Need to create .cif files

[Bob Buckland ?:-)]

Hi Judith,

You may want to ask the folks in the MS Powerpoint Mac newsgroup
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on this one.

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<<"Judith Tacelli" <jud...@atbothends.com> wrote in message news:3B544F94...@atbothends.com...
Hi,

I'm a freelance art director working on a Microsoft PowerPoint 98
project for a client. The slide show is about 110 slides, each with
placed graphics. This show needs to be able to run on PC machines
running Windows 2000 with only 64 megs of memory.

I am finding that placed .emf vector files (even though they are very
small in size (12 k) don't run on the 64 meg machines (out of memory
issues). But with placed .cif (Clip Interchange Library) files the show
runs fine.

My questions:

Is a .cif file a vector file?

What program is used to create .cif files?

Can .eps or .emf files be converted to .cif files?

Why do .cif files seem to take less memory to display than .emf files?

I would like to be able to convert all of the graph work I've done for
my client as .emf files to .cif files so that they can use these vector
graphics in the presentation.

Thanks in advance for any advice/help.

jt>>
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[Judith Tacelli]

I have, thanks. Since Office also uses the .cil image format I thought
may someone here might also be able to shed some light. Sorry about the
typo in my message. It should have read .cil not .cif.

Thanks again,

jt

[Bob Buckland ?:-)]

Hi Judith,

The .CIL file is basically a zipped set of graphics
and keywords for downloads from http://dgl.microsoft.com
and is unpacked by Artgalry.exe. I've not seen a way
to have those used directly with Insert=>Picture on
a PC and MS doesn't provide a PC utility to create them.

If it's inserted as an object in Powerpoint 2000 and
double clicked it unpacks the graphic into the ClipArt
Gallery.

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<<"Judith Tacelli" <jud...@atbothends.com> wrote in message news:3B546924...@atbothends.com...

Thanks again,

jt>>
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