Full bleed to edge pan

[Brian Sullivan]

I thought I used to be able to (PPT 2003) do a full bleed to edge pan of a
picture by increasing the size of the picture to something like 300% --
depending on the amount of pan, aligning the picture to the left or right
edge then applying a custom animation in the direction of the pan.

I can't do this in 2007 -- it seems to crop the picture at the edge - and
pan but ends up showing the slide underneath (not the effect I was wanting
or expecting).

Was I imagining that this worked in 2003? Is there a way to do this in 2007?

 

[John Wilson]

Hi Brian

I don't think 2003 and 2007 are different in this respect. When the edge of
the picture is a certain amount "off slide" the animation fails giving the
effect you describe. Not sure what the "certain amount" is though it seems to
vary. I know people have stated one slides width off slide but it seems more
than that to me.
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[Brian Sullivan]

Hi Brian

I don't think 2003 and 2007 are different in this respect. When the edge
of
the picture is a certain amount "off slide" the animation fails giving the
effect you describe. Not sure what the "certain amount" is though it seems
to
vary. I know people have stated one slides width off slide but it seems
more
than that to me.

I found that Articulate (my end goal anyway) handles this "correctly" (or at
least the way I want) and maybe that is what I remember from PPT2003 so I
guess practically I don't really have a problem. This would seem to be a bug
in PowerPoint though?

 

[Lucy Thomson]

Hi Brian

There was a long discussion on this recently and the conclusion we came to
seemed to be 'it depends' . Depends on your system, depends on your
graphics card, depends on your driver, depends on where the image came from,
depends on the dpi of the image, all sorts of variables. I had some success
with opening an image in photoshop elements and resaving it at 96 dpi (I
think) even though it was allegedly already that dpi - all I know is it only
did one screen width before, then it did more after... All very odd. But
these kind of issues are very difficult to pin down when they seem to be
computer and image specific. And if you can't pin down the bug, I guess it's
hard to fix.

Lucy

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