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yacht_boy:
Hi all-

I constantly have to send and receive powerpoints, which are often loaded with unnecessarily high resolution images that balloon the size up to many dozens of megabytes.  Today I went digging for a converter and found several, all pretty pricey.  They're best summarized in this list:  http://www.freedownloadmanager.org/downloads/powerpoint_compression_software/

I tried NXPowerLite and liked it, but at $45 for the full version, there's no way I'll ever buy it.  It's a 1.7 mb exe file--it shrinks images and optionally flattens embedded documents and spits out a renamed file about 90% smaller than the original.  If anyone can create a free/donationware version, I'd be forever grateful!  It would also be nice to be able to do the same thing to word docs with pictures to create web-optimized docs.

Thanks!

Jason

lanux128:
here are some reasons why PPT files get so bloated, you may want to try these steps..

• http://www.somacon.com/p133.php
• http://www.tech-recipes.com/rx/1423/powerpoint_compress_and_optimize_presentations_ppt_to_decrease_size

Darwin:
Another excellent resource (at least in my experience) is:

http://pptfaq.com/index.html

see this post in particular for pointers on how to setup first Windows and then Powerpoint for use:

http://pptfaq.com/FAQ00034.htm

yacht_boy:
Thanks both for your responses.  I know that shrinking my pictures can help, and powerpoint's built-in compression tools also help a bit, but what I need is a tool that will work on presentations that are already built with a minimum of fuss.  I do a *lot* of work on other people's powerpoints (unfortunately--maybe I should find a better job) and just want a simple 1 click solution to shrink them down quickly with a minimum of fuss.

Jason

Darwin:
What I do is select any graphic, right click on it and select "Format Picture". I select "Compress" in the resulting dialogue and then Apply to: "All pictures in document" and Change resolution to "Web". The other trick is to create a new empty presentation, copy and paste all of the slides from the existing presentation and paste them into the new one and then save with a different file name. This only helps if your client has the Fast Save option selected (it's on by default). Don't know if that will help that much or not. Beyond that, I'm not aware of a ppt one-click shrinker.

Sounds like a good candidate for a coding snack, so you've come to the right place!

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