Aspect Ratio

[extraordinarydesign]

Version: 2004 Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) Processor: Intel I have a kiosk power point presentation. It is a continuous loop of pictures. Although the pictures are inserted at full screen when created, there is a border (slide background shows) left and right.

I have a Mac Book pro 17" and I want to display the presentation on an LCD wide screen 42".

I have tried formatting the picture [Format\Picture] using Lock aspect, Relative to slide and Best for presentation. All that happens is that the picture zooms to massive size and gets cropped - not what I want; image filling screen without borders. It doesn't display as I want it on this MacBook and it seems that the 'error' was just enlarged at 42" scale.

I don't want distorted and stretched pictures but I also don't want this border. Help! - I have to have this presentation ready for an exhibition soon.

 

[Jim Gordon Mac MVP]

Version: 2004 Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) Processor: Intel
I have a kiosk power point presentation. It is a continuous loop of
pictures. Although the pictures are inserted at full screen when
created, there is a border (slide background shows) left and right.

I have a Mac Book pro 17" and I want to display the presentation on an
LCD wide screen 42".

I have tried formatting the picture [Format\Picture] using Lock aspect,
Relative to slide and Best for presentation. All that happens is that
the picture zooms to massive size and gets cropped - not what I want;
image filling screen without borders. It doesn't display as I want it on
this MacBook and it seems that the 'error' was just enlarged at 42" scale.

I don't want distorted and stretched pictures but I also don't want this
border. Help! - I have to have this presentation ready for an exhibition
soon.

Hi,

The overall aspect ratio of slides is determined by the page size in
Page Setup. It's best to start with a blank presentation then use Page
Setup and choose or create a paper size that's in the aspect ration you
desire *before* placing objects onto any slides. If you wait, then
changing the aspect ratio will result in stretched or squished pictures.

-Jim

 

[extraordinarydesign]

thanks for coming back to me on this - someone else suggested this which I've tried and it seems to work in that the slide layout goes to widescreen, then i dropped image in but of course with the majority of images being "normal" (4:3) format, this leaves a lot of blank space on the slide if it's unstretched. who invented wide screen anyway? i really don't get the point of it - we either get stretched images, cropped images or the screen unfilled so pointless having a large screen! i guess i need to experiment and maybe do a little bit of stretching - otherwise put another image or text in the blank space remaining. wish i'd hired a projector now, as i now have to reformat everything (but a friend told me projectors are "old hat" so i need to look "with it" ! i'm just an old fashioned girl who is ever frustrated with technological "progress" please forgive my whinging. if you have suggestions given my issues of trying to fill the screen but not distort - do let me know. i'm guessing that once i've formatted the presentation in widescreen, i can juggle between stretching on the lap top and stretching on the monitor (plasma screen) itself... thanks again for taking the time to respond - very kind of you.

Dan

 

[Jim Gordon Mac MVP]

thanks for coming back to me on this - someone else suggested this which
I've tried and it seems to work in that the slide layout goes to
widescreen, then i dropped image in but of course with the majority of
images being "normal" (4:3) format, this leaves a lot of blank space on
the slide if it's unstretched. who invented wide screen anyway? i really
don't get the point of it - we either get stretched images, cropped
images or the screen unfilled so pointless having a large screen! i
guess i need to experiment and maybe do a little bit of stretching -
otherwise put another image or text in the blank space remaining. wish
i'd hired a projector now, as i now have to reformat everything (but a
friend told me projectors are "old hat" so i need to look "with it" !
i'm just an old fashioned girl who is ever frustrated with technological
"progress" please forgive my whinging. if you have suggestions given my
issues of trying to fill the screen but not distort - do let me know.
i'm guessing that once i've formatted the presentation in widescreen, i
can juggle between stretching on the lap top and stretching on the
monitor (plasma screen) itself... thanks again for taking the time to
respond - very kind of you.

Dan

Personally, I don't like the appearance of stretched pictures. Think of
yourself as a cinema director who has to make a wide screen movie. Put
interesting things everywhere but those things should complement the
main action. An appropriate background is always in fashion.

-Jim