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
    2018-07-06T12:48:46+00:00

    Hi Rasmus, 

    Recently we received some related reports regarding the issue. We apologize for the inconvenience it caused.

    Please kindly check if it matches your scenario:

    Description

    Getting low quality images/texts when exporting to PDF using PowerPoint for Mac even with the highest quality PDF settings.

    Environment

    PowerPoint 2016 for Mac, version 16.14.1.

    Update

    A newly released build of Insider Slow version 16.15 (0701) has the fix.

    The Insider Fast channel version 16.16 (180625) has fixed the issue too.

    If you are unwilling to use pre-beta software (Insider Fast) you can use Insider Slow. Insider Slow delivers the upcoming release a little sooner than waiting for it to come through the regular update.

    If it is your situation, we suggest you monitor this primary thread for the issue to get the latest update:

    PowerPoint export to PDF has tons of formatting issues

    If it is not what you are experiencing, please share the following information with us for troubleshooting:

    1.Your Mac version. (Apple menu>About This Mac)

    2.Some related screenshots about the symptom.

    Regards,

    Tina

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  2. Anonymous
    2018-07-06T12:40:05+00:00

    Hello my name is Yohandi

    It is a pleasure to have your participation in the Microsoft Community

    I suggest you perform a Rollback of the Office applications

    It is possible that this is due to the update of the version of powerpoint that you have installed, as of version 16.xx this incident has been experienced. I recommend you rollback to version 15.xx

    How to go back to Office 2016 for Mac 15.xx versions from 16.xx

    https://support.office.com/en-us/article/how-to...

    if you want to perform the rollback for all Office applications before making the rollback it is advisable to make a backup of the information, here I attach a link with the step by step to be able to make the backup in Outlook for MAC.

    Export items to an archive file in Outlook for Mac

    https://support.office.com/en-us/article/export...

    I wish you an excellent day! ;)

    I hope it works for you

    Let me know if it worked

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  3. Anonymous
    2018-07-06T11:18:48+00:00

    Hi

    I notice after the update all my png image file in powerpoint become blurry when convert to PDF. Now I had to sent the working file to customer... because there is no way around it..

    Please Help, I do power point in daily basis...

    Best regards

    Nicholas Tay

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