Scaling of the Presnetation Size

[silva]

We occasionally rent out the main auditorium of one of our moviehouses to
people looking for a place to host meetings, seminars, and various other
presentations and events. The digital projector we have there is mainly for
pre-show advertisements, and as such displays that material appropriately.
However, when that projector is used to display PowerPoint presentations, the
image is beyond the size of the screen, displaying all around. Is there a way
to adjust currently existing or new new presentations to scale to fit our
screen? Since the projector has no method for scaling it's own image and we
can't move it around (it's positioned exactly where it needs to be), we need
some method of doing this within PowerPoint. This is with using v 2003. All
the little things we've tried only made smaller images stretched out to fit
the screen. How do we scale down the actual presentation to a smaller size?

 

[Lucy Thomson]

Hi Silva

I would try playing with 'browsed by an individual (window)' in the Slide
Show -> Set up show dialogue. This will allow you to resize the display
window and move it so it fills your screen correctly - though you may want
it to be a bit too big so the menu bar at the top & status bar at the bottom
display off the screen. PowerPoint will remember this window size unless you
change it.

I'm sure someone else will have a better solution, but this may be worth
looking into in the meantime.

Lucy

 

[Lucy Thomson]

I came up with a few ideas, none that good. <g>

Might be worth having a read here; there are ways of adjusting the slide
size
in XML/HTML that don't distort everything on the slide the way it does
when you
change Page Size:

Make screenshow fill a wide screen display
http://www.pptfaq.com/FAQ00566.htm

Or if it's a simple pressie with no animations/builds/etc. you could
export
each slide as an image then bring each image back into a new presentation
with
black b/g and adjust the image size/position so they just fill the screen
as
projected.

All in all, more work and less reliable than your suggestion. ;-)

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Lucy

 

[silva]

Ok, I think I should add this. Say for example that the projector is running
at 1280x1024, but we would want the presentation displayed in the center at
something like 800x600. And we really only have this issue because the
project is mounted up in the projection booth which is a considerable
distance from the screen and we can't move it to a more suitable location for
such use.

 

[Austin]

I am confused as to why you want to try and use a resolution that is not
native to the projector.



Austin Myers
AT&W Technologies

Creators PowerPoint Add-Ins
www.playsforcertain.com

 

[silva]

I have read some of the other solutions, but it looks like the only one that
might work would be the one regarding exporting the slides then importing
them back in at a small size. Resizing the presentation in the "Page Setup"
doesn't work so well. It still stretches the images to fill the display
(tried it before the first post). While exporting/importing seems like
excessive work, I think that's the path we'll have to take.