ICC color profile and Powerpoint 2000

[anonymous]

Whenever I insert a picture actually a jpeg into Powerpoint
2000, the colors are really messed up if it has the ICC
color profile tag on the file. But if I take the jpeg into
Adobe Photoshop and resave it without the ICC color
profile, the inserted image looks okay. I don't want to
have to drag all of the images into Adobe to remove the ICC
tag. Is there another work around for this?

Our Powerpoint 2000 is at service pack 3 and doesn't
require any further updates.

Can anyone suggest a fix for this besides upgrading to
OfficeXP?

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

Whenever I insert a picture actually a jpeg into Powerpoint
2000, the colors are really messed up if it has the ICC
color profile tag on the file. But if I take the jpeg into
Adobe Photoshop and resave it without the ICC color
profile, the inserted image looks okay. I don't want to
have to drag all of the images into Adobe to remove the ICC
tag. Is there another work around for this?

How about this:

Use IrfanView (free at www.irfanview.com) to batch convert all the images to
BMP, which'll lose the ICC profile, since bmp doesn't support that).

Then if you like, convert back to JPG, lossless compression.