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
    2018-06-14T12:37:55+00:00

    I am running into this as well, and have sent feedback from within PowerPoint.

    I have been saving the same PowerPoint files to PDF for years without issue, and now I'm seeing three issues in the PDF files:

    1. Text that is formatted as "Underline" has a much, much thicker underline.
    2. Line shapes with default thickness of 0.75 pt in PowerPoint are appearing with a thickness of around 5 pt in the PDF.
    3. An inserted and resized image is appearing blurry in the PDF.

    Here's an example of one of my PowerPoint files:

    And here's how it looks when I save or export as PDF:

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  2. Anonymous
    2018-06-14T13:00:24+00:00

    We have the same thing and we all ran the next update this morning.  Attached is a screenshot of what our file should look like (and does look like before we export) and how it looks after export.  This isn't acceptable, as most of our marketing files are in powerpoint!

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  3. Anonymous
    2018-06-14T13:09:15+00:00

    I'm having the exact same issue, and so are my co-workers using Macintosh in our office.  We all started experiencing this yesterday after the update.  This morning was another update and we are still experiencing the same issues.

    Example below.  Left is what it looks like in PP, right is after it's exported to a PDF and we use Acrobat PDF viewer. Also, all of our macs are currently updated on all system software (macOS High Sierra V 10.13.5)

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