Topic awaiting preservation: Powerpoint

Oy.

I am making a number of pictures for powerpoint, but I don't have the program and I need to know the resolution to make these pictures.

It will be projected, like... video but it is not video... so do "safe titles" exist for PP?

Well, making them at a normal screen ratio should be fine, as a PP slide is that same ratio. If I have to do this I do 'em at (1500*whatever the number is) and size them down.

(You're talking about a background picture, or one that fills up the whole slide, right?)

[This message has been edited by counterfeitbacon (edited 06-01-2003).]

Same as any old picture you want to display on a monitor Izz man. You just need to know what the rez of your video projector is so PP doesn't blow your images all out of proportion to fit them on the screen.

:::krets.net:::

The picture is the slide, and is meant to fill the entire screen.

Standard DV video rez is 720x480.

mmm... good idea Krets, that was what I was wondering. I have not done this before and was thinking there was a standard size.

I'll try and check with the projecter... somehow.

Yeah, you don't have to worry about title safe zones for digital stuff and as far as I now, all projectors that you hook up to a PC are digital, since the output signal is always digital. Unless you?re going to be using some kind of analogue projector connected through s-video, but even then any video card with s-video output can scale the size of that output through software control.

If you can't source the resolution, just stick to a standard 4:3 ratio and all should be fine. Often digital projectors can use several different resolutions, if this is the case then it'll depend on the screen resolution of the machine you run the presentation on.

[This message has been edited by Dracusis (edited 06-01-2003).]