panning through long photos

[Steve]

Using PPT2003, I am attempting to pan through a very long panaramic photo
(jpg) using a straight-line motion path. I have slowed it down to an
appropriate speed. I am finding that the path works to an extent, but a
good deal of the picture (8000 pixels wide by 768 high) is missing - it
shows up as white and is never seen onscreen, though the path is drawn to
reveal the entire photo. what's going on here?

I also once found a similar problem when trying to motion-path through a
very long text-box....hmmm...... is there a limitation to powerpoint here?
If so, why?

Thanks,
Steve

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

Using PPT2003, I am attempting to pan through a very long panaramic photo
(jpg) using a straight-line motion path. I have slowed it down to an
appropriate speed. I am finding that the path works to an extent, but a
good deal of the picture (8000 pixels wide by 768 high) is missing - it
shows up as white and is never seen onscreen, though the path is drawn to
reveal the entire photo. what's going on here?

I also once found a similar problem when trying to motion-path through a
very long text-box....hmmm...... is there a limitation to powerpoint here?
If so, why?

Thanks,
Steve

I believe this is a bug in PPT.

Glen? Oh Glen! Wakies! Wakies! (He's in Australia so we have to talk funny
and yell).

He'd know of a workaround if anybody does.

 

[Kathy Jacobs]

My brain isn't thinking straight, but it seems to recall that this is one of
the one and a half times the size of the slide things (like the scroll from
bottom or the credits animation). Does it work any better if you use two
motion paths - the first moving it halfway and then the other set to go
after previous and move it the rest of the way?

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[Glen Millar]

I also once found a similar problem when trying to motion-path through a

I believe this is a bug in PPT.

Glen? Oh Glen! Wakies! Wakies! (He's in Australia so we have to talk
funny
and yell).

He'd know of a workaround if anybody does.

<Yawn>

G'Day,

Yep. I saw this last year in San Diego when I was bragging to someone and it
all fell in a heap. Apart from vba (and why bother! <vbg>), you will get a
white screen when the image runs out of, well, that is when PowerPoint
"thinks" it has shown enough image. I'd imagine someone decided that images
will be so big and that's it. But dunno.

Anyway, I got around it by duplicating the image into two images exactly the
same, then cropping the left one half way to the middle from the right, and
cropping the right one half way from the right to the middle. Then place
them both side by side. You have two images that will join in the middle to
look like one. And PowerPoint seems to treat them like two separate images
and displays them.

Regards,

Glen

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

Sweet!

Gdonya. ;-)