How safe is Powerpoint for Kiosk?

[aaronshort]

Hi there,

Basically my situation is that im building a powerpoint 'kiosk' style show,
approximately reaching 1600 slides, with most slides containing
high-resolution photos.

What im trying to find out is whether Powerpoint is a stable enough program
to run something like this for or should I be looking in to other
alternatives to do this instead.

Things I need to consider are the fact that the PPS will eventually be a
good 3 or 4 gigs to run, and whether theres any advantage to building it on
2007 compared to 2003.

Any help provided would really be appreciated.

Thanks

-aaron

 

[David M. Marcovitz]

First, why are you using high-resolution photos? Your computer won't be
able to display photos at a very high resolution. However, 1600 slides,
even with normal resolution photos, is likely to push the limits of
PowerPoint and your computer.
--David

 

[aaronshort]

thanks for response david.

sorry by hi-res i mean about 1680 wide, so maybe not soo hi-res.

when powerpoint opens a file does it store the whole thing in RAM or just
open things as it goes?

obviously if its going to be 1600 slides worth of stuff then my 2gigs of ram
probably wont be too happy.

sighhhh, i dont wanna learn how to use flash!!

 

[Austin Myers]

Can you be a little more specific on what you want to do? Is there user
navigation, do the slides simply move ahead on their own, are you using
animations, text, etc?



Austin Myers
MS PowerPoint MVP Team

Provider of PFCPro, PFCMedia and PFCExpress
www.playsforcertain.com

 

[David M. Marcovitz]

I don't think that PowerPoint loads the whole thng into memory at once,
but a file that big is likely to push the limits. I often hear
complaints in this group of PowerPoints that are VERY large not
performing too well, and the suggestions are generally to compress
pictures and/or divide the presentation into separate presentations.
--David

 

[ChrisHarrington]

You could convert your PPT to flash and deploy those to kiosk