Office 2013 SP1 doesn't fix the problem with poor quality image exports

Sigh.  I was hoping to be able to report to you that the recently released Service Pack 1 (SP1) for Office 2013 solves PowerPoint 2013’s poor-quality image export problem, but unfortunately not.

Though they’re aware of it, Microsoft has chosen not to fix the problem for now.

So where does that leave us?  Well, if you use any of the PPTools add-ins that export images, I strongly suggest that you do NOT upgrade to Office 2013.

That would be:

PPT2HTML

PPT2HTML Batch

ImageExport

Protect

In most cases, you won’t notice huge differences in PPT2HTML/PPT2HTML Batch because by and large you won’t be exporting to high resolution images for use in HTML. 

But ImageExport’s main use is creating high resolution images from PowerPoint, and PowerPoint 2013 simply won’t cooperate.  If you really NEED high rez images, don’t upgrade until Microsoft sees fit to fix what they’ve broken.  We can’t do it.  It’s up to them.

When/if they fix it, we’ll let you know here. Immediately.