REAL fullscreen (use every pixel)

[Karl Van Houdt]

Hi all,

I spent most of the weekend searching for a solution to force powerpoint to
use every pixel on the screen.

I made my presentation on 16:9 slides (32cm*18cm), to display on a 16:9
plasma.
However, since the max res of the plasma is 1024*768, it leaves a black bar
top and down, because the graphic card of course thinks it's a 4:3 display.
I can't get my graphic card to do the job.

BUT, if powerpoint can be forced to use the real pixelarea (1024*768), then
that would be the perfect solution.
A bit like "exactfit" in flash.
Or another way to put it : do not maintain aspect ratio.

I thank everyone for their help in this matter.



Karl Van Houdt

 

[Zell]

convert it to flash, then everything solved, try ppt2flash, it's an
easy-to-use powerful tool to convert the ppt presentation to flash-
based one.
visit, http://www.sameshow.com
for more detail.

 

[Karl Van Houdt]

That's a possible solution, although I have a few issues :

will all the animations convert as well ?
how about last minute changes ?

Karl

 

[Karl Van Houdt]

Thanks for your reply.
The fact that it's a 1024*768 display doesn't make it a 4:3 display, it just
doesn't have square pixels.

The problem isn't the graphics card, it's the fact that I want to force
powerpoint output to use the exact resolution of the screen,
and thus distort the show on a regular 4:3 screen.

Karl

 

[Austin Myers]

Hi all,

I spent most of the weekend searching for a solution to force powerpoint
to use every pixel on the screen.

I made my presentation on 16:9 slides (32cm*18cm), to display on a 16:9
plasma.

I think that was a mistake.

However, since the max res of the plasma is 1024*768, it leaves a black
bar top and down, because the graphic card of course thinks it's a 4:3
display.

Hmm, that is because 1024 * 768 IS a 4:3 ratio. Your graphics card is doing
it's job properly, and it sounds like the display is too because it's
displaying your presentation just as you designed it. You are basicaly
creating the equvilant of a "letterbox" output.

Try using a standard 4:3 layout for the slide and see what happens.


Austin Myers
MS PowerPoint MVP Team

Provider of PFCMedia, PFCPro, PFCExpress
http://www.pfcmedia.com

 

[Karl Van Houdt]

appreciate your suggestions, but I have thought indeed about
resizing/remoddeling the design.
The animations aren't the problem, it's the text (and a bit the imported
flash anim, but I can probably get these to play exact fit).
If I stretch the slide size vertically, text won't resize as well. So i
would basically have to transform all my text to bitmaps, and load them
again. It's not even the file size that i'm worried about, it's the last
minute changes.

It just feels very strange to work with a program so popular, and no one 's
ever developped a tool that leaves the user two options : (1) fit to window,
or (2) maintain aspect ratio.
Still if anyone knows about this kind of tool, or has written some VBA wich
would help, please let me know.

Karl

 

[Karl Van Houdt]

You're absolutely right about soft & hardware working as it should.
But that doesn't change the fact that there should be a way to fit to window
exactly.

And of course a 4:3 design will fill the plasma display completely. But the
text looks terrible.



Karl