Can I print from Power Point?

[Sticky Signs]

Yes, I know Power Point is not the best program for design but in this case, it's the only thing that is available. Long story short, this company has a German exchange student designing a bunch of stuff for them and all he has is power point. (It's to bad because he's actually a pretty good designer considering he's learning to become an electrical engineer). So far I've had to rebuild everything he's sent me which adds $$$ to their bill. The final size is 47"x33". In this case, we have a lot of these prints to do and I really don't have time to rebuild all the files and hit their deadline.
So, can I print a file made in Power Point? If so, how do I set it up to have good resolution?
Any help is appreciated.

 

[CanuckSigns]

I have local university students send me research posters to be printed all the time that they created in powerpoint, he should be able to save them as a pdf or tiff file for you, if not you should be able to using one of the many "print to pdf" programs out there.

 

[qmr55]

If it is a newer version of power point, you can open it in power point and export/save it as a pdf.

 

[Mike F]

Your question was already answered, but I'd suggest you point the poor kid to Inkscape and GIMP. That's gotta suck for him having nothing but Power Point to use.

 

[Sticky Signs]

Thanks guys.
I've convinced them to order Illy to make the kids life (and mine) a little easier. They got it and now head office has lost the disk. Gotta love big corporations...
I believe he's using a very old copy of Power Point and he's told me that he can't print or save PDF's. I don't know anything about PP so I don't even know what's possible.
I've pointed him towards the recommended software so hopefully that helps.

 

[Mike F]

it's he's running 2007 he might just need this: https://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=9943

 

[Custom_Grafx]

Can't open office open it? Get it yourself and try. It's free. If u can open it, just print it to a PDF and you r done?

 

[LittleSnakey]

If you are using versaworks you can add it as a printer, then just print from any application to that printer. It will send it to versaworks then go from there. Flexi also allows you to add the production manager as a printer. I don't really do it this way much but once in a great while it comes in handy. Today I am printing a topo map from a mapping software that way.