Vertical scroll on long images - summary of findings.

[Chris Watts]

For the benefit of those who may not have followed all of the thread on
Vertical scroll on long images, let me summarise what Brian Clarke and I
have unearthed - with the help of various MVPs.

If you attempt to Crawl-in or use Motion Path on a picture that is greater
than three screen heights then it is likely to be truncated.
But if you narrow the width (yes width) of the picture to below 24 cm (NB
full screen width is 25.4 cm) then these animations will perform correctly
without truncation. Picture size may also be a factor.

The Credit animation does not seem to respond to this trick and is truncated
even if you narrow the picture.

I suspect that something similar will apply to horizontal movement of wide
images but have not experimented with this.

This seems to apply to PPT 2003 and PPT 2007

cheers
Chris Watts

 

[TAJ Simmons]

Thanks for reporting back with your findings - This will help all powerpoint
users.

TAJ

 

[Alec Stonehouse]

It is definitely the same on horizontal 'crawls'. I had to make a list of
names crawl right to left across the screen.

The maximum it would let me was 2 screen widths, then it would truncate. I
ended up making three objects chase each other in sequence, very fiddly.

Hope there is a fix for this.


Yours optimistically

Alec

 

[Chris Watts]

Try gradually reducing the height of picture or whatever you are using and
see what happens. Please report back your findings here.

Chris

 

[Lucy Thomson]

Hi Chris

I managed to make it work with a picture wider than the screen by sticking
it through Photoshop elements and making it 72 dpi (even though it already
was). It was one of the standard sample pictures (002_2A.jpg) and it ended
up at 60 cm (h) by 40 cm (w).

So it appears PowerPoint is fussy. But it's not clear about what. And it
seems to depend on the image. But my advice to fellow PowerPointers is try
sticking it through photo editing software and saving at 72 dpi, or making
it narrower than the slide or use images only twice the size of the slide.


Lucy