[KLUG Members] Power Point Peculiarity

[Eric Beversluis]

Very interesting: If you try to use OO.o's Impress open a Power Point
presentation created by Power Point for Mac 2004, some of the slides may
only appear as a black hole on your screen. Windows PPt users are only a
little more lucky, since they get this error message:

       QuickTime and a TIFF (LZW) decompressor are needed to see this
picture.

It turns out the culprit is the way Power Point for Mac 2004 treats
images that are cut and pasted from pdf files.

The only solution seems to be to go back to the original (once the
images have been verwandelt by PPt for Mac, they don't seem to be
redeemable) and recapture the image. Then open the image in a photo
editor and save as an image (e.g., tiff) with no compression. Then
import that saved image into the Power Point presentation. 

My wife and I spent several hours today figuring this out and redoing
about 10 such slides--did you ever try to relocate the source of
something when you thought you were done with it?  (Even when you've
kept the reference--as you should--it can take a fair bit of time, not
to mention the actual work of redoing the slides.)

EB