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
    2018-06-01T12:35:52+00:00

    My PowerPoint (v16.15 (180528), Office 365, Mac OS 10.13.4 High Sierra) prints THICK lines and arrows and lines of all shapes, and I cannot change the thickness. The lines are ~5mm thick, no matter what setting. This is on ALL printers I tested and also in the PDF files.

    A colleague printing the same (mine) file, in PowerPoint 16.13, does NOT have this problem. -> version related?

    Any suggestion?

    Is there a fix?

    How do I go back to a previous PPT version?

    Thanks

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  2. Anonymous
    2018-06-01T01:38:24+00:00

    I never had this problem until this latest release on Office Insider Fast. When I do 'Save As' PDF, the .PDF output file contains incredibly low quality (images fuzzy, fine lines drawn in powerpoint are 'thicker', underline of text becomes thicker), fonts are not rendering correctly, etc. Any thoughts on what is happening? I am running MacOS High Sierra, version 10.13.4 and Powerpoint 16.15 (180528)

    I sent the same powerpoint over to a colleague running a lower version of Powerpoint 15.x and her output looks razor sharp and the fonts are rendering correctly (the same as they appear in powerpoint).

    Any thoughts on what I should do?

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  3. Anonymous
    2018-05-24T12:41:40+00:00

    Hi All,

    As I mentioned above, I have involved the related team for the issue and we are investigating this issue activtely. I will let you know the updated information as soon as soon as possible once I get one.

    We appreciate your patience.

    Regards,

    Yoga

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