PPTools Image Export Newsfeed http://www.pptools.com/imageexport/ PPTools Image Export - What's new? ImageExport Updates and Revision History http://www.pptools.com/imageexport/FAQ00002.htm http://www.pptools.com/imageexport/FAQ00002.htm Mon, 02 Feb 2009 18:02:33 EST You can now choose image size by Pixels or DPI. DPI is the new addition; if you choose it, you can enter the DPI value you want for the exported image; ImageExport gives you that DPI times the current slide width in inches. In other words, if your slide is the default 10" wide, a setting of 300DPI gives you a 3000 pixel wide image. ImageExport also writes the desired DPI setting into the exported file if the file format supports DPI values (not all formats do). If you want to size your images in Pixels but still want a specific DPI value, you can do that too, so long as you export images in a format that supports DPI settings. Edit the PPTools.INI file and just below [ImageExport], add 
DPIOverride=XXX
where XXX is the DPI setting you want. If you enter nothing here, ImageExport uses its default of 300 DPI. Another handy but less obvious new feature: when you set ImageExport preferences, they're recorded in the presentation itself. That way each presentation can have its own settings. If no settings have yet been recorded for a presentation, ImageExport uses the settings from the last time you used it on another file. ImageExport Updates and Revision History http://www.pptools.com/imageexport/FAQ00002.htm http://www.pptools.com/imageexport/FAQ00002.htm Tue, 24 Feb 2009 20:00:18 EST Image Exporter now lets you choose the JPG quality level you want. JPGs are a compromise between smaller/lower-quality and larger/higher-quality images. Now you can choose the quality that suits your requirements. ImageExport Updates and Revision History http://www.pptools.com/imageexport/FAQ00002.htm http://www.pptools.com/imageexport/FAQ00002.htm Tue, 24 Mar 2009 11:48:03 EST ImageExport lets you choose the image width to export and it works out the image height for you based on the proportions of your PowerPoint slides. It never exports distorted images. But what if you NEED the images to be distorted/non-proportional for some reason? Now you can do that too. In the [ImageExport] section of the PPTools.INI file, add the following lines: ; Image Height and Width overrides: OverrideImageHeight=hhh OverrideImageWidth=www Substitute the image height and width you want (in pixels) for hhh and www above. Now when you export images, they'll be at the size you specify here, whether proportional to the original slide or not, and regardless of your preference settings. ImageExport Updates and Revision History http://www.pptools.com/imageexport/FAQ00002.htm http://www.pptools.com/imageexport/FAQ00002.htm Thu, 26 Mar 2009 19:26:39 EST You can now export the current slide immediately, without having to visit the Prefs dialog. Ctrl+Click the Export Images button (a palette icon, second button on the toolbar). You should always use the Prefs dialog at least once before doing this; when it does single-slide exports, Image Export uses whatever settings you chose the last time you visited the Prefs dialog box. Limitations, caveats, bugs http://www.pptools.com/imageexport/FAQ00005.htm http://www.pptools.com/imageexport/FAQ00005.htm Thu, 30 Apr 2009 10:51:04 EST Office 2007 Service Pack 2 fixes a bug that caused image exports to become corrupted at anything over 960 pixels. We recommend that all Image Export users install this update from Microsoft. This page includes a link to the download. ImageExport Updates and Revision History http://www.pptools.com/imageexport/FAQ00002.htm http://www.pptools.com/imageexport/FAQ00002.htm Mon, 04 Jan 2010 19:31:02 EST Added the ability to Ctrl+Click Help (?) button to round-trip the current PPT/PPTX file to HTML. This seems to help repair corruption that causes image export problems in PPT 2007. ImageExport Updates and Revision History http://www.pptools.com/imageexport/FAQ00002.htm http://www.pptools.com/imageexport/FAQ00002.htm Thu, 15 Apr 2010 10:52:45 EST You can now control the casing and even text of the file extension that Image Export adds to your exported files. ImageExport Updates and Revision History http://www.pptools.com/imageexport/FAQ00002.htm http://www.pptools.com/imageexport/FAQ00002.htm Fri, 13 Aug 2010 11:05:47 EST Improvement to ImageExport on 13 August 2010: ImageExport now allows you to force DPI setting at higher export resolutions. ImageExport Updates and Revision History http://www.pptools.com/imageexport/FAQ00002.htm http://www.pptools.com/imageexport/FAQ00002.htm Wed, 27 Oct 2010 10:51:04 EST 27 Oct, 2010 Fixed: Bug that caused slide numbers to disappear in images exported from PPT 2007 and later. ImageExport Updates and Revision History http://www.pptools.com/imageexport/FAQ00002.htm http://www.pptools.com/imageexport/FAQ00002.htm Mon, 22 Nov 2010 15:22:45 EST 22 November 2010 Fixed: a bug in PowerPoint 2007 that caused it to add a thin one or two-pixel gray line to the right and/or bottom edge of exported images. ImageExport Updates and Revision History http://www.pptools.com/imageexport/FAQ00002.htm http://www.pptools.com/imageexport/FAQ00002.htm Mon, 01 Aug 2011 10:02:50 EST Slide numbers would appear in the wrong place or incorrectly formatted when exporting slides from PowerPoint 2007 and up. Now fixed in the version of PPTools Image Exporter released 01 August, 2011. As always, the new version is available at no charge on the Downloads page at http://www.pptools.com/ ImageExport Updates and Revision History http://www.pptools.com/imageexport/FAQ00002.htm http://www.pptools.com/imageexport/FAQ00002.htm Tue, 26 Feb 2013 11:27:55 EST Some versions of PowerPoint will cause an odd bit of blurry/distorted text to appear in empty picture or content placeholders in the exported image. This page describes a simple fix for the probllem. As always, the new version is available at no charge on the Downloads page at http://www.pptools.com/ Images are cut off http://www.pptools.com/imageexport/FAQ00038.htm http://www.pptools.com/imageexport/FAQ00038.htm Wed, 02 Oct 2013 16:08:34 EST There's an odd bug in PowerPoint that can cause add-ins and other code-driven file exports to produce cut-off images. This explains how it can happen and how to fix the problem.