Custom paper size

[Solidhart]

Is there a way to increase the paper size to over 142.24 cm in PP.X or 2004?
Windows versions can...

 

[TAJ Simmons]

Custom paper sizeSolidhart,

Are you trying to print posters from powerpoint? Is that why you need the big paper size?

If so....just set the paper size to something that is the same aspect ratio (e.g. 4:3)

Most printers drivers have an option to "scale to fit" or "application page size is X...please enlarge it to Y when you print".

See
Print posters or other large format output
http://www.rdpslides.com/pptfaq/FAQ00537.htm


Cheers
TAJ Simmons
microsoft powerpoint mvp

awesome - powerpoint backgrounds,
free powerpoint templates, tutorials, hints and tips etc
http://www.powerpointbackgrounds.com
Is there a way to increase the paper size to over 142.24 cm in PP.X or 2004? Windows versions can...

 

[Solidhart]

Solidhart,

Are you trying to print posters from powerpoint? Is that why you need the big
paper size?

If so....just set the paper size to something that is the same aspect ratio
(e.g. 4:3)

Most printers drivers have an option to "scale to fit" or "application page
size is X...please enlarge it to Y when you print".

See
Print posters or other large format output
http://www.rdpslides.com/pptfaq/FAQ00537.htm

Cheers
TAJ Simmons
microsoft powerpoint mvp

awesome - powerpoint backgrounds,
free powerpoint templates, tutorials, hints and tips etc
http://www.powerpointbackgrounds.com

That¹s exactly what I wanted to do. Thanks for the info. I thought though
that it would be nice to print at 1:1 since there won¹t be any loss of
quality. There would be no loss for text since they are scaleable, but a
tiny bit of loss would be there, at least in theory, for graphics. Still, I
would like to see it in the next version of Office.

Solidhart

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

Thanks for the info. I thought though that it would be nice to print at 1:1

since there wont be any loss of quality. There would be no loss for text
since they are scaleable, but a tiny bit of loss would be there, at least in
theory, for graphics. Still, I would like to see it in the next version of
Office.

Interesting question. It'd depend on how PPT handles the bitmaps on output (and
that in turn might depend on the specific printer technology and driver).

You could test this pretty simply if you're using a PostScript printer:

Set up a single-slide presentation with a fairly large bitmap.

Print to the printer driver you intend to use, choose a normal output page size
(Letter, A4, whatever's standard where you are), pick the scale to fit page option
and print to file.

Repeat, everything the same, only this time, choose the largest paper size your
printer driver supports and print to file again.

Compare the sizes of the two files.

They won't be identical in size, but if they're fairly close, it probably means that
PPT is handing the bitmap off to the driver at full original size and letting the
printer do the scaling.




--
Steve Rindsberg, PPT MVP
PPT FAQ: www.pptfaq.com
PPTools: www.pptools.com
================================================
Featured Presenter, PowerPoint Live 2004
October 10-13, San Diego, CA www.PowerPointLive.com
================================================

 

[Solidhart]

Interesting question. It'd depend on how PPT handles the bitmaps on output
(and
that in turn might depend on the specific printer technology and driver).

You could test this pretty simply if you're using a PostScript printer:

Set up a single-slide presentation with a fairly large bitmap.

Print to the printer driver you intend to use, choose a normal output page
size
(Letter, A4, whatever's standard where you are), pick the scale to fit page
option
and print to file.

Repeat, everything the same, only this time, choose the largest paper size
your
printer driver supports and print to file again.

Compare the sizes of the two files.

They won't be identical in size, but if they're fairly close, it probably
means that
PPT is handing the bitmap off to the driver at full original size and letting
the
printer do the scaling.




--
Steve Rindsberg, PPT MVP
PPT FAQ: www.pptfaq.com
PPTools: www.pptools.com
================================================
Featured Presenter, PowerPoint Live 2004
October 10-13, San Diego, CA www.PowerPointLive.com
================================================

Thanks Steve, I'll make sure to follow it up.

While we're on the graphic limitation of Office (or Mac in general, it
seems), I have another complain that's universal across Office. I use a
program called Graphpad Prism. It can easily generate graphs from datasets
in a way Excel can dream of. The problem is, copy-pasted graphs from Prism
to Office apps is not embedded (Mac in general doesn't support embedding?)
and is pasted as a bitmap. Or something. Print this file and you get jagged
lines instead of smooth lines you find in PC.

Well, I can live with that. As long as I can see the lines. What's even
worse is that in Office 2004, any text that is not treated as graphics is
pasted as a thick, illegible "text". This doesn't happen with Office v.X. My
guess is, through Office 2004, Quartz is treating some texts such as those
in the X and Y axes as graphics while other texts such as title is treated
differently. Could you shed some light into this madness?? Has this happened
with any other softwares?

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

Thanks Steve, I'll make sure to follow it up.

Let us know what you learn too, please? Thanks!

While we're on the graphic limitation of Office (or Mac in general, it
seems), I have another complain that's universal across Office. I use a
program called Graphpad Prism. It can easily generate graphs from datasets
in a way Excel can dream of. The problem is, copy-pasted graphs from Prism
to Office apps is not embedded (Mac in general doesn't support embedding?)
and is pasted as a bitmap. Or something. Print this file and you get jagged
lines instead of smooth lines you find in PC.

It sounds as though it's a bitmap, but to be sure, what happens when you try to
ungroup it within PPT? If it ungroups, it's not a bitmap.

Another thing to look into: does Prism export to other formats that you can
Insert, Picture, From File into PPT? PICT, EPS, or the like?

Well, I can live with that. As long as I can see the lines. What's even
worse is that in Office 2004, any text that is not treated as graphics is
pasted as a thick, illegible "text". This doesn't happen with Office v.X. My
guess is, through Office 2004, Quartz is treating some texts such as those
in the X and Y axes as graphics while other texts such as title is treated
differently. Could you shed some light into this madness?? Has this happened
with any other softwares?

Can't help with that, I'm afraid. I haven't got Office 2004 yet.


--
Steve Rindsberg, PPT MVP
PPT FAQ: www.pptfaq.com
PPTools: www.pptools.com
================================================
Featured Presenter, PowerPoint Live 2004
October 10-13, San Diego, CA www.PowerPointLive.com
================================================