's place which
>reads that quicktime and a tiff uncompressed decompressor
>are needed to see this picture. Has anyone else seen this?


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