Here I am again, hoping to find another oddball utility – too much time on my hands, I guess. Retirement can do that to you …
Several friends are in the habit of sending me interesting collections of photos in PowerPoint slide-show format, probably because file size seems much smaller – two dozen or so excellent quality full-screen pix will typically total around 3/4 megs even with an audio track. I don’t have Office as such on my system, and installed just the PP Viewer to handle those.
Occasionally I’d like to save some of those photos rather than the whole PPS. Is there any convenient way to extract individual images from a PPS file and convert them to a “standard” format such as JPG? I assume saving a screenshot would work if I’m using the standard PP viewer, but that would mean going through the entire (possibly lengthy) slide-show if it’s one near the end. Any other ways to do this?
I don’t really know what the file type/format is for powerpoint images but IrfanView has one of the best file conversion rates of many image editor/converters around. I don’t think it is able to extract images from within a powerpoint file though.
Can you not right click on the image and select copy, that would allow you to past it into IrfanView or another image editor. I haven’t got powerpoint or the viewer on this system.
Thanks, David, this one looks like I bit off more than I can chew. But what else is new, right?
That individual one from sourceforge does indeed look good, but alas is only available for Unix-like systems (in executable form, anyway, they do have source code in C for Windows and others).
About three or four items down on the Google-hits link there was another one that looked interesting, a zip from softpedia. But that one saves all images and audio from a PPS, without letting you select individual ones. Plus its readme indicated that in the case where there’s more than one size-format for a given image (similar to photo-CD, I guess), only the smallest will be saved.
The readme referred to another app from the same author for saving larger versions of the images (also freeware), but that one requires that all of PowerPoint already be installed.
So the heck with it, looks like good old copy-and-paste is a lot simpler than any “shortcuts”. And that’s pretty much what you’d suggested and more or less what I’d already guessed. But thanks again for trying – educational for both of us, if nothing else.
I surprised at the sourceforge one though I would have been for a windows application powerpoint it would have a neat GUI and not a command line interface.
Good idea Bob, it shouldn’t lose much in the capture.
I use Snagit for my images on the forums and although it is a paid option it is very quick and relatively easy to use. There are however, some freeware ones, probably on Bob’s MySharedFiles link ;D