Re: Exporting images from Powerpoint ?

2004-07-24 Thread John Winters
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
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 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.
 
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Re: communicating via network

2004-07-24 Thread Stewart Woods


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

2004-07-24 Thread Reg Whitely


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 ?

2004-07-24 Thread Craig Ringer
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.

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Craig Ringer