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Another demo of PowerPoint 2007 Graphics

As I go through my team's presentations I take available opportunities to replace bitmaps in those slides with the native graphics features in powerpoint.

 

And then I found this slide:

 

At first I doubted that I could replace the bitmap with native powerpoint graphics, but with a little bit of experimentation I made this:

 

 

I've attached the deck with both slides: PowerPoint-Experiment-(2007-06-03).pptx

Here's the size difference in the slides:

  • With bitmap: 666Kb (681,709 bytes)
  • Without bitmap: 70Kb (70,800 bytes)
Published Sunday, June 03, 2007 2:10 PM by saveenr

Attachment(s): PowerPoint-Experiment-(2007-06-03).pptx

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# Graphics operator

Interesting comparison. What do you find to be the best way of dealing with logos if you can't get vector versions of them? I recently went through my company's PPT presentations and replaced many bitmap versions with jpegs and tiffs saved at medium or low res in Photoshop. The result was cleaner logos and slightly lower file size. I think this worked better than PPTs global pix compression feature. Also, I like PPTs graphics tools a lot, but find that things like beveled circles are very ragged at the edges. Do you have a technique for smoothing this out?

Thank you.

Tuesday, October 14, 2008 7:53 AM by pierre kahn

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