Problem w/ Format Picture (size)
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From: John Woram John on 5 Feb 2010 09:05 I'm starting a new PP 2003 presentation -- In Slide Show/Set Up Show, Slide show resolution is set to 1024x768. Now, I insert a Picture from file (1024x768 jpg image). The image comes in centered, but at 640x480. So, I left-click image, open Format Picture option, select Size tab, check "Best scale for slide show" and change resolution from 640x480 to 1024x768. Image is now correct size, but partially deflected out of work space. So, I go to Position tab and move the left corner to 0,0. At last, the image is properly sized and placed. But when I add a new slide, PP has "forgotten" all of my adjustments and I have to start all over again. So I'm wondering: Is there any way to get PP to stop shrinking my images? That is, just insert them into the presentation at whatever size they are.
From: Steve Rindsberg on 5 Feb 2010 14:43 In article <54F8CD33-F18E-487D-A63A-D0215463BC96(a)microsoft.com>, John Woram wrote: > I'm starting a new PP 2003 presentation -- In Slide Show/Set Up Show, Slide > show resolution is set to 1024x768. Now, I insert a Picture from file > (1024x768 jpg image). The image comes in centered, but at 640x480. So, I > left-click image, open Format Picture option, select Size tab, check "Best > scale for slide show" and change resolution from 640x480 to 1024x768. Image > is now correct size, but partially deflected out of work space. So, I go to > Position tab and move the left corner to 0,0. At last, the image is properly > sized and placed. > > But when I add a new slide, PP has "forgotten" all of my adjustments and I > have to start all over again. So I'm wondering: Is there any way to get PP to > stop shrinking my images? That is, just insert them into the presentation at > whatever size they are. The resolution you pick in Slide Show Setup has no effect on the way PPT sizes images that you insert. The logic works more like this: You create slides You start the slide show and PPT sizes everything on the slide to fit the resolution of the current monitor you're showing the presentation on. If you happen to have set a resolution in Slide Show Setup, PPT changes the resolution of the monitor TO that resolution prior to starting the show. Because you might display the same show on different monitors set to various resolutions, there's no universal way to ensure that the images are displayed at any particular size in pixels. If you *know* you'll always be displaying slides at, say, 1024x768, then make sure the slide size is proportional to that and insert your 1024x768 images then size them to fill the slide. ============================== PPT Frequently Asked Questions http://www.pptfaq.com/ PPTools add-ins for PowerPoint http://www.pptools.com/
From: John Woram on 5 Feb 2010 16:34 Steve, thanks for the feedback, and I guess I'm still missing the point on what's going on here. If I view a 1024 x 768 image in any app except PowerPoint, it occupies the expected amount of screen area. Since I've got PP set for 1024 x 768, I figure my image should occupy the entire work space. But every image gets inserted at 640 x 480. Seems odd (to me, at least) that I have to use the Format/Size tab on every image that I insert to get it to the right size. But if I understand you correctly, that is indeed what I have to do. If so, that's a bit of a pain. John
From: Steve Rindsberg on 5 Feb 2010 23:12 In article <B973154F-6276-49F7-B0A0-E6DA9CD00AB9(a)microsoft.com>, John Woram wrote: > Steve, thanks for the feedback, and I guess I'm still missing the point on > what's going on here. If I view a 1024 x 768 image in any app except > PowerPoint, it occupies the expected amount of screen area. I'd have different expectations of different apps. What do you expect, exactly? Maybe there's some way to bend PPT to your will. ;-) >Since I've got PP > set for 1024 x 768, I figure my image should occupy the entire work space. No. What you set it for there has no effect. Again, that setting tells PPT "When you start a slide show, set the user's display resolution to 1024x768 and fill that with each slide. > But every image gets inserted at 640 x 480. Seems odd (to me, at least) that > I have to use the Format/Size tab on every image that I insert to get it to > the right size. But if I understand you correctly, that is indeed what I have > to do. If so, that's a bit of a pain. I'm not clear on exactly what you want it to do. If you want each image to fill the frame, you can do a couple of things easily enough: - Drag the image up/left until its upper left corner snaps to the upper left corner of the slide, then drag the image's lower right corner handle until the lower right corner of the image snaps to the lower right corner of the slide. Takes about as long to write that and get it straight as it'll take you to do five images or so. - Use our free PPTools StarterSet add-in to turn it into a one-click deal. TIP: Resize images to fit the slide http://www.pptools.com/starterset/FAQ00031.htm ============================== PPT Frequently Asked Questions http://www.pptfaq.com/ PPTools add-ins for PowerPoint http://www.pptools.com/
From: John Woram on 6 Feb 2010 08:47
> What do you expect, exactly? Maybe there's some way to bend PPT to your will. ;-) I was expecting PP to behave exactly like every other application that I know of (for image display, that is). If I insert a 1024 x 768 image, it should be inserted at those dimensions, NOT shrunk to something smaller. If you want each image to fill the frame, you can do a couple of things easily enough: Drag the image up/left until its upper left corner snaps to the upper left corner of the slide, then ... Yes, that's what I've been doing. But as mentioned above, I was hunting for a way to persuade PP to just insert each image at its own size -- NOT shrink it so that I have to resize it, just to get it back to its original dimensions. To me, that seems reasonable enough. I mean, if I go to the trouble to create an image that's, say, 1024 x 768 (or whatever), why does PP assume that what I really want is something smaller than that? Anyway, I'll try the PPTolls add-in Thanks again, John |