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David replied on June 20, 2008 21:37 to the question "Poor final image quality" in SlideShare:

I had similar issues, found this thread, and reuploaded my file as a PDF, and the image quality is excellent now.

the agile badger replied on January 17, 2008 15:02 to the question "Poor final image quality" in SlideShare:

I don't see a "Save as" or "Export" for pdf in Powerpoint. Do I need the Adobe PDFmaker plugin for Powerpoint to make the .pdf file of my slideshow?

bhups replied on January 17, 2008 04:53 to the question "Poor final image quality" in SlideShare:

Rashmi, how are you converting the ppt into pdf (i.e. which application?) use 4th option to set the compression ratio.

rashmi replied on January 17, 2008 04:36 to the question "Poor final image quality" in SlideShare:

I tried to do this, but dont see the options you describe. When I convert from ppt to pdf, I can set the DPI resolution to screen.

But for the compression, I see options for below. But dont see any options for setting compression level
1) Compress Text and Line Art
2) Ascii Format
3) Downsample Images

4) Color Grayscale Images (Compress using JPG High/...)
6) Monochrome Images (Compress using JPG High/...)

bhups replied on January 17, 2008 04:28 to the question "Poor final image quality" in SlideShare:

If you want to upload the PDF then while converting the ppt into pdf retain the DPI and increase the compression upto 50 %. That'll do!
Cheers!

the agile badger replied on January 16, 2008 19:28 to the question "Poor final image quality" in SlideShare:

Wow! That's perfect! Will I have to do anything special to get this kind of image quality, like save the .ppt file as a .pdf? Or was this done straight from the.ppt file?

bhups replied on January 11, 2008 09:18 to the question "Poor final image quality" in SlideShare:

have a look at this... if it suits your needs.. :)
http://www.slideshare.net/bhupendra.s...

the agile badger replied on December 03, 2007 21:13 to the question "Poor final image quality" in SlideShare:

Thanks for your help, rashmi. The text on the samples you produced are quite readable now, so that is an improvement. But the line quality in the artwork is poor, and many of the continuous tone gradients got converted into some strange moire fringe pattern.

The version with larger files is indeed better, but nowhere near what I would need to market my strip. Here's a link to one of the individual strips in the series with the quality I would need:

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2023/2...

rashmi, an employee of SlideShare, replied on December 03, 2007 20:55 to the question "Poor final image quality" in SlideShare:

Hey agile,

I downloaded your file and uploaded it again here: http://www.slideshare.net/rashmi/vaca...

I saved it as pdf, turned off all image compression. The final results look much better in the full view. The file is bigger so it takes a bit longer to load, but well worth the efforts.

The problem with the slideview is that the image is too small. I would suggest increasing the size of the image so that it takes up larger area.
I tried that here: http://www.slideshare.net/rashmi/vaca...

I also tried uploading as ppt, the image quality is much worse. I think our conversion algorithms are doing something not quite right there and I will our engineers to look into it. IN the meantime, pdf if your friend.

Let me know when you have seen all these test slideshows and I will delete them all from my account. In general, I would like to see more comics on SlideShare, so I am glad to work with you to make sure the quality is what you want.

rashmi

the agile badger replied on December 01, 2007 17:19 to the question "Poor final image quality" in SlideShare:

Thanks rashmi. Here's the link to my slideshare powerpoint. It's for a comic strip I'm developing, so crisp lines in the graphics and readability of the text is of the highest importance. As you can see, when the screen image is left to the default size, it's too small to see clearly. And when it's increased to full-size, the quality is awful.

http://www.slideshare.net/theagilebad...

rashmi, an employee of SlideShare, replied on December 01, 2007 00:40 to the question "Poor final image quality" in SlideShare:

The image files should render fine unless the image has text in it. The text in the image often does not render very well.

I find that sometimes it works better when I save the file as pdf (and make sure the image is not getting compressed too much).

If you point me to your slidehsow, I might be able to give you more tips.

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the agile badger asked a question in SlideShare on November 30, 2007 23:25:

Poor final image quality

I'm using 300dpi JPEG files in my ppt file that look crisp and clear, but the final slideshare show looks awful. What's up?