Re: Slideshow question

Bert Hyman wrote:
In news:gp8sgk$nj6$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx John McWilliams
<jpmcw@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Why not size the images to the exact proportions and orientation of
the projector at its precise resolution?

The OP said he's doing a PowerPoint presentation. A PP slide will
always have borders and the like which eat a bit of real estate.

Only if the designer of the presentation wants them to. The entire area of the slide can be used for whatever content one is displaying.

If you're getting borders odds are that you have the aspect ratio of the slides set to something different from what the monitor is displaying. By default Powerpoint slides fill a 4:3 screen--there are presets (in the latest version anyway) for 16:9 and 16:10 in addition to the usual gamut of paper sizes, and if none of those do it for you you can set a custom size.

[I'm not a PP wizard; there might be a way to put raw images into a PP
presentation that I don't know about]

If there's a codec on the system for the format in which they're stored it treats them like any other image (assuming of course that the codec is designed accoriding to the rules for Windows codecs and is not proprietary to a particular application).

If you do an "insert object" and "from file" it will even use a third party application to open and display the file (assuming that the application has been written with the proper "hooks" to allow it to be used in that fashion).

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