I’ve always found the biggest culprit in this huge PPT files to the the graphics placed into them. Non-savvy PPT authors will place high resolution, full size JPEG files (logos, photos, graphs) into their presentations and “resize” them by just scaling them in PPT. (sounds like bad web design on the 90’s) This means you may be placing a 5mb file where a scaled down and compressed 50k file (using something as simple as the resizer utility in Windows) would suffice. Do this on two dozen slides and your presentation is now way larger than it needs to be, and no longer email friendly.

My overall preference is to save the PPT as a PDF before sending it out, as it reduces the file size and cannot be changed by the recipient.

what about ‘.zip’ or stuff-it your mac-head?

I take it some top secret new algorithm? should work on all files then?

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As a matter of principle, I’m against anything that enables more powerpoint presentations in the world. Why not just start a company that makes it easier for people to butcher kittens?

This should be a util in cent download.com Not as a whole business…come on.

I meant cnet download.com (not cent)

In case PPTShare thinks any differently, they should be well-prepared for Microsoft to implement something similar and not whine about it.

OK, so how does this one qualify as a ‘web 2.0′ app?

How does this compression ratio compare to those offered through traditional archive formats - such as zip?

I’m in on the kitten-butchering business:)

i’m just confused….i can compress, or i can post online and share, or i can use personal p2p apps to send, or a central network tool or perhaps just email it and so on and so on….these are just more solutions chasing imaginary problems….where exactly was that study that justified the concept behind this company? “today 90 percent of corporate CIO’s* say that even with cheap scalable computing infrastructure and ridiculous access to high bandwidth for a future of web services and applications, they are still crippled by big powerpoint files, and this is the problem we aim to solve” (*note: 4 CIO’s surveyed for this study, 3 are Beta Customers)

The website says, “Your presentations maintain the PowerPoint file format and remain fully editable - so they can be opened and edited by anybody with a copy of PowerPoint.” so it is probably more accurate to call it optimization rather than compression. So I’m assuming they are just using lossy compression on the images rather than any sort of lossless compression. Pretty pricy for something you could do by hand if you really wanted to.

these tools have been out for years, check out http://www.nxpowerlite.com, I’ve seen a 120MB presentation go down to about 4MB, it’s generally 50/50 some idiot pasting in huge BMP’s and Microsofts weird way of handling Objects in their office suite,

I liked it better the first time when it was called WinZip.

Files created in the beta of PowerPoint 2007 seem to be smaller already, my guess as a result of better image compression built into the product. My guess is PPTShare won’t last too long after that.

Why not just share your desktop, load anything on your desktop, whether ppt /word docs/ excel sheets.

why not do it for free..

try this : http://www.jhatak.com
The free internet web meeting client

What can I say! read this

http://tnerd.com/2006/10/25/co.....antations/

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PPTshare Desktop Slide Library with sharing now available.

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