PNGs vanish from slides when printing

Whenever I print PPT slides (to a real printer or to PDF writer), the
imported PNGs on my slides disappear and do not show up in the print.
Has anyone ever experienced this? Is there a setting in PPT for this?

Hi,

What version of PowerPoint? Have you applied all service packs?
http://www.rdpslides.com/pptfaq/FAQ00079.htm

Glenna

"nhaims" wrote:

> Whenever I print PPT slides (to a real printer or to PDF writer), the
> imported PNGs on my slides disappear and do not show up in the print.
> Has anyone ever experienced this? Is there a setting in PPT for this?
>

In article <65970378.0411161005.58bd5504@posting.google.com >, Nhaims wrote:
> Whenever I print PPT slides (to a real printer or to PDF writer), the
> imported PNGs on my slides disappear and do not show up in the print.
> Has anyone ever experienced this? Is there a setting in PPT for this?

I don't know of any setting specific to this other than the B/W mode, Don't
Show setting, but you'd pretty much have to have applied that deliberately and
if you're making color PDFs it wouldn't affect you there. I doubt that's it.

PPT and some other image editing apps have occasional tiffs (ah, sorry,
couldn't resist) over the way file specs are to be interpeted.

Do you know what program/version created the PNGs?

Try saving them to some other format (BMP for example) and importing those into
PPT in place of the existing PNGs. Does that work better?

Ah, and how'd you bring in the PNGs in the first place? Via Insert, Picture,
From File or otherwise?

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Steve Rindsberg, PPT MVP
PPT FAQ: www.pptfaq.com
PPTools: www.pptools.com
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I am running PPT 2003 and have not installed the last 2 service packs:
they have been causing problems on other computers in my company and I
have no issues that they would ostensibly fix--except maybe this one?

The PNGs were created on a Mac (Photoshop) and inserted the correct
way. The other PNG issue I had previously was when a color profile was
associated with the PNG, it would appear with a black or white box
around it on CERTAIN PCs, although not mine. This was a major snafu
that we discovered in a crisis moment when a presentation was moved
to another computer for playback. I've written up a whole issue paper
on this one if anyone is interested. (The solution is to make sure
that "Don't color manage this document" is set when creating the PNG
on the Mac.)

Service Packs for Windows and Office are different matters. If you are running
PowerPoint 2003 and haven't applied Service Pack 1 for Office (there is only
one), you can expect to have problems like disappearing images. Go to Help >
Check for Updates and follow the links to Check for Updates.
--

Sonia Coleman
Microsoft PowerPoint MVP Team
Autorun Software, Templates and Tutorials

"nhaims" <google@nolanhaims.com> wrote in message
news:65970378.0411170854.1d1360c9@posting.google.c om...
>I am running PPT 2003 and have not installed the last 2 service packs:
> they have been causing problems on other computers in my company and I
> have no issues that they would ostensibly fix--except maybe this one?
>
> The PNGs were created on a Mac (Photoshop) and inserted the correct
> way. The other PNG issue I had previously was when a color profile was
> associated with the PNG, it would appear with a black or white box
> around it on CERTAIN PCs, although not mine. This was a major snafu
> that we discovered in a crisis moment when a presentation was moved
> to another computer for playback. I've written up a whole issue paper
> on this one if anyone is interested. (The solution is to make sure
> that "Don't color manage this document" is set when creating the PNG
> on the Mac.)

In article <65970378.0411170854.1d1360c9@posting.google.com >, Nhaims wrote:
> I am running PPT 2003 and have not installed the last 2 service packs:
> they have been causing problems on other computers in my company and I
> have no issues that they would ostensibly fix--except maybe this one?
>
> The PNGs were created on a Mac (Photoshop) and inserted the correct
> way. The other PNG issue I had previously was when a color profile was
> associated with the PNG, it would appear with a black or white box
> around it on CERTAIN PCs, although not mine. This was a major snafu
> that we discovered in a crisis moment when a presentation was moved
> to another computer for playback. I've written up a whole issue paper
> on this one if anyone is interested. (The solution is to make sure
> that "Don't color manage this document" is set when creating the PNG
> on the Mac.)

Are you free to post the issue paper info here (as a text post rather than as
an attachment)? Or a link to it? I think that'd be interesting and a welcome
addition. Thanks.

As to the SPs, there's only been the one for Office 2003 and as Sonia says,
it's not only benign but pretty much a necessity.


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Steve Rindsberg, PPT MVP
PPT FAQ: www.pptfaq.com
PPTools: www.pptools.com
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