Pixels instead of cm or inches

[AlessandraC]

is there anyway to make PPT2007 work in pixels instead of cm or inches?

[Steve]

I am sure others will explain this more authoritatively, but because
powerpoint generally scales it's image to the resolution of the monitor that
your computer outputs to, setting up your show in pixels rather than inches
is somewhat meaningless. For that matter, referring to the frame size in
inches doesn't really relate to anything in reality either (to MVPs: is this
right?)

Steve

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[Steve Rindsberg]

In article <43c16685-1151-44ec-aa45-

a9c09a...@e23g2000yqd.googlegroups.com>, AlessandraC wrote:
> is there anyway to make PPT2007 work in pixels instead of cm or inches?

What the other Steve said has a vote from this Steve.

But working in pixels sounds like a possible solution to a specific
problem.

What's the actual problem you're trying to solve?

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[AlessandraC]

On 16 Nov, 20:10, Steve Rindsberg <ab...@localhost.com> wrote:
> In article <43c16685-1151-44ec-aa45-

graphics professionals use pixels to size pictures in photoshop, when
they ask me what size I need the picture to place in a slide, they
want pixels.

[Steve Rindsberg]

> > What's the actual problem you're trying to solve?
> >
> > ==============================
> > PPT Frequently Asked Questionshttp://www.pptfaq.com/
> >
> > PPTools add-ins for PowerPointhttp://www.pptools.com/
>
> graphics professionals use pixels to size pictures in photoshop, when
> they ask me what size I need the picture to place in a slide, they
> want pixels.

OK, good. In that case, you need to know two things:

1) How much of the slide the picture will occupy in PowerPoint?

2) At what resolution will the slide be shown (assuming that you'll be
projecting slides; if you're going to print, the rules will be a bit
different)?

Assuming you'll project at 1024x768 (the most common setting with projectors)
and the image is full-slide, you'd want it to be 1024x768 (plus maybe a bit
extra in case you need to crop/resize).

If the image occupies half the screen horizontally and full screen
vertically, then you'd want 512 x 768.

And so on.

Again, assuming 1024 x 768 and you're working with a standard 10" wide slide,
you know that 1024/10 = 102.4 dpi

Knowing that, you can draw a rectangle where you want the image to go and
multiply each of its dimensions (in inches) by 102.4 to get the theoretical
pixel-perfect size. Personally, I'd fudge a bit. Multiply by 120 instead.
That gives PPT a bit of extra data to work with when it antialiases the
image, and gives you a bit of headroom in case you need to resize/crop.

And rather than trying to relay all that to every artist I work with, I'd be
more likely to ask for an image at 2048 x 1536 and do any needed downsampling
myself before popping the image into PPT.

[TAJ Simmons]

What Steve R said but also

A graphics tutorial on the same subject
http://www.awesomebackgrounds.com/powerpointgraphics.htm

Cheers
TAJ Simmons
PowerPoint Master

http://www.awesomebackgrounds.com
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powerpoint backgrounds, free samples, ppt tutorials...

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