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Convert and reduce your PowerPoint file

Your new 5-page presentation includes a few pictures and you'd like to send it to a couple of people. But for whatever reason, you'd prefer to send it in pdf. Your presentation weighs 1.8 MB. There are ways to reduce the size of pictures, but it's another issue. PowerPoint 2003 on XP offers you a perfectly working pdf conversion tool right in the menu. Your 2MB ppt file becomes a 545 KB pdf. Not bad. This might change with Office 2008, though.

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Things are different on a Mac, if you use PowerPoint. Keynote offers smarter export flexibility than PowerPoint, but you might prefer staying with PowerPoint. Great. Converting any file into pdf is a bit longer. What to do? You "print" it saving it in pdf. But, o surprise, your PowerPoint file of 1.8 MB is now above 7 MB in pdf! There is a simple turnaround: open your pdf file in Acrobat Professional, go to File>Reduce file size and there you are: 260 KB!

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Posted on Thursday, November 29, 2007 at 10:06AM by Registered CommenterNick Paulus in | CommentsPost a Comment

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