PowerPoint File size and and missing pictures

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Patrick Ford

Greetings:

I want to read a PPT presentation from a CD into PowerPoint for Mac OS
X. On the CD, the file size is about 7,150K. The directory is not seen
when I put the disk into the DC tray Under Mac OS X. I can read the CD
when I run VPC 6 Windows XP Home ed. on the same machine and then copy
the file to the hard drive.

When I attempt to open it in under Mac OS X, none of the pictures are
in the presentation! (This is also the case with OpenOffice.)

On a computer at work, I can open the presentation and see all the
pictures. When I save the file as a Presentation .ppt format it is
5,738K, consistent with a block size difference. When I save it as a
PowerPoint 97-2000 & 95 Presentation it is 126,838K, in the same
directory!

(1) Why the huge file size difference?
(2) Why are the images lost when I open it with PowerPoint for Mac OS
X?

Thanks

Patrick Ford
 
I want to read a PPT presentation from a CD into PowerPoint for Mac OS
X. On the CD, the file size is about 7,150K. The directory is not seen
when I put the disk into the DC tray Under Mac OS X.
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What about other CDs you burn on the same PC? Other PC-formatted CDs in
general? It sounds as though there's a problem with the way the CD was
burned.
Was the CD finalized, closed or whatever your CD burning software calls it?
Did you use the CD software's drag and drop feature? That might be the
problem.
When I attempt to open it in under Mac OS X, none of the pictures are
in the presentation! (This is also the case with OpenOffice.)
Click to expand...

What was the source of the pictures to begin with?
On a computer at work, I can open the presentation and see all the
pictures. When I save the file as a Presentation .ppt format it is
5,738K, consistent with a block size difference. When I save it as a
PowerPoint 97-2000 & 95 Presentation it is 126,838K, in the same
directory!

(1) Why the huge file size difference?
Click to expand...

Because that's a format that includes the entire presentation in both PPT
97-2000 format AND 95 format; 95 didn't support compressed images, so of
necessity, the 95-format part of the file contains uncompressed versions of
all your images.
 
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