Encountering sizing issues when sharing visuals to PowerPoint

[arca123]

Hi!

I am trying to share visuals to PowerPoint. My goal is to prepare visuals that are needed for monthly report and just refresh the data model once a month and have the montly report ready. This monthly report then is reviewed and edit by other team members. The end product is saved to a PDF.

I have encountered several issues:

1) Visual quality is decreased a lot when the pptx is saved as PDF. It becomes much more grainy and ugly. I read on this forum that this is caused due to incompatible resolutions. However, the visuals look crisp in pptx. Both the report and pptx file is viewed in 1920x1080, but this quality is lost after the file is saved to PDF. Would anybody be able to share a solution for this?

2) Maybe related, I have issues with visual size. As in width and height. For some reason, I can't increase visuals width beyond 52,92cm. This cause not all items to be displayed in the visual. What could be the cause for this? Is there a hard limit on the size of the visual? 
Maybe someone has had experience with this and have some tips how to efficiently transport these visuals to pptx and then to PDF?

[v-heq-msft]

Hi @arca123 ,
Based on your description, I did some tests. If you use PDF as the final submission, you can do all the steps in power bi and then you can directly use the export to PDF option.ou can refer to this document:
Export reports to PDF - Power BI | Microsoft Learn

If you still want to adjust the power point to save as a PDF later, you can right-click on the picture, and then select Format picture on the right side of the choice of Size&Propties, change the Resolution after the size of the picture to control in order to comply with your needs requirements.

Best regards,

Albert He

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[arca123]

Thanks Albert, this has been insightful! Previously I only used ''share link to this visual'' function, I hadn't considered the export option from workspace. Exporting as ''Powerpoint -> Embed an image'' works the best, and the quality is not lost anymore. 

However, my initial goal was to embed live data, so it gets automatically refreshed every month and I no longer have to touch this powerpoint. Any tips on how to keep the quality there? If I export the powerpoint with live data, the quality gets lost once I save it as PDF. If I share visual to powerpoint and then use ''Show as saved image'' function, I believe it breaks and nothing gets loaded/displayed:

Any suggestions on how to use live data in powerpoint and keep the quality?