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MS Office Forum / General PowerPoint Questions / August 2006A different file size problem - 1552% size increase
I have read the threads on Fast Save but I have a problem of much bigger magnitude. I have a file that I received from somebody else which is 281 Kb. If I open it and then immediately save it, without even making any changes, it is now of size 4,361 Kb. My Tools/Options/Save setting is Powerpoint Presentation and I am using PowerPoint 2000 and am just saving it, not doing a Save As to change the version. On a related note, is there a way to find out what version of PowerPoint was used to create a file? I couldn't find it in Properties. Any help would be much appreciated by my hard drive.  SignatureTim the Teacher (Math and Java Programming) Well here I am replying to my own post... On http://www.rdpslides.com/pptfaq/FAQ00062.htm I found that it was the embedded fonts that were causing the size problem. I quote... If you use PowerPoint 2000, choose File, Save As, click Tools and remove the check mark next to Embed TrueType Fonts. Then give your presentation a new name and click Save. SignatureTim the Teacher (Math and Java Programming) > I have read the threads on Fast Save but I have a problem of much bigger > magnitude. I have a file that I received from somebody else which is 281 Kb. [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] > > Any help would be much appreciated by my hard drive. Actually replying to yourself is very useful! No one else can see the problem as you can and the answer helps everybody! Signature_____________________________ John Wilson Microsoft Certified Office Specialist http://www.technologytrish.co.uk/ppttipshome.html > Well here I am replying to my own post... > [quoted text clipped - 18 lines] > > > > Any help would be much appreciated by my hard drive. As yet another reply to myself, I found that when I came to work and opened in PPT 2002 the bloated PPT 2000 file which I had FTP'ed from home and then saved it again it was reduced to the original size. So the problem WAS with embedded fonts in PPT 2000 and appears to have been corrected by the Save option "Embed characters in use only" in PPT 2002 SignatureTim the Teacher (Math and Java Programming) > Actually replying to yourself is very useful! No one else can see the problem > as you can and the answer helps everybody! [quoted text clipped - 21 lines] > > > > > > Any help would be much appreciated by my hard drive. Nice detective work, Teacher Tim. Thanks for following up -- I'm sure this will help someone else in future. SignatureEcho [MS PPT MVP] http://www.echosvoice.com What's new in PPT 2007? http://www.echosvoice.com/2007.htm Fixing PowerPoint Annoyances http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/powerpointannoy/ PPTLive! Sept 17-20, 2006 http://www.pptlive.com > As yet another reply to myself, I found that when I came to work and > opened [quoted text clipped - 40 lines] >> > > >> > > Any help would be much appreciated by my hard drive. |
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