Graphic images skewed when published

Jul 10, 2012

Jane Stemkoski
By Jane Stemkoski

I recently updated to Office 2010 and I think...think, it affected something with my PPT files. For a course that has worked for many months, when I went to make a few title changes, the graphic images are now skewed quite a bit. Images, Engage content, etc isn't, only graphics.

 The image on the left is how it looks in PPT, and when presented. The image on the right shows how the images are stretched when published.  This only seems to happen with these files.  Any help, insight or suggestions would be greatly appreciated!

5 Replies
Jane Stemkoski
almost 12 years ago07/10/12 at 1:30 pm (UTC)

Thanks Peter!

I have been using Articulate for years, first time ever had an issue.

I created the files in Office 97, moved to 2010. After working with the files for a while, it seems to only be affecting graphics I made in Corel Draw and imported into PPT. A workaround I have found is that I can go into the PPT file, save the image that is getting skewed as a png, delete it from PPT then re-insert it and it works. But, I have hundreds of slides with a lot of graphics and this could take a long time. I am hoping for another solution.

Thanks for any help!

Jane

Peter Anderson
almost 12 years ago07/10/12 at 1:40 pm (UTC)

Hi Jane,

Thanks for the info Unfortunately, your best option is probably going to be the process you mentioned of saving the images as PNGs and then re-inserting, but it might be worth your while to send your files to our support team to see if there's anything they can do to help. Please create an Articulate Presenter package, then upload the zip file to our server. You can review how to do this here: 

 

Send to Articulate Presenter Package – Articulate Presenter ’09 Help

 

Upload the resulting zip file from your computer to our server using this upload form: 

 

Articulate Support - Upload Your Files for Review 

 

Thanks!

Tom Kuhlmann
almost 12 years ago07/13/12 at 12:43 pm (UTC)

This may help a little with exporting the images.

7zip is a free program that you can use to extract the .pptx files. It will unzip the ppt file and inside the folder you'll find a media folder with all of the media files in one location.

You can use a batch converter to convert the images from one format to .png. This at least speeds up part of the process. Then go into PPT and right click on the image and do a change image.  I use imagetuner for batch conversions. But many of the image programs can do batch conversions.

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