Viewport In PowerPoint 2003

[Mark Vande Brake]

Is there a method or add-in that would allow me to treat a single slide in
Powerpoint like a viewport, or camera, and move it along a diagram or map, a
larger object or group of objects, much larger than the slide frame itself,
allowing for a pause while I interact with, say, a hyperlink or pop-up
embedded in the map or diagrahm, and then continue on a complex predefined
path till the path ends?

The basic ability is there, because I can build a collection of objects much
larger than the frame. But providing motion is difficult under those
conditions because you have to move the entire collection. Since the frame is
smaller, it would be easier to map the motion by moving the frame,and
specifying pauses at those end points. By chnging the reletive size of the
frame, it is similar to zooming in and out as well. One slide, many differen
views.

Is it possible to write an add-in that could assist in mapping motion in
this manner and then passing that data to the presentation?

 

[Kathy Jacobs]

I think you might be able to do something like this with a series of
triggered animations on a full covering shape. In other words, if you create
a shape that covers the slide area, with a gap in it to show just what you
want, you could then move that shape around using triggered motion path
animations.

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[Mark Vande Brake]

I appreciate your response. I kind of see what you're saying, but I'm
thinking of something along the same lines but different.

I want to build an outline for instance. Boxes and subgroups, etc. I then
want, through the use of an object sliding left the appearance of the slide
moving right, Through the relative motion of the object under the slide
moving, it appears that the entire slide frame is moving along a given path.
This way the viewer navigates along my outline, seeing only one or two nodes
at a time. By varying the speed of motion, the direction of motion, and the
relative size of the frame, it should be possible to take the viewer for a
ride along any object you create. Since ppowerpoint retains its ability to
embed pictures, text, graphics, movies, within the objects, then when you
pull up to a node(as it were) you could then interact and then move on. You
become a tour director for a virtual group of objects.

The capability already exists, but because the program was designed for
smaller objects relative to a frame rather than a smaller frame relative to
objects, its really hard, but not impossible to develop complex motion paths
to support this technique.