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
    2018-01-29T18:13:13+00:00

    Hi Zixuan,

    1. Do you mean you choose File>Export to export the presentation as a pdf file?

    A: no, I go to  File>Print>PDF dropdown>Save as PDF.

    1. Please let us know the size of that presentation.

    A: The presentation size is 2.1 MB. It is a pptx file.

    1. Please confirm whether this behavior occurs with all the presentations. You may create a new file to test.

    A: Yes it occurs with all presentation. As an example, I printed different presentation.  The pptx is 3.1 MB.  The pdf I produced on Jan 8, 2018, 13:11 is 324Kb.  The pdf I produced today is 1.2 Mb.  There was no changes made to the presentation.  Although the problem is not that severe in this case, the size of pdf produced are consistently bigger (5x to 30x)

    1. Is there any special content in that presentation like pictures or video?

    A: no videos, but several pictures, mostly graphics. Few ppt animations to make images or bullets appear.

    5: Please provide your OS version as well.

    macOS High Sierra version 10.13.2 Supplemental installed.

    Thank you, 

    Vincent

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  2. Anonymous
    2018-01-29T17:56:07+00:00

    Hi All - really annoying this. One workaround I found whilst we await this to be fixed - open the pres in Google Sheets then save as PDF from there - it will export with decent image quality and seems to be a good job of loading the PPT.

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  3. Anonymous
    2018-01-28T11:50:49+00:00

    Hi Vincent,

    Could you post back with the above information at your convenience?

    Regards,

    Zixuan

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