Plus it’s pretty quick to export the stills to a named folder in numerical order. From a dialogue box that pops up, you can set the format, size and resolution in a jiffy. In Powerpoint for Mac hit File > Save as Pictures. Saving a PowerPoint presentation as a series of images is exceptionally easy and fast. Saving PowerPoint Presentations as Images Download my Automator PDF to JPG preset here for free. Using a quick Automator workflow, I was able to quickly export out a 30-40 page PDF was exported as a series of JPEGs. The problem with using OSX Preview to export images is that (as far as I could figure out) it saves the images one at a time. Some however handed over their presentations as a PDF. Most of the speakers duly uploaded their slides in PowerPoint format to a shared folder. I was editing at a conference recently where we had to turn around all the videoed presentations, complete with PowerPoint slides edited in, in a short space of time. You used to be able to convert BMP images to JPEG, PNG, or GIF format using the Mac Automator program, but as we've noted on my Mac batch image conversion tutorial, this functionality is currently broken, and unless you want to use the Mac command line, using Preview is the only current, free way I know to convert BMP images on a Mac.Īnother way to do this is to use the free Gimp Image Editor, but in this article I was trying to focus on how to solve the problem without downloading any new software.If you need to turn a client PDF into a series of still images to put into your edit, this this little workflow tip could save you a ton of time! Next, here are the image format options on my current Mac OS X 10.6.7 system: First, the menu as it appears when you first choose the Save-As option: That's all you have to do to convert a BMP image to a JPEG or PNG format.įor the record, here are two screenshots to show what the Preview Save-As menu looks like. With the "Format" drop-down selector, choose the format you want, such as JPEG, PNG, GIF, etc.Double-click the BMP image, and it will open in Preview.If you have just one BMP image you want to convert, you can do this with the Mac OS X Preview application. Mac BMP image FAQ: How can I convert a BMP image to a JPEG (JPG) format on a Mac? (Or to a PNG, TIFF, GIF, or PDF format.)
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