Images are resized when saving as PDF

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Written by Jérôme | Updated

When saving a PowerPoint presentation as PDF, you may experience all charts and tables exported with UpSlide changing size.

Issue

When saving a document, the table in PowerPoint (fig. A) would look smaller after saving it as PDF (fig. B).

fig. A fig. B

This problem happens when the display settings are changed by connecting to an external monitor or the primary screen scaling. Any export from Excel to PowerPoint made until you next log out will present this issue.

Impacted versions:

  • UpSlide: all versions
  • Windows: starts from Windows 10
  • Office: 2010, 2013, 2016, o365

Solution

  • You can sign out of your Windows session and sign back in to update the scaling. It will temporarily solve the issue, but you risk seeing it occur again.
  • A more permanent solution is to go into the Windows Display Settings and select your laptop screen as the primary monitor. You can restart your computer to ensure the monitor configuration is correct at startup.

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