[muglo] Re: Editing and converting Images (Was: PowerPoint

> There is a slight hitch in PowerPoint and that is that (the Windows
> version at least) sometimes compresses BMP files. JPEGs come in as
> compressed images and PowerPoint seems not to be able to handle them
> effectively -- if you manipulate them they baloon in size. The few
> times I used BMPs I managed to retain the high quality of uncompressed
> images but with "smaller" .ppt files (I wonder if it runs BMPs through
> a GIF-style compression).

Of course, my BMP images (maps) were conducive to effective lossless
compression since there were long lines of pixels with the same
colour. The JPEG images (same resolution, 75% quality) resulted in PPT
files at least three of four times as big.

Eric.
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