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Reduce the disk space used by PowerPoint files
Authored by: bpartridge on Jun 16, '07 10:45:29AM

I've been using this tip for a long time. Drag-and-dropped images coming from Safari are embedded in a format that is unreadable by some Windows computers without QuickTime installed. This fixes the problem.

@neuralstatic:
By default, inserting the image in this way embeds the image as bitmap data. If you want to link to the image (your "sucky outcome"), check Link to File.

Note that embedding the image as bitmap data if it's a compressed file like JPEG can increase the size of your PPT file considerably. You can get the best of both worlds by checking both Link to File and Save with Document; this embeds the image, but in the original file format, not bitmap.

Hope this helps



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