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MS Office Forum / General PowerPoint Questions / January 2007Exporting EMF graphics from PP
We are experiencing problems exporting EMF graphics from PowerPoint. Our current process is to export as WMF, however we have received requests to use EMF instead. What we are finding is that a graphic that is exported as WMF is 624 x 354 Pixels while the same graphic exported as EMF is 3900 x 2212 Pixels. In many cases we are not actually exporting the graphics, but rather copy and pasting them into Word documents where the graphics are extracted and converted to GIF for html. The increase in size makes them unusable and so we are presently limiting our users to WMF. Any ideas? Thanks, Marc Wiener Gartner, Inc. If you use a right-click and Save as Picture instead of pasting into Word, does that do any better? What kind of graphics are you doing this with? Are they just autoshapes?  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/ > We are experiencing problems exporting EMF graphics from PowerPoint. > Our current process is to export as WMF, however we have received [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] > Marc Wiener > Gartner, Inc. For the most part they are pie charts, bar graphs etc. If you right click and save you get the same result. Marc > If you use a right-click and Save as Picture instead of pasting into Word, > does that do any better? [quoted text clipped - 20 lines] > > Marc Wiener > > Gartner, Inc. > We are experiencing problems exporting EMF graphics from PowerPoint. > Our current process is to export as WMF, however we have received > requests to use EMF instead. What we are finding is that a graphic that > is exported as WMF is 624 x 354 Pixels while the same graphic exported > as EMF is 3900 x 2212 Pixels. In truth, neither is true. EMF and WMF graphics don't have any size in pixels. They're by and large "vector" graphics, meaning that nearly everything in them is composed of mathematically described shapes, not rows of dots. What program are you importing these WMF/EMFs into? I'm guessing that it treats them differently (converts them into dots and differnt default dpi settings). > In many cases we are not actually > exporting the graphics, but rather copy and pasting them into Word > documents where the graphics are extracted and converted to GIF for > html. The increase in size makes them unusable and so we are presently > limiting our users to WMF. Any ideas? With that many steps involved, it's hard to say where to point the finger of blame. If the goal is to make a GIF, why not do that directly from PowerPoint? ----------------------------------------- Steve Rindsberg, PPT MVP PPT FAQ: www.pptfaq.com PPTools: www.pptools.com ================================================ We're taking them out of PP and pasting or inserting them into Word. The Word file is used to create XML and the graphics are also extracted from the Word doc. Depending on our outputs we either use the original (for PDF) or convert them to GIF (html). Over the years we've found that the best results come from pasting as WMF. I am aware that these are vector based formats, but do not know why the graphic appears to be sized properly in an Office App, but is much larger when viewed with a graphics viewer or by just dragging into IE. Thanks, Marc > > We are experiencing problems exporting EMF graphics from PowerPoint. > > Our current process is to export as WMF, however we have received [quoted text clipped - 24 lines] > PPTools: www.pptools.com > ================================================ Marc, Steve Rindsberg is the man to discuss this with in great detail. You already have my email address from Kathleen. Drop me a note and Steve and I can set up a conference call to discuss in more detail. Brian Reilly, MVP >We're taking them out of PP and pasting or inserting them into Word. >The Word file is used to create XML and the graphics are also extracted [quoted text clipped - 39 lines] >> PPTools: www.pptools.com >> ================================================ > We're taking them out of PP and pasting or inserting them into Word. > The Word file is used to create XML and the graphics are also extracted [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > much larger when viewed with a graphics viewer or by just dragging into > IE. WMFs/EMFs? I wouldn't worry too much about what they look like in viewers/IE; you won't be using them on your web pages anyhow, I wouldn't think. WMFs may or may not have sizing instructions in the file format; as exported from PowerPoint, they do, but may not in other cases. > Thanks, > [quoted text clipped - 28 lines] > > PPTools: www.pptools.com > > ================================================ ----------------------------------------- Steve Rindsberg, PPT MVP PPT FAQ: www.pptfaq.com PPTools: www.pptools.com ================================================ |
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