Bigger than 56" by 56" custom slide size?

[Guest]

Anyone know how to make larger formats? What we need is around 36" tall but
like 100" wide. Ideas?

 

[TAJ Simmons]

george

see
Print posters or other large format output
http://www.rdpslides.com/pptfaq/FAQ00537.htm

Cheers
TAJ Simmons
microsoft powerpoint mvp

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[Guest]

TAJ Simmons,

Thanks for trying. My tech needs roughly 34" high by one hundred" long.
Custom pages are limited to 56".

Any other ideas, please let me know!

Thanks, George

 

[Sonia]

TAJ gave you a link. If you apply the information in that link to your
situation, you can create it a slide approximately 19" X 56" and then print on
34" X 100" paper and tell the printer to scale to paper size, you'll have what
you want.
--

Sonia Coleman
Microsoft PowerPoint MVP Team
Autorun Software, Templates and Tutorials
http://www.soniacoleman.com

 

[TAJ Simmons]

Any other ideas, please let me know!
George, if you read the page, it explains how you make a page in powerpoint
to the same proportions...

For example
- make a custom page size in powerpoint that is 3.4 inches high by 10 inches
long.
- then when it's time to print....you get the printer driver (print >
properties) to scale to fit or some printer drivers work by

App page size = This size
Print to = This size

Cheers
TAJ

 

[Guest]

Sonia,

Tech says that won't work because the professional (not me) insists on
images at 'original' scale. So we would have to create a half-scale original
and then scale it back up again. I wish these guys would learn to use ascii
data...

Thanks anyway,

George

 

[Sonia]

Then PowerPoint is not the application to use, though I don't know what ASCII
has to do with it. PowerPoint certainly wasn't designed to create posters
although people try to use it for a lot of things it isn't intended for. I
would recommend that you either use an image editing program like Photoshop, or
look for an application designed to create posters.

 

[TAJ Simmons]

George,

Tech says that won't work because the professional (not me) insists on
images at 'original' scale. So we would have to create a half-scale
original
and then scale it back up again.

I can see what the Tech is getting at....if the Tech is thinking about
pixels and bitmaps and words like that.....but powerpoint will output your
poster at whatever quality the printer can print at. (Tell the tech it's all
Vectors....that'll keep 'em quiet for awhile!)

Cheers
TAJ

 

[Echo S]

Wonder what that person does when faced with a Quark file, then? I mean,
that max page size is only something lik 48"x48", yet Quark is used all the
time for poster printing. Designers just use the same scaling principle as
we'd use in PPT...