help! powerpoint bmp decompressor missing

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Don Hurst

We are displaying a powerpoint presentation developed on
the MAC in Windows/Office 2000 are encountering problems
with the graphics. The frames indicate that QuickTime is
needed(that is no problem).

The problem is that a bmp decompressor is needed per
Powerpoint. How do I correct this problem and is there a
Microsoft equivalent of the bmp decompressor?

Any help would greatly be appreciated...THANKS!
 
Can you give us the exact error message you are seeing?

Austin Myers
MS PowerPoint MVP Team
 
The exact message says " QuickTime(tm) and a BMP
decompressor are needed to see this picture"

Any help on this would greatly be appreciated!

Thanks,

Don
 
Don, I'm not a Mac user so I'm taking a SWAG here in that it's not a
standard Windows BMP. Can you open the BMP with another Windows app.

Austin Myers
MS PowerPoint MVP Team
 
If I'm not mistaken, this indicates that the Mac creator saved the
presentation (or images) with QuickTime compression turned on. There
should be a prompt of some sort when saving that says something about
saving the JPGs with QT compression. Just say no.
 
I am experiencing a similar issue. I own Powerpoint X at
home and Powerpoint 2002 on XP at work. However, my
error says "Quicktime(tm) and a TIFF decompressor are
needed to see this picture" when pulled into Powerpoint
2002.

I use my PC (which is portable), and a memory stick to
present to numerous different groups. Now, several
times, I have had to scrap the graphics of the
presentation on the fly and ad-hoc a new one once the
presentation is not able to be used.

This issue is specifically not addressed on the knowledge
base. however, I've paid a lot of money to have the two
softwares, now only to have them not work together on a
simple task like picture pasting!

Any help would be appreciated. (please email me in
addition to the news post)

Eric
 
Here's an answer from the PowerPoint FAQ at http://www.rdpslides.com/pptfaq/

Problem
You open a presentation created on a Mac in a Windows version of PowerPoint
and get a message similar to this:

QuickTime(TM) and a Photo - JPEG decompressor are needed to see this
picture.

(It might mention TIFF or some other decompressor instead)

Solution
PPT2000: QuickTime PICT Placeholder Appears in Place of Graphic at
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;198204&Product=ppt


The problem, in a nutshell, is that PowerPoint/Windows doesn't support
QuickTime compression.
To solve the problem, you'll need to re-save then re-insert the graphic into
PowerPoint on the Mac.

Open the original graphic in the program that created it
Choose File, Save As
Select No Compression in the save options
Switch to PowerPoint, choose Insert, Picture, From File and choose the newly
saved picture.

These instructions are very generic. The menu options for your graphics
program will be different; you'll probably need to do some experimenting to
find the right set of options.

We'd like to hear about it in the PowerPoint newsgroup (Mac or PC) if you
come up with a good recipe that you'd like to have posted here.

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