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
    2018-01-20T18:21:33+00:00

    Just to further confirm, in this same PPT I pulled it into previous version of the program, on another computer, did the same Print-to-PDF and it looks great, no issues with images. 

    The fact that another user in this group has same problem, away from our company, and now with the designers in our company, suggests something inherent in the upgrade?

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  2. Anonymous
    2018-01-20T17:57:22+00:00

    Sheen, first, I can't send you images from the presentation, highly confidential. However, several observations:

    First, the effect is random. It doesn't affect all images in the presentation. There can be good images next to bad ones on the same page.

    Second, there is no correlation between images and before/after. E.g., images that were previously in the presentation can be good or bad in the PDF. It can be a very high resolution photo, Photoshop PNG or logo and can be good in the original PPT and bad in the PDF. Can't see a correlation between image file type yet.

    On one page there are screen capture shots off a phone that look great. Next to those is a product image that's more than 1024x768, scaled down here, and looks extremely compressed (blurry). 

    When saying 'compressed,' I don't mean that in the usual term such as when seeing JPG artifacts. The images simply look blurry. Now, it's possible that's through some form of compression, but just an observation that I'm not seeing the usual artifacts.

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  3. Anonymous
    2018-01-20T06:48:24+00:00

    Hi Dpk and Larry,

    Can you provide us with a screenshot of the PDF image side by side between both versions? 

    Please also let us know what image type and resolution you are using.

    Regards,

    Sheen

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