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
    2018-06-29T21:02:56+00:00

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  2. Anonymous
    2018-06-29T20:32:33+00:00

    We've run into this problem before, our immediate relief is to open the decks in Keynote and use it to generate the PDFs. It's far from ideal but, in the essence of doing our work, necessary. Hopefully there will be a fix soon.

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  3. Anonymous
    2018-06-29T20:19:01+00:00

    Hi Everyone,

    Thank you for keeping us updated on the situation. We previously received feedback regarding PDF outputs being either too large/too small (too low quality).

    To resolve this, we introduced an Export to PDF option for quality selection. PDF options can be accessed through Settings > General > Print Quality (Paper/PDF). You can choose between High, Medium, or Low image quality. For print, we recommend using high quality; for export to PDF, we recommend using low or medium quality (depending on your optimal file size).

    For your reference:

    Export to PDF options

    Save PowerPoint presentations as PDF files

    If you would like to control the size of your PDF, we suggest trying to set the quality to Medium. We have just tested this on a brand new PowerPoint file on version 16.16 and got a PDF output of 5MB from a 4.9MB PowerPoint file.

    Let us know the result of the output on your end.

    Regards,

    Sheen

    Thank you Sheen.

    When you think of it, does it sound right that PDF output from a PowerPoint file is larger than the original?

    I have an rather large PowerPoint file (138MB) with lots of graphics, embedded videos and images and I just tested the different settings you mentioned. The PDF sizes for different qualities being 51MB for low, 54MB for medium and 86MB for high quality. Office online creates a good quality PDF of 4MB of the same file.

    The quality setting does indeed make a difference though, for pictures with text the quality reduction from high makes the texts immediately unreadable. Unfortunately I cannot attach sample PDFs as image attachments here.

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