Powerpoint 16.15 (180530) Save as PDF - images are blurry

Anonymous
2018-06-04T22:02:56+00:00

Even when PDF export quality is set to high - the images on the PPT are blurry when using PDF export.  The images are fine in the PPT itself.

Microsoft 365 Insider | PowerPoint | MacOS
Microsoft 365 Insider | PowerPoint | MacOS

A family of Microsoft presentation graphics products that offer tools for creating presentations and adding graphic effects like multimedia objects and special effects with text.

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John Korchok 235.9K Reputation points Volunteer Moderator
2018-07-10T13:03:06+00:00

Choose Help>Check for Updates and in that dialog, check Join the Office Insider program to get early access to new releases. Then choose Office Insider Slow for fairly well-tested code or Office Insider Fast for advanced features with more bugs. Don't choose the latter on a computer you use to get work done.

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Anonymous
2018-07-07T06:25:42+00:00

We sincerely apologize for the experience you had, due to the recent regression! 

This issue has been fixed in Insider Slow channel since build 16.15 (180701) and in Insider Fast channel since build 16.16 (180702), and it should reach the rest of our users soon. Please update your builds and let us know if the problem is not fully resolved.

Again, thank you for helping us improve our product!

Thanks!

Lishan

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  1. Anonymous
    2018-01-25T15:37:31+00:00

    Hi, 

    I'm trying to print PDF files from Powerpoint but the PDF files produced are now very large (~60 MB).  I printed the same PPTX files about 2 weeks ago (that is early jan 2018) and the PDF file was about 2 MB.  This is very strange since I only modified a single text line in the PPTX.

    My Powerpoint version now is 16.9 (180116)

    I'm a teacher and I need to upload these PDF files to the student website.  I can no longer do it because the files are now too large.  Anyone knows why this happens?  I can it be fixed?

    Thanks.

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  2. Anonymous
    2018-01-25T07:34:14+00:00

    Hi All,

    Thanks for reporting the issue to us.

    I'd like to make a summary here, so that everyone who comes across this thread will easily find the useful information.

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    Issue description:

    After updating to Office for Mac 16.9, images become blurry when exported to PDF from PowerPoint.

    Workaround:

    The issue happens to version 16.9 Original version 15.41 has no issue. You may consider installing Office 2016 for Mac 15.41 as a temporary workaround.

    More information:

    We have reported the issue to our related team for further investigation. We will update this thread when an update is available.

    ====================

    Regards,

    Ran

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  3. Anonymous
    2018-01-24T22:34:01+00:00

    Thank you!! Saved me a huge amount of time -  @microsoft, it would be a really good idea to to keep the the high fidelity (maximum ppi) and HD (330 ppi) image compression options in your future upgrades. I note that 16.9 only allowed up to 220 ppi.

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