• You can save the slides as images in PNG, TIFF or JPG. In the top menu select “File” “Export to” “Images” Select the required format in a pop-up window and specify the range of slides that you want to save as images. If you want to save all the slides, check the point “ALL”.
• When using Office 365's version of PowerPoint on a Mac, you can set the size of the image file by typing in the image size - say 1920x1080 - in the export menu window. Do that and you're golden. 'I don't see an Office folder under Microsoft when I'm looking at my Registry Editor. What do I do now?'
• In PowerPoint 2000 go to the Acrobat PDF tab and select Change Conversion Settings (Fig. In PowerPoint 2007 go to the Acrobat tab and select Preferences (Fig. In the PDF Maker Settings window (Fig. 7) that will appear select ‘PDFX3 2002’ in the Conversions Settings drop-down menu. Also tick the box ‘View.

Select the slide you want to save as JPEGs from your presentation. Click the 'Picture Tools' option from the menu and click 'Compress Pictures.' The choices in the middle section of the dialog box affect the resolution. Click to place the radial button next to 'Print' to set the dots per inch - or dpi - at 200. In the Value data box, type your desired resolution value: 300, then click Decimal (the value will change to 768), and then click OK. Exit the Registry Editor. Saving a high resolution image in PowerPoint To save an image, you simply export a PowerPoint slide as a picture. Have the slide that you want to export open. Select Save As from the.

PDF (Portable Document Format) files are (in many respects) perfect for exchanging documents that don’t need to be changed after the fact. Hence, often it makes sense to export PDF files from Microsoft Office (e.g. Word or PowerPoint) in order to make them available for others. Just think of presentation slides or handouts that you want to put online.

Unfortunately, the default settings of Microsoft Office (as far as I know in all versions) produce rather unimpressive results when it comes to images. The following example shows exported PDF versions of a cat photograph with various settings.

The top left image is a screenshot directly from PowerPoint 2016. On the top right, we can see a PDF export from PowerPoint with default settings. As you can see, this is rather terrible. Often, especially with smaller logos or background images, the compression artifacts are hard to spot on first glance. However, once you’ve spotted them, they really spoil an otherwise beautiful PDF export. The bottom left and right examples are exports from PowerPoint 2016 (print settings) and Adobe Acrobat DC respectively.

If file size (high fidelity PDFs are much larger) is not really an issue for you, it seems reasonable to just change the defaults setting in PowerPoint and Word. This can be done in the Officeoptions menu. Unfortunately, you have to do this for all Office products individually. In the following example, I have changed the default resolution to ‘High fidelity’ - the highest setting available. This alone will drastically improve the quality of your PDF files. If you choose to select ‘Do not compress image files,’ Office will ignore the ‘default resolution’ and just use the original image file’s resolution.

Adobe Acrobat (DC) Pro

However, while both the print version and the Adobe version look fine, Adobe Acrobat handles such things as transparency much better¹. If you are working with complex images, transparent images, or extremely large files, Adobe Acrobat (DC) is generally advisable - despite its high cost. In this regard it is important to note that the newer versions of Microsoft Office, such as 2016, are only really compatible with the DC version of Acrobat, not X or XI.

If you are using Acrobat Pro (or rather Adobe PDFMaker) , make sure to also change its default setting to a higher resolution (in this case ‘High Quality Print’). Go to Preferences and then change the Conversion Settings:

The last important thing to remember is that the PDF/A format (designed for long-term archival) is not compatible with transparent images. If you export those using PDF/A settings, they will just appear slightly darker than the original transparent one.

Using a PDF Printer Driver

If you cannot (or don’t want to) afford Adobe Acrobat, there are various PDF printer drivers that can be used to create PDFs from anything that can be printed. They often support more features than the plain Microsoft Office export module. The most prominent one probably is pdfforge’s PDFCreator. It’s free and also (for the most part) open source. However, the software has received some criticism for including unwanted software (and even malware) in their installer. While this seems to have been resolved, be careful!

How To Change Export Resolution Of Powerpoint Slide For Mac Computer

Linux and Headless Conversion

If you are on Linux and have to convert Microsoft Office files to PDF, OpenOffice/LibreOffice seem to work best. LibreOffice even supports a very useful headless mode than can be used from the console:

apt-get install libreoffice-common

libreoffice --headless --convert-to pdf document.docx --outdir pdf

On a Mac (and Windows), the same thing should work with soffice (the LibreOffice executable) instead of of libreoffice.

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1. According to Arminator (see comments), it is advisable to use the native PDF export when working with transparency generated by using PowerPoint effects (e.g., “Glow”). ↩