Re: Exporting images from Powerpoint ?
An easy way? Don't be silly, this is an MS product! g Try this in Office X Open presentation Choose save as Change format to TIFF (or JPEG or whatever you want) Click the options button Ignore the top box (Save options) set your export options in the lower box Click OK, then navigate to your save location Voila HTH John -- John Winters Phone +61 8 9367 9277 Fax +61 8 9367 9244 [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Craig Ringer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2004 20:53:12 +0800 To: WAMUG Mailing List wamug@wamug.org.au Subject: Re: Exporting images from Powerpoint ? On Fri, 2004-07-23 at 20:32, Stephen Chape wrote: Does anyone know how to get the images off a Powerpoint presentation as individual JPG's ? I must be dumb or blind because I cannot see it in the help menus. I don't know if there's an official way, but I've had some success with copying and pasting the images into a graphics app then saving the resulting file. My usual method is to open the document in OpenOffice, save it in the OpenOffice native format, unzip the OpenOffice file (they're really just Zip files) and extract the graphics. This is clumsy, but easier then manually copying,pasting, and saving a large number of images. It has the added advantage that it doesn't involve decoding and re-encoding the image, which is important if you're dealing with a JPEG image of already marginal quality. I'd suggest you try copy and paste first, not least because OpenOffice isn't exactly staple fare on the mac at the moment. If someone can say no, you idiot, here's the easy way I'll be delighted, as this is something that's been irritating me for a while. Some advertisers will insist on ignoring our accepted formats list and send their logo etc as part of a word document. Sometimes we have people send a word document with just an image in it. My favourite is when I ask for them to send just the image as a separate attachment ... so they create a new word doc, insert the image, and send us that. -- Craig Ringer -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] WAMUG is powered by Stalker CommuniGatePro
Re: communicating via network
On 23/07/2004, at 9:10 AM, gary dorn wrote: is there any way of being able to talk to each other (via the computer) , like a chat room dialogue sort of thing, that is just between us 2 on our home network. like maybe iChat but on a our own home network. any thoughts appreciated I believe ichat has rendezvous built-in for LAN use. If it doesn't, try Proteus: http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/email_chat/proteus.html It does, MSN, ICQ, AIM and Rendezvous chat in the one app HTH Stewart
Re: communicating via network
On 24 Jul 2004, at 3:22pm, Stewart Woods wrote: On 23/07/2004, at 9:10 AM, gary dorn wrote: is there any way of being able to talk to each other (via the computer) , like a chat room dialogue sort of thing, that is just between us 2 on our home network. like maybe iChat but on a our own home network. any thoughts appreciated I believe ichat has rendezvous built-in for LAN use. If it doesn't, try Proteus: http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/email_chat/proteus.html It does, MSN, ICQ, AIM and Rendezvous chat in the one app Stewart, iChat using Rendezvous does it really well, presuming you have OS X. You can text, audio and even video chat. Our kids have discovered this at school, although the Win server blocks audio and video!!. They now know how to setup computer to computer wireless using the airported iBooks to circumvent this little obstacle! Clever little bunnies... Regards Reg
Re: Exporting images from Powerpoint ?
On Sat, 2004-07-24 at 10:57, John Winters wrote: An easy way? Don't be silly, this is an MS product! g The worst thing about OpenOffice (which I referenced in my proposed solution) is how much it tries to be like MS Office, right down to the IMHO awful UI. Try this in Office X Open presentation Choose save as Change format to TIFF (or JPEG or whatever you want) Aah. We interpreted the question two totally different ways. I read it as how do I extract image files embedded in Office documents, so that I can work with them as normal, independent image files. You appear to have read it as how do I save a presentation as a series of images. So the solution you mention (which IMHO I would call reasonably user friendly given the task), while perfectly valid, answers a different question to what I was answering. I'd be interested to hear from the original poster, Sephen Chape, as to whether he's solved the issue. -- Craig Ringer