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Amiee,

Microsoft PowerPoint might prove successful as you can scan images to and save as many pages as you want. PowerPoint has no photo editing power, but it seems you only want a format/program to hold many images in a single file. PowerPoint can do that.

PhotoDraw does NOT support multiple pages. Here are two excerpts from the PhotoDraw help file.
I have added bolding for emphasis.

TIFF: Tagged Image File Format PhotoDraw supports all TIF formats that conform to TIFF Specification Revision 5.0 and 6.0, Part 1: Baseline TIFF, including monochrome, grayscale, palette color, and RGB True Color images. Single 8-bit alpha channel stored with an RGB True Color image is correctly handled, as are CMYK images saved with the .tif extension.

The TIFF filter provided by PhotoDraw does not support multiple alpha channels (stored as subfiles) or alpha channels that don’t have 8 bits per pixel.

GIF: Graphics Interchange Format PhotoDraw supports versions GIF87a (including interlacing) and GIF89a (including interlacing and transparency). When opening animated GIF files in PhotoDraw, only the first image in the sequence is imported.

Hope this helps!
v/r,
Ryan

Amiee,

If you have Windows Imaging. You can scan one image to that program, save it as a tiff, and then continue to scan, appending pages to the original. I have not tried in PhotoDraw. Will try next week, if successfull, will reply to you again.

Ryan

The answer is … YES …
However, it comes at a price of overhead.

I believe you are trying to ask, “Is there a way to protect my presentations from others that would alter my work or plagiarize it?”

Try this. When saving your presentation,
1. select an image format. It can be gif, jpg, or whatever you want. Then when you click on OK, you will be prompted if you want to export ALL the slides or just that one.
2. If you click yes, All slides become independent images.
3. You will then have to INSERT the images as background pictures individually in a new blank presentation. The file size can become quite large depending on, the amount of slides you are dealing with AND/OR the image type used for conversion, hence the cost of overhead.
4. By making the background of each slide an image is almost completely protected from copy and paste functions, unless they save your presentation as images or copy from either the slide sorter or speaker notes view.

This is one way that I have found to protect the integrity of my work where everyone that is viewing the material has up to date computers. It doesn’t actually protect it but slows down the novice Plagiarizer.

NOTE: If someone is determined to copy your work, you cannot stop them. There is always a way to defeat any security measure you can impose in PowerPoint.

Ryan

Rob,

I used to use PPT 97 allot and did what you mentioned on a regular basis. I hope this is how I did what you are looking for.

Copy a single slide from the slide sorter view, then paste it into a normal view slide. To re-size, select the pasted object and hold control while dragging the object corner place holders to fill the entire slide. If you are crossing over many slides, this could a few minutes. I think this method could be your best option as it will allow you to edit the embedded slides without having to commit to keep an additional presentation tied to your resources.

Ryan

Kate,

I did a little searching on “cymk converter” / “cmyk converter” and came across some freeware/trialware applications listed in ZDNet. I have not tried the products, so I do not have an opinion.

– Color Expert from the Company: Abitom Software runs on 95/98/Nt/2000/Me.
– PhotoGraf requires Windows 95/98

Remember, freeware/trialware is not always safe. You might want to investigate more for something with a reasonable cost from a reliable/trusted source.

Ryan

Kate,

The difference is “Quality”!

Something that Microsoft forgot about years ago in their quest for world domination.

Have you considered using a conversion/converter program? It might be free or considerable less than puchasing and ENTIRE program for the few pictures you want printed.

Ryan

Kate,

I’ve corrected myself…
You have to manually set the color mode/scheme to CYMK or four color and THEN save as something like a TIFF file. The following is a list of programs that can and cannot render the file types you seek. Unfortunatly, PhotoDraw cannot facilitate CYMK. You may be able to find an image file converter to take an image that is RGB to CYMK.

Programs for 4-colour process printing
Preferred:
QuarkXPress (all versions)
Adobe PageMaker (all versions)
Adobe Photoshop (all versions)
Adobe Illustrator (all versions)
CorelDRAW (all versions)

Unusable:
Microsoft “anything”
Corel Office Suite
Corel WordPerfect

Good Luck!

Kate,

I did a little research in PhotoDraw and did not find anything directly related to “4 colors/four colors.” So, I went the the web and found these sites on color.

The “four color process” is the best site I have found and it appears that the term four color does not relate to the image that you are providing, it relates to how the image is printed (duplicated). If I am wrong in this determination, I am willing to be corrected.

“Four-color process printing is the most demanding. The four basic colors used to create the exact color
specified are generally referenced as CMYK. “C” represents Cyan or blue, “M” represents magenta or
red, “Y” represents yellow, and “K” represents black.”
Located at: http://www.bob-weber.com/faq9.htm.

A very technical article “Color FAQ” is specific about color and can be located at:
http://www.inforamp.net/~poynton/notes/col…a/ColorFAQ.html

This last article has some interesting information and is located at:
http://www.allthesky.com/articles/imagecolor.html.

Ryan

Your sample code works almost for PPT97. I was directed to this forum to find the answer to my question.

I am trying to do something similar with the document properties, however, I wish to place the contents of the properties from each tab on a PowerPoint slide so I can better keep track of the multitude of revisions and statistics that swamp me weekly. I am a VB dummy and am willing to learn.

I have found several examples of other code that show me how to add a slide, and add both path and filename or author… I am in need of something greater.

Can you recommend a good resource to learn PowerPoint VB, like a book or video?.

I am using both PP97 (home) and PP2K SR1 (work).
I will appreciate any guidance in this endeavor.

Thanks in advance,
Ryan W.

Thanks.
I am not VB savvy and will need much time to wade through and decipher how this code stuff works.

I reviewed the thread and copied all the links that I thought pertained to my need. I followed a few links and about fried by brain, I need a break.

I appreciate your speedy reply,
Ryan W.

Not a funny question. In fact, I have just about knocked myself out trying to puzzle the same thing. I have tried all variations of , &, {file}, and so on…

In addition to the field code for the file name, I am also trying to discover how to print the contents of the properties dialogue (all tabs), either concurrent or separate to a print job.

Much thanks in advance,
Ryan W.

Leif,
you beat me to the punch, I use Diskeeper – the lite version – and it works great for me.

Jody,
It is stable and I have had no problems with it. I am running NT Wkstn 4.0 SP6a P3 500Mhz 128RAM.

Ryan