Software Giveaway - Compress PowerPoint Presentations with PPTMinimizer
Google Docs Presentations allows PPT files only upto 10 MB in size while Slideshare imposes a 30 MB limit. What do you when your PPT file(s) exceed that maximum size limit?
Tools like PPTminimizer will quickly compresses your large PowerPoint Presentations into smaller files (without sacrificing quality) so that you easily send them as email attachments or upload to any of those PowerPoint hosting sites.
The software costs ~$30 but you can have it for free as we have ten licenses of PPTminimizer to give away. Just leave a comment below with your name, email address and website, if any. Would be wonderful if you can also share how you plan to use the software.
Here’s how PPTminimizer works - You select one (or multiple) PPT files and drag them onto PPTminimizer. It will automatically optimize the graphics and embedded objects in the presentations which are generally responsible for the large size. It integrates with Microsoft Outlook and will auto-compress the PPT attachments before sending them in email messages.
Other than the standard ppt and pps formats, PPTminimizer 3.0 also support the new PowerPoint 2007 formats (pptx) and is compatible with Windows Vista. Geetesh has a more in-depth review of PPTminimizer.
We will get in touch with you later this week if you are among the lucky winners. Good luck.
Related: Reduce the size of PowerPoint files (manual tricks)
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Getting presentation size small enough is a big problem. Would love to have a copy of pptminimizer.
This sounds like a great app and particularly useful with all the online sharing sites. I’d love to give it a try.
I do this thing manually often, as I received a lrage number of emails with gargantuan powerpoint attachments at work. Because of poor image embedding practices, slides that can only be less than 1MB, can easily balloon to more than 50MB. This software will save me lots of time shrinking ppt file sizes, presumably. Can’t wait.
I would like one of those licences please!
brilliant idea,
me to want this software
I need one, thanks :)
I fill my .ppt presentations with images and obviously they get very big very fast; I usually send (and receive, of course) several presentations per day. I would love to use the optimizer.
this is awesome! It will be very useful for me, thx :)
I’m always doing the manual changes, so an automatic tool would be great!
As a student I occasionally need this application to compress a lot of lecture notes power points.
Thanks Amit for this inform.
I would like to have one as well.
Wish I am among the lucky guys next week.
hey hey, please give me one okay? Thanks! (:
sounds a great piece of software.
really usful for emailing presentations
Sounds too good to be true that it can shrink the size without sacrificing quality. I am usually responsible for “death by powerpoint”, and maybe a free license for me, would make it less painful for all those who receive e-mails from me. In the interest of making cyberworld a better place to surf in, I hope I am one of the lucky guys next week.
Hi,
great stuff man ! Obviously would love a copy of this software !
Sounds a good offer and a good software too.
Hmmm… I wouldn’t mind checking this application out.
I want one a copy too! Btw, how DOES it minimize the size? Probably compresses the images using a different format? What other optimizations?
Sound like an excelent program.
would be very useful for my studies in the university.
Like to get 1 :)!
Seems like a good tool. There is another one called Nxpowerlite that comes from free. It is a small desktop application that gives you three levels of compression.
I blogged about it here:
http://tinyurl.com/32enyu
This will be realy useful for me as I will conducting and corordinating meetings and seminars very often.
Love to have licence if DI encourages……
Good one Amit. I maybe late, but wouldn’t want to miss it :-)
that will do the job for. hope to be the lucky one
I would love to have that PPT minimizer
Thanks!!
Me likey! Would appreciate a license :)
abby[at]baxiabhishek[dot]info
I’d like one. I coordinate a mailing list for the Bombay Quiz Club, and we share PPT files of the quizzes conducted by our members, which usually end up much larger than most emailers would permit. This would help greatly.
This software would make a few corporate jobs easier, please enter me in the competition!
Oh. Maybe now I would actually use Power Point to illustrate my short story ideas!
to introduce this tool in our company, i should win the competition for the license.
This is a s/w with high utility for me…I am a MBA student & u know how everything works on PPTs here…this would solve a big problem..I would love to have a copy of this software.
hi… i just started a business that involves me mailing my company profile and service plans (both image-heavy) to prospective clients n i’d really appreciate one of those licenses..
I have recently retired and now have more time to learn and improve my computerskills but am less able to afford software licences so a copy of this program would enable me to optimise my powerpoint photo shows which I like to produce.
Thanks a lot, Amit for making me one of the lucky winners. I have just downloaded and installed it. The tool looks neat and is light on resources - around 3 MB only. I guess what I will find very handy are the Powerpoint and Outlook addins. That way I can optimise my presentations while working on the ppt itself or before sending it off. Let me use it for some time as my presentations come along and see how it goes.
Amit, I believe I was one of the early commenter of this post. I can remember reading that this will be one of the basis for the selection. I’ll still wait though for you to honor your word.
That’s good software. I would love to have one
Amit, I teach online courses for people who want to go back to school to get an Associate degree. This would be great if you can support an educator and our students. Thank you.
Can I have one too please? Thanks!
How much compression is achieved using this s/w? I have noticed that 7-zip is generally able to achieve compression of around 80% for PPT’s and Doc’s. Hence a 30 MB file would be reduced by 24MB, good enough to be mailed easily by most email programs.
Hi Amrit — I hope I’m not too late for the free software contest. I work in a public school where all the kids work on individual lessons. In the past month I’ve taught myself how to use Google Page Creator and how to build Powerpoint presentations — in an effort to provide exciting, interesting, and motivating self-instructional tools to my kids. Now I have both going, but as you state above — I can’t use them together because my PPT’s are too big. I have tried to compress the pictures using the Picture tool in PPT but that actually made the thing bigger! (I think I created a monster!) I am struggling and could really use your help.
Great one. I’d probably give it to my sister so she can compress those lecture ppt presentations of her’s! Thanks!
We would love to have a copy of this free software. It would make life very much easier.
I have 30 student Personal Profile ppt presntations to fit on a cd. The kids have used large digtal photos, and the total files sizes are huge - some 100mgs.
Help me out please, it would be great to shrink all these files.
Regards,
Phil
Great software. I don’t know how they do it.
I tutor inner city students who need help in math and science. Part of the strategy is to get them to demonstrate their work in PowerPoint. Of course, the files can become huge. I’d love to shrink them down to a more share-able size.
I carry several presentations with me to lectures around the country. Would love to minimize the ppt file sizes.
I receive a lot of amateur ppt’s from friends, but sometimes do not forward them for the lenght of them, mostly uneeded. I’d like a way to minimize them to forward, and I suggest that you mark these with your propaganda like ’shrunk by pptminimizer’ when free copies where used.
Another thing that would be useful was to eliminate all those idiotic animations of text amateurs love to create but viewers hate.
Cheers from Rio.
Great tool for shrinking ppts. and freeing up valuable network and email server space.
I would love to have that PPT minimizer
Working for a public library and always creating presentations to education the public.
Thanks
I receive powerpoints from parishioners to put up the church website but some have used pictures far larger than needed. In their present form many will slow down access to the site and optimizing each graphic takes more time than I can spare.
I am responsible for presentations for trainers, teachers, health professionals etc. who are working with schoolchildren to reduce childhood obesity. The scheme is called DASH - Do Activity Stay Healthy - and this software would make all our lives much easier. The nature of the presentations is that they are graphics heavy, to engage children and get the message across, so Pptminimizer would be a tremendous asset - I will keep my fingers crossed!
Yours in hope, Barbara
I want to share some of my PPT shows on the internet. Such as Watch us Grow Old and Who Is This Jesus.
I am trying to send a presentation to the compliance department and I have a client arriving later today. I need it to be client aproved so that I’m not in violation of the standards and rules. This is an urgent issue.
It would be wonderful to have a program like this. I have been trying to reduce a 21 MG PowerPoint Show down to about 4 MG for the Web, but it seems impossible. Will this program do that, if so would you please send me one too? Pretty please? Thank you!
I know this software and used it already several times. I have some ppt presentations from 800 Kb up 2,6 Mb, which is too much for the net. In minimized format it’s easier to deliver, to send and to deal with.
Victor
It’s simply a great idea to compress bulky Powerpoint files. But I do not know whether this is also useful for compressing Corel WP Office files,Star/Open Office “Show” files or equivalent to PPT/PPS files of other office suites.