800 pages to many?

[Ray Smith]

We made a 4'x80' 100 Years of Powered Flight display. We would now like to
make a slide show of the .doc pages we generated. .
I have converted 9 pages and they appear to be great.

But, can or should the converted file be so large?

I want the slide show to be automatic so that it is a continuous display.
The museum personnel are all volunteers who may or may not be computer
users, therefore operation of the display must be almost automatic.

Any and all help with this project will be very much appreciated.

Ray Smith -Pacific Coast Air Museum -Volunteer

 

[B]

Hi Ray,

First things first. If you are going to use PowerPoint, you have to stop
thinking in terms of pages and documents. The slide is the thing. Think
pictures and slides, think visually.

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Second --

Sure, you can create a picture of the entire display and show the entire
display on one slide. You can also create areas, that when clicked on, link
to slides that display enlarged areas of the display.

To paste together the 800 images you have of the display will be a difficult
task. Images rarely line up perfectly and I doubt that PowerPoint is the
best tool to use for this task. I'd recommend one of the image editing
software packages (Photoshop or others, there are many out there). I'd also
recommend that you try to form panels rather than the whole display at one
time. If you make about 15 panels (each will cover about a 5' section of
the flight display), each will just about fill the screen without distortion
(stretching) when the are displayed on a monitor or projector screen.

Once you have made a panel of 50 some odd pages (photos?) that have been
pasted together (electronically, not with Elmer's) in Photoshop, create
(export) a new picture of this completed panel. You will then need to
reduce the resolution to something better suited for screen display (most
screens run between 800 and 1280 pixels wide, saving more detail than this
will just be wasted since it can not be displayed).

Now, after completing each of the 15 panels, take these new panel pictures
and again use Photoshop to paste them together and form the 'big picture'.
Again reduce the resolution to something appropriate.

Most monitors can display less than 1.3 megapixels (1280 x 1024). Most
modern cameras take pictures at higher resolutions than this. So if you put
together 800 3-megapixels photos, you will have well over a thousand times
the number of pixels you will need or be able to use.



This would be Phase I of building the PowerPoint presentation that you are
seeking.

Post back when you are ready for Phase II.

B
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