PPT2002: Presentations with Rotated Graphics Take Longer to Print (814998)

SYMPTOMS

When you try to print a PowerPoint presentation, you may experience a long delay before the presentation begins to print. This delay may be longer if you are printing to a PostScript printer.

CAUSE

This issue may occur if your presentation contains several rotated graphics. The individual file size of the graphics may increase to forty times the original size. This creates a large spool file that takes longer to process and print. The file size increases for two different reasons:

Raster or bitmap images are resampled by the printer driver before printing. This makes a graphic that is not rotated, although the image is. The resampling procedure decompresses the image, and this increases the size of the file.
Rotated vector-based images are rasterized before being printed from a PostScript printer. This can increase the size of the graphic to forty times it original size.

WORKAROUND

To work around this issue, reduce the image size:

Select the rotated image.
On the Edit menu, click Cut.
On the Edit menu, click Paste Special.
For bitmaps, click Picture (PNG). For vector graphics, click Picture.
Click OK.

After you finish this process, the images are no longer rotated, and this creates a smaller printer spooler file when you print your presentation.