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I need help to find out Settings used to generate PDF shared to me when author when authors lack skill to provide and, restricted by policy, allow access computer of source document?
I am trying to examine the attribute of this Shape which is causing PowerPoint to close pre-maturely. Since PowerPoint has limited capability to show its attribute, I have tried saving it to a image file which does not show any problem. Then, I tried Export this PowerPoint to PDF, then use Adobe Export to Image.
Am I wrong to assume that the image in my PDF is exact replicate from the PowerPoint Slide it came from? If so, then I stop using Adobe Export to Image.. Is it possible resolution from PDFMaker is different from PowerPoint ?
The two images from PDFMaker is a Title and Excel Chart pasted to PowerPoint Slide; 33cm wide 2.82cm high; 28.83cm wide 16.39 cm high. Why would such a typical slide create this problem?
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Hi @Sunny26326757tb7e ,
Can you share a screenshot and elaborate more in what exactly are you trying accomplish?
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I have a PowerPoint Shape which close PowerPoint pre-maturely. Replacing it with either Paste or Saved-to-file resolve the problem.
I suspect either one of the following causing Pasted Propery to change:
How to compare above? VBA does not show above information. The shape is an embedded picture, Type is # 13, msoPicture
non-programming methods tried
Workaround which is not solving real problem
specific file crash Media cause crash all files crash MS recommendations Another case which is for all files PowerPoint crashes when you use media in your files - Microsoft Support Powerpoint crashes on specific file for unclear reason - Microsoft Community
For PowerPoint: • Review Tips for improving the performance of your presentation • Change resolution to improve speed • Make sure hardware graphics acceleration is not disabled • Compress media files • Reduce the number of transitions and complex animation • Don’t use large gradients or transparent objects
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Hi,
I am still unclear what do you mean by a "shape".
Your last reply is also all over the place with unnecessary excess feedback, which makes it really hard to help you.
If you are referring to one of the built-in geometric shapes that are shipped with Microsoft Power Point, it is indeed a weird behavior.
But from the way you've described the issue, it looks more to me as an polygon image slide that was produced with multiple layers.
In which case, and let's assume for example, that this is a SHP file (also referred to as a shape file), that was produced with software that is specialized in producing maps, then the crashing behavior in MS PowerPoint would make sense to me.
SHP files are composed of many other embedded elements, like database tables and referencing data, in addition to image layers that may consist of different compressed image file formats or very large compressed file sizes.
If that were the case, Microsoft Power Point is not the appropriate software to handle that type of file, which may explain why saving to an image file (like jpeg or PNG file format) seems to work, because otherwise, this process would eliminate all other data and just produce one image (norhing more).
Now, the same would also be true with embedded media files (as you mentioned).
And if that file is a media file(which may contain many multi-media elements, like sound files or video files formats on it) then that also may be causing the crash.
However, from reading your post you have to many things going on and not explained in a brief and clear manner.
The dimesnions of the output image that you are trying to import/export is not handled through the methods that you are currently using, and for simplicity, when you are exporting to a PDF document, the dimensions of a page shouldn't be expressed in centimeters.
This is handled by first setting up a custom printing profile for a page with those dimensions in inchess (which is preferavly done through the operating system's Print Server settings for better results).
And then execute the printing to PDF action using the Adobe PDF as the virtual printing device.
Using this method will produce a PDF document with the desired height and width page size.