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It would be interesting to do a comparison of NXPowerlite and the
feature already in PowerPoint, (I know at least 2003).
1. Right-Click a graphic on a slide.
2. Click Format Picture
3. Click Compress
You can choose to do just the selected picture, or all pictures. If
the purpose of the presentation is for screen presentation, selecting
Web/Screen can significantly reduce the size of the file. Also, if
they have cropped a lot of pictures, this option removes the cropped
area, again yielding a smaller size.
Depending on how the pictures are imported, this can yield pretty
stunning results in shrinking PowerPoint files, and it's already in
the program.
On 1/5/06, Dan Goldstein <DGoldstein -at- riverainmedical -dot- com> wrote:
> For PowerPoint, I downloaded a trial version of a program called
> NXPowerLite (www.nxpowerlite.com), which was highly recommended by
> Lockergnome. NXPowerLite optimizes PPT files according to how you intend
> to use them. The free trial version is fully functional, but can be used
> only 10 times before you have to purchase ($45.00).
>
> Someone had sent me a file that clocked in at about 7.3 MB. Using
> NXPowerLite, I created a high-resolution version good for printing,
> which came out to only 788 KB. I also created a lower-resolution version
> that's good for projecting on a screen, which came out to only 307 KB!
>
> Never needed NXPowerLite enough to buy it, but those are pretty good
> numbers.
>
> -- Dan Goldstein
>
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