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Engineers love pictures of buildings they are working on.
That fine, only they always put them into the slides as .BMP files. Here is where the problem lies. BMP files are very large compared to .JPG files. The first thing I would usually do was to take the picture out of the slide and open it up with a program called ACDSee or something equivalent that converts images. Once converted to a .JPG, I re-insert it back into the slide.