Microsoft KB Archive/815000

= When you print an Edited Encapsulated PostScript (EPS) picture on a PostScript Printer, the changes do not print =

Article ID: 815000

Article Last Modified on 3/19/2007

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007
 * Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2003
 * Microsoft PowerPoint 2002 Standard Edition

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SYMPTOMS
When you print a slide that contains an edited Encapsulated PostScript (EPS) graphic on a PostScript printer, the changes to the graphic do not print.



CAUSE
When you change an EPS graphic, you change a preview image but not the actual EPS file. When PowerPoint prints an EPS graphic, the EPS file data is sent to the printer. The changes that you make to the preview image on the slide are ignored.



WORKAROUND
To edit and make changes to an EPS graphic and have those changes print, convert the graphic to an Enhanced Metafile (EMF) image. To do so, follow these steps:  Right-click the EPS graphic, and then click Cut. For PowerPoint 2007  Click the Home tab, click the arrow under Paste, and then click Paste Special.

For PowerPoint 2002 or PowerPoint 2003  Click Edit, and then click Paste Special.  Click Picture (Enhanced Metafile), and then click OK.</li></ol>

If you want to make substantial changes to the graphic, paste the image as an Office Drawing Object instead. By doing so, you can ungroup the drawing and make changes to each individual component. To ungroup the drawing, right-click the drawing object, point to Group, and then click Ungroup.

Additional query words: PPT2002 crop PPT2007

Keywords: kbprb KB815000

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