PPT98: PowerPoint Appears to Hang Resizing Image, Changing Zoom
Article ID: 188377
Article Last Modified on 10/3/2002
APPLIES TO
- Microsoft PowerPoint 98 for Macintosh
This article was previously published under Q188377
SYMPTOMS
When you resize, or scale a large high-resolution image or change the zoom
settings on a slide that contains an image, Microsoft PowerPoint may appear
to hang while it redraws the image. During this brief period, the image may
appear to vanish or flash, before it reappears. Depending on the speed of
your computer processor, this process may be longer or shorter than ten
seconds.
This behavior is noticed only in bitmap images, not metafile images. It
affects the following file formats:
Bitmap (BMP, DIB, RLE)
Paintbrush (PCX)
CompuServe Graphics Interchange Format (GIF)
JPEG File Interchange Format (JPG)
Tagged Image File Format (TIF)
Encapsulated Postscript (EPS)
Macintosh PICT (PIC)
Kodak Photo CD (PCD)
CAUSE
This behavior is to be expected when you insert large, high-resolution
images in a presentation. PowerPoint must render the image each time the
viewing aspect or size changes. This process is processor intensive, and
PowerPoint may appear to hang until this process is completed.
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