pasting special as JPGs

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The quality setting for "pasting special as JPGs" is terrible. Is there a
preference setting somewhere?

PP (Office 2000)

tia shAf :o)
 
The quality setting for "pasting special as JPGs" is terrible. Is there a
preference setting somewhere?
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No, but where is the image on the clipboard coming from in the first place?

Some applications put only a low resolution image on the clipboard when you
choose Copy.

What do you get when you paste the same image into, say, Photoshop?
 
"Steve Rindsberg" (MVP) writes ...
No, but where is the image on the clipboard coming from in the first
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place?

It came from a JPEG file, saved from Photoshop. My impression is that PP
saves the entire bitmap within the PPT file, UNLESS I first adjust its size
just the way I want it, then 'cut' the image, and then 'paste special as
JPEG'. The PPT file is then much smaller, but the JPEG "lossy" artifacts
are so obvious and distracting.
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What do you get when you paste the same image into, say, Photoshop?
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It will paste the entire bitmap, including JPEG artifacts ... i.e., a 1k x
1k RGB image will show 3Mb memory used in spite of the size of the PPT file
or a saved JPEG.

My guess at the quality setting for PP "pasted special JPEGs" must be near
3/10(?) 7/10 would be good :o)

tia ... shAf :o)
 
Please try using Photoshop's "Save for Web" function and save it as a PNG
file. Then in PowerPoint use Insert > Picture > Picture from File. You'll
be much happier with the results.
 
"Steve Rindsberg" (MVP) writes ...

place?

It came from a JPEG file, saved from Photoshop.
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OK, but how did it get on the clipboard so you could paste it into PowerPoint?
Sorry, I realize I didn't ask that very clearly.
My impression is that PP
saves the entire bitmap within the PPT file, UNLESS I first adjust its size
just the way I want it, then 'cut' the image, and then 'paste special as
JPEG'.
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That's correct.
The PPT file is then much smaller, but the JPEG "lossy" artifacts
are so obvious and distracting.
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I'm not sure whether this is a matter of JPG artifacts or another aspect of the
way PPT works:

When you copy a bitmap from within PPT, you get several versions of the image
on the clipboard. If you paste from there into most applications, or choose
Paste Special, As JPG (or other bitmap format), you get the image *as PPT was
displaying it on screen* at the time it was copied.

In other words, if your gorgeous 1024x768 image was reduced on the slide to
24x20 pixels on the screen, a 24x20 pixel image is what you get on the
clipboard. Now if you take that image AND run it through JPG compression again
(considering it's already been JPG compressed once to start with), you get a
real mess.

So much for the explanation of why.

What are you trying to accomplish? There are probably other ways there.
 
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