Play 4:3 PPT on Wide Screen without Distortion

[Jeffery]

As the 16:9 HDTVs and LCD monitors become more and more popular in our
life, how to play the 4:3 PPT presentations in full screen mode on
these new babies without distortion is a big problem to many people.
It seems impossible to make it on the face, but how about if we try to
add something to fill the blank part of the screen. Please follow me,
I'll show you step by step.

Assume we have a 16:9 wide screen, and try to imagine a rectangular of
which the width is 16 inches and the height is 9 inches. The
rectangular comprises two rectangle regions, one is the gray on the
left, and the other is the white on the right. The white part
represents the original presentation, while the gray part stands for
the blank part of the screen. Be sure, if we play a presentation on a
HDTV it will not be displayed like this, but two black (or gray) bars
(known as letterbox bar ) on the left and right sides of the screen.
Here, we just concern the layout. What we should do now is to add
something to replace the gray part. Before I experienced PPT to flash
conversion tools, I have no idea what is appropriate for the little
gray.

Articulate Presentater, Wondershare PPT2Flash Professional, FlashPoint
and Pointecast Publisher are powerful tools to convert PPT
presentations to flash-based ones. Articulate has said they would
announce a new version of Presenter that supports PowerPoint 2007
before April, but until now, it's not available. Wondershare PPT2Flash
Professional and Flash Point have released the new version that
support PowerPoint 2007, and they do able to convert .pptx files, but
only PPT2Flash Pro can do it well (most SmartArts converted by
FlashPoint are in terrible condition). Here, take PPT2Flash
Professional for example to show how to use this kind of tools to
solve our problem.

Firstly, after installed PPT2Flash Professional (the version I
installed is 4.1.0 Beta, it's available for free), open the
presentation in PowerPoint, we can find PPT2Flash on the menu bar,
click the cascade menu, choose Player Templates, in Player we could
see the player's frame. In the full style mode, there is a panel at
the left (there is another template that display the panel on the
right) of our slide. It is exactly what we need. With this panel a 4:3
presentation becomes a 16:9 presentation (maybe not excatly 16:9
proportion, but much better).

Then, let's have a look at what we have on this panel, Company logo;
Author Info, which includes E-mail, Bio, Name, Photo; Toolbar,
including Flash Title, Attachments, Notes; Control Bar. Users can
manually set which items will be displayed. After personalized the
player template, publish the presentation, we get a flash presentation
with 16:9 aspect ratio.

Now we can play the presentation on 16:9 wide screens by setting its
aspect-ratio control to Stretch or Full.

Resource box:
Wondershare PPT2Flash Pro, http://www.sameshow.com/powerpoint-to-flash-pro.php?sid=6
FlashPoint: http://www.flashdemo.net
Articulate Presentater: http://www.articulate.com/product/presenter.php?sid=6
PointCast: http://www.pointecast.com/products/index.html

 

[Ute Simon]

Please stop advertising for Wondershare products. The solution needs a very
few words: Open a new presentation, set the slide size to a 16:9 format
(built-in in PowerPoint 2007) and copy the slide contents into the new
presentation. Big advantage: It is still editable!

 

[Guest]

I think it is helpful to me for I'm using PowerPoint 2003
Thank you very much!

 

[Zellhunter]

Please stop advertising for Wondershare products. The solution needs a very
few words: Open a new presentation, set the slide size to a 16:9 format
(built-in in PowerPoint 2007) and copy the slide contents into the new
presentation. Big advantage: It is still editable!

Simon's solutions does work, and is easier than Jeffery's. but it
stretches my original one, yes it does. my original ppt layout turns
to mess!! sorry, I'd like to try those software and see what happend.

 

[info]

As the 16:9 HDTVs and LCD monitors become more and more popular in our
life, how to play the 4:3 PPT presentations in full screen mode on
these new babies without distortion is a big problem to many people.
It seems impossible to make it on the face, but how about if we try to
add something to fill the blank part of the screen. Please follow me,
I'll show you step by step.

Assume we have a 16:9 wide screen, and try to imagine a rectangular of
which the width is 16 inches and the height is 9 inches. The
rectangular comprises two rectangle regions, one is the gray on the
left, and the other is the white on the right. The white part
represents the original presentation, while the gray part stands for
the blank part of the screen. Be sure, if we play a presentation on a
HDTV it will not be displayed like this, but two black (or gray) bars
(known as letterbox bar ) on the left and right sides of the screen.
Here, we just concern the layout. What we should do now is to add
something to replace the gray part. Before I experienced PPT to flash
conversion tools, I have no idea what is appropriate for the little
gray.

Articulate Presentater, WondersharePPT2FlashProfessional, FlashPoint
and Pointecast Publisher are powerful tools to convert PPT
presentations to flash-based ones. Articulate has said they would
announce a new version of Presenter that supports PowerPoint 2007
before April, but until now, it's not available. WondersharePPT2Flash
Professional and Flash Point have released the new version that
support PowerPoint 2007, and they do able to convert .pptx files, but
onlyPPT2FlashPro can do it well (most SmartArts converted by
FlashPoint are in terrible condition). Here, takePPT2Flash
Professional for example to show how to use this kind of tools to
solve our problem.

Firstly, after installedPPT2FlashProfessional (the version I
installed is 4.1.0 Beta, it's available for free), open the
presentation in PowerPoint, we can findPPT2Flashon the menu bar,
click the cascade menu, choose Player Templates, in Player we could
see the player's frame. In the full style mode, there is a panel at
the left (there is another template that display the panel on the
right) of our slide. It is exactly what we need. With this panel a 4:3
presentation becomes a 16:9 presentation (maybe not excatly 16:9
proportion, but much better).

Then, let's have a look at what we have on this panel, Company logo;
Author Info, which includes E-mail, Bio, Name, Photo; Toolbar,
including Flash Title, Attachments, Notes; Control Bar. Users can
manually set which items will be displayed. After personalized the
player template, publish the presentation, we get a flash presentation
with 16:9 aspect ratio.

Now we can play the presentation on 16:9 wide screens by setting its
aspect-ratio control to Stretch or Full.

Resource box:
WondersharePPT2FlashPro,http://www.sameshow.com/powerpoint-to-flash-pro.php?sid=6
FlashPoint:http://www.flashdemo.net
Articulate Presentater:http://www.articulate.com/product/presenter.php?sid=6
PointCast:http://www.pointecast.com/products/index.html

The conaito PowerPoint-to-Flash SDK provides you a smart and effective
solution for converting PowerPoint presentations into an easy-to-use
Online-Flash-presentation and professional Flash content authoring
like Trade shows, Conferences, E-learning, Researching, Studies, E-
cards, Fun content and many more!

A free Trial download is available:
http://www.conaito.com/ppt2flash_ueberblick.asp

Potential applications of conaito PPT2Flash SDK:

· Online Collaboration. Applications for online sharing of PowerPoint
presentations.
· Web-based Authoring Tool which nearly works like Macromedia Breeze®.
· Learning Management Systems (LMS)
· Web Seminar. Application for presentation of PowerPoint slide shows
(converted to Flash).
· Desktop applications, say authoring tools.
· Web server, say presentation server platforms.
· And much more!

Key Features

· Convert Microsoft PowerPoint® 2000/XP/2003 to Macromedia Flash®
· Convert PPT files to single SWF files for each slide
· NEW! command line edition without additional fee
· NEW! Convert a PPT file in a single selfruning Flash presentation
without need a additional player
· NEW! Converts slides from-to single slides specified by slide
Numbers
· NEW! Converts single slides specified by slide Numbers
· NEW! Audio (MP3) support for single SWF output
· Cross-Platform and Browser Playback
· Slide Thumbnails
· Keep Animated and Static Effects of Slides
· Presenter Notes
· Customise presentation player view (source code included)
· All information in XML
· Multilingual assistance
NEW! Optimization for East Asian and Arabian languages
· Low capacity and light weight (output files are of small and light
size)
· Error handling (custom exceptions provides detailed info about
problems during conversion)
· Events are available for notification of conversion engine state
change and conversion errors
· Conversion can be aborted at any time
· AutoShape types: msoShapeCircularArrow and msoShapeBlockArc
· Gradient colors support: msoGradientPresetColors,
msoGradientOneColor, msoGradientTwoColors
· Paragraph bullets: ppBulletMixed, ppBulletNumbered, ppBulletPicture,
ppBulletUnnumbered
· Slide background: msoFillPicture, msoFillSolid, msoFillTextured,
msoFillPatterned, msoFillGradient
· Paragraph alignment: left, center, right, justify
· Underling, italic, bold fonts
· Completely commented samples for various programming languages
· .NET framework as well as COM support.
· Sample source code for VB.NET, C#, ASP.NET, ASP, VB 6.0 and Delphi
7.0

Please, don't hesitate trying our PowerPoint-to-Flash SDK at once and
get yourself, as well as your customers, the exciting experience of
easy, fast and high quality standard applications which can convert
PowerPoint into Flash.

Development environment

The conaito PPT2Flash SDK runs on Windows and also includes a .NET
interface that can be used in any .NET programming language like C# or
VB.NET. You can use it with your web applications developed in ASP.NET
as well. Conaito PPT2Flash SDK also includes a COM interface that can
be used from any programming language that supports COM automation,
like C++, Visual Basic, Delphi, ASP, JSP, PHP, JavaScript, VBScript,
etc.

The contents of conaito PPT2Flash SDK and the supported development
environments include all of the necessary software components for
building systems based on conaito PPT2Flash SDK including documented
operational software applications, player and examples (with source
code), explanations as well as necessary service programs, libraries
and components.

The supported development environments include:

· Visual Basic .NET
· Visual C++ .NET
· Visual C# .NET
· ASP.NET
· ASP, JSP, PHP (COM)
· JavaScript/HTML (COM)
· Visual Basic (COM)
· Visual C++ (COM)
· Borland Delphi (COM)
· and all development environments with COM and .NET framework support

End user system requirements:

Operating system: Win2000 or higher
..NET Framework 2.0 (.NET Framework 1.1 support coming soon)
Microsoft PowerPoint® 2000/XP/2003
Macromedia Flash® 8 OCX
A web browser and the Flash player.

* Macromedia Flash®. and Macromedia Breeze® are registered trademarks
of Macromedia.
* Microsoft PowerPoint® is a registered trademark of Microsoft.

We hope you enjoy the new conaito PPT2Flash SDK for .NET - the
Powerful and rapid PowerPoint to Flash converting solution for your
applications and Websites.

A free Trial download is available:
http://www.conaito.com/ppt2flash_ueberblick.asp

 

[info]

As the 16:9 HDTVs and LCD monitors become more and more popular in our
life, how to play the 4:3 PPT presentations in full screen mode on
these new babies without distortion is a big problem to many people.
It seems impossible to make it on the face, but how about if we try to
add something to fill the blank part of the screen. Please follow me,
I'll show you step by step.

Assume we have a 16:9 wide screen, and try to imagine a rectangular of
which the width is 16 inches and the height is 9 inches. The
rectangular comprises two rectangle regions, one is the gray on the
left, and the other is the white on the right. The white part
represents the original presentation, while the gray part stands for
the blank part of the screen. Be sure, if we play a presentation on a
HDTV it will not be displayed like this, but two black (or gray) bars
(known as letterbox bar ) on the left and right sides of the screen.
Here, we just concern the layout. What we should do now is to add
something to replace the gray part. Before I experienced PPT to flash
conversion tools, I have no idea what is appropriate for the little
gray.

Articulate Presentater, WondersharePPT2FlashProfessional, FlashPoint
and Pointecast Publisher are powerful tools to convert PPT
presentations to flash-based ones. Articulate has said they would
announce a new version of Presenter that supports PowerPoint 2007
before April, but until now, it's not available. WondersharePPT2Flash
Professional and Flash Point have released the new version that
support PowerPoint 2007, and they do able to convert .pptx files, but
onlyPPT2FlashPro can do it well (most SmartArts converted by
FlashPoint are in terrible condition). Here, takePPT2Flash
Professional for example to show how to use this kind of tools to
solve our problem.

Firstly, after installedPPT2FlashProfessional (the version I
installed is 4.1.0 Beta, it's available for free), open the
presentation in PowerPoint, we can findPPT2Flashon the menu bar,
click the cascade menu, choose Player Templates, in Player we could
see the player's frame. In the full style mode, there is a panel at
the left (there is another template that display the panel on the
right) of our slide. It is exactly what we need. With this panel a 4:3
presentation becomes a 16:9 presentation (maybe not excatly 16:9
proportion, but much better).

Then, let's have a look at what we have on this panel, Company logo;
Author Info, which includes E-mail, Bio, Name, Photo; Toolbar,
including Flash Title, Attachments, Notes; Control Bar. Users can
manually set which items will be displayed. After personalized the
player template, publish the presentation, we get a flash presentation
with 16:9 aspect ratio.

Now we can play the presentation on 16:9 wide screens by setting its
aspect-ratio control to Stretch or Full.

Resource box:
WondersharePPT2FlashPro,http://www.sameshow.com/powerpoint-to-flash-pro.php?sid=6
FlashPoint:http://www.flashdemo.net
Articulate Presentater:http://www.articulate.com/product/presenter.php?sid=6
PointCast:http://www.pointecast.com/products/index.html

conaito Technologies Introduces Powerful and Rapid
PowerPoint-to-Flash converting SDK - Release v1.4
Software Product: conaito PPT2Flash SDK
Author: conaito Technologies
Web: http://www.conaito.com
Email: (e-mail address removed)

conaito PPT2Flash SDK - create. convert. share.
Powerful and rapid PowerPoint to Flash converting solution for your
applications and Websites

With a high performance presentation you are well on the way to make a
success of your product. Microsoft PowerPoint® is a famous tool for
creating presentations. More than 90 per cent of total presentations
all over the world were created by using of Microsoft PowerPoint®. But
these presenting world-wide by efficient and fast way requires the
well suited Internet format of Macromedia Flash®.

The conaito PPT2Flash SDK (Software Developing Kit) combines both
fortes and makes also opportunities to integrate these in existing
applications by an easy, fast and economical way for developers of
Authoring Applications, Learning Management Systems (LMS) and Web
applications, or makes opportunities to offer new applications, Web
applications or Web services.

Our PowerPoint-to-Flash SDK provides you a smart and effective
solution for converting PowerPoint presentations into an easy-to-use
Online-Flash-presentation and professional Flash content authoring
like Trade shows, Conferences, E-learning, Researching, Studies, E-
cards, Fun content and many more!

The converted Flash presentation works and looks like your PowerPoint
presentation PLUS all the advantages of a Flash file (already
available in 98% of all Web browsers):
· Easy online-distribution or CD
· Greater Accessibility
· Extensive Compatibility
· Low file size
· Resolution friendly
· A safety and tamper proof format
· Streaming technology
· Viewing with or without Player

Potential applications of conaito PPT2Flash SDK:

· Online Collaboration. Applications for online sharing of PowerPoint
presentations.
· Web-based Authoring Tool which nearly works like Macromedia Breeze®.
· Learning Management Systems (LMS)
· Web Seminar. Application for presentation of PowerPoint slide shows
(converted to Flash).
· Desktop applications, say authoring tools.
· Web server, say presentation server platforms.
· And much more!

Key Features

· Convert Microsoft PowerPoint® 2000/XP/2003/2007 to Macromedia Flash®
· Sample source code for VB.NET, C#, ASP.NET, ASP, VB 6.0 and Delphi
7.0
· Convert PPT files to single SWF files for each slide
· NEW! in v1.4! Navigation support for single SWF output (embedded
into swf - prev/next slide/stop/play buttons)
· NEW! in v1.4! Image Generation of Slides (GIF, JPG, BMP) with size
support
· NEW! command line edition without additional fee
· Convert a PPT file in a single selfruning Flash presentation without
need a additional player
· Converts slides from-to single slides specified by slide Numbers
· Converts single slides specified by slide Numbers
· NEW! Linked Audio (MP3) support for single SWF output
· NEW! in v1.4! Embedded Audio (MP3) support for single SWF output
· Cross-Platform and Browser Playback
· Slide Thumbnails
· Keep Animated and Static Effects of Slides
· Presenter Notes
· Customise presentation player view (source code included)
· All information in XML
· Multilingual assistance (Optimization for East Asian and Arabian
languages)
· Low capacity and light weight (output files are of small and light
size)
· Error handling (custom exceptions provides detailed info about
problems during conversion)
· Events are available for notification of conversion engine state
change and conversion errors
· Conversion can be aborted at any time
· AutoShape types: msoShapeCircularArrow and msoShapeBlockArc
· Gradient colors support: msoGradientPresetColors,
msoGradientOneColor, msoGradientTwoColors
· Paragraph bullets: ppBulletMixed, ppBulletNumbered, ppBulletPicture,
ppBulletUnnumbered
· Slide background: msoFillPicture, msoFillSolid, msoFillTextured,
msoFillPatterned, msoFillGradient
· Paragraph alignment: left, center, right, justify
· Underling, italic, bold fonts
· Completely commented samples for various programming languages
· .NET framework as well as COM support.

Please, don't hesitate trying our PowerPoint-to-Flash SDK at once and
get yourself, as well as your customers, the exciting experience of
easy, fast and high quality standard applications which can convert
PowerPoint into Flash.

Conaito PPT2Flash SDK is written in Microsoft .NET and provides the
documentation, samples and related libraries you need to integrate
with other applications or systems. The applications you develop with
this edition of the SDK can run on Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows
2003 and Windows Vista.

Development environment

The conaito PPT2Flash SDK runs on Windows and also includes a .NET
interface that can be used in any .NET programming language like C# or
VB.NET. You can use it with your web applications developed in ASP.NET
as well. Conaito PPT2Flash SDK also includes a COM interface that can
be used from any programming language that supports COM automation,
like C++, Visual Basic, Delphi, ASP, JSP, PHP, JavaScript, VBScript,
etc.

The contents of conaito PPT2Flash SDK and the supported development
environments include all of the necessary software components for
building systems based on conaito PPT2Flash SDK including documented
operational software applications, player and examples (with source
code), explanations as well as necessary service programs, libraries
and components.

The supported development environments include:

· Visual Basic .NET
· Visual C++ .NET
· Visual C# .NET
· ASP.NET
· ASP, JSP, PHP (COM)
· JavaScript/HTML (COM)
· Visual Basic (COM)
· Visual C++ (COM)
· Borland Delphi (COM)
· and all development environments with COM and .NET framework support

End user system requirements:

Operating system: Win2000 or higher
..NET Framework 2.0 (.NET Framework 1.1 support coming soon)
Microsoft PowerPoint® 2000/XP/2003/2007
Macromedia Flash® 8 OCX
A web browser and the Flash player.

* Macromedia Flash®. and Macromedia Breeze® are registered trademarks
of Macromedia.
* Microsoft PowerPoint® is a registered trademark of Microsoft.

We hope you enjoy the new conaito PPT2Flash SDK - the Powerful and
rapid PowerPoint to Flash converting solution for your applications
and Websites.

conaito Technologies