possible to have individual pages in Portrait and Landscape?

[showsomeidnow]

hi, i am using PP version 2000. Is it possible within the same
presentation to have particular pages Portrait and others Landscape? I
can't figure out how to do this at all. By default, they are ALL
Landscape. thanks all for your help.

 

[Michael Koerner]

Not in 2000. You could have portrait and a landscape presentations and link
back and forth.

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

hi, i am using PP version 2000. Is it possible within the same
presentation to have particular pages Portrait and others Landscape? I
can't figure out how to do this at all. By default, they are ALL
Landscape. thanks all for your help.

Short version: Nope.

But have a read here just the same:

Mix Portrait and Landscape slides in a presentation
http://www.pptfaq.com/FAQ00042.htm

 

[showsomeidnow]

thanks all, really kind of you. just out of interest (if i upgrade to
2003) is it possible in 2003, and is it relatively easy to do? thank
you.

 

[Rick Altman]

I don't mean to be coy or sarcastic, but unless you want to literally turn
the projector on its side, what does this really mean? A typical projector
is going to display an image on a screen that is 1024 pixels wide and 768
pixels tall. In that space, you can project any image you want. Portrait
images will be 768 pixels tall and will not fill out the entire width.
Landscap images might consume all of the width but not all of the height.

You will not be able to make a portrait image any taller than 768 pixels
unless you literally turn the projector on its side so that it casts a
larger display in the vertical direction.

Maybe I'm missing something here, but is it not that simple?






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[Steve Rindsberg]

thanks all, really kind of you. just out of interest (if i upgrade to
2003) is it possible in 2003, and is it relatively easy to do? thank
you.

No, afraid not. Nor in 2007.

Are you printing these presentations or displaying them on screen?

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

I don't mean to be coy or sarcastic, but unless you want to literally turn
the projector on its side, what does this really mean? A typical projector
is going to display an image on a screen that is 1024 pixels wide and 768
pixels tall. In that space, you can project any image you want. Portrait
images will be 768 pixels tall and will not fill out the entire width.
Landscap images might consume all of the width but not all of the height.

You will not be able to make a portrait image any taller than 768 pixels
unless you literally turn the projector on its side so that it casts a
larger display in the vertical direction.

Maybe I'm missing something here, but is it not that simple?

We have these things called "printers". They used to use them before we got
these Paperless Office things.

Paperl.... Bwah! Pardon ... I feel a laughing spell coming on. Hahah... I'll
have to finish this after it passes ... bwahahahh.... PaperleBWAHHHAHAHAHA!!!!!

 

[showsomeidnow]

steve et al. i am showing pupils some slides of film posters. the
posters which are landscape 'size' properly in PP. it's not that the
portrait film posters don't 'size' properly (they do), it's just that
a film poster that is portrait would fit better in a portrait PP page
(i think). this is why i *wanted* to choose which slide would be
landscape/portrait. thanks for all your help and suggestions. any more
because i am always willing to learn. but i think i get the gist of
what you are saying - it's not possible!

 

[Rick Altman]

Yup, unless you are intending to use that old-fashioned stuff that comes
from the bark of trees, as that dinosaur Steve R. describes, or unless you
are intending to mount the projector on its side, there really is no such
thing as portrait for projected work...



Rick A.

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

steve et al. i am showing pupils some slides of film posters. the
posters which are landscape 'size' properly in PP. it's not that the
portrait film posters don't 'size' properly (they do), it's just that
a film poster that is portrait would fit better in a portrait PP page
(i think). this is why i *wanted* to choose which slide would be
landscape/portrait. thanks for all your help and suggestions. any more
because i am always willing to learn. but i think i get the gist of
what you are saying - it's not possible!

Not possible and, unless you're printing, not necessary.

Do have a look at the link I posted earlier, as it has pictures that'll be lots
more useful than me standing here waving my virtual hands around.

But basically it's like this: you're projecting a horizontal image on a
horizontal screen. If you put the poster on a horizontal slide and make it as
big as possible, it'll fill the screen top to bottom.

If you create a vertical presentation and project it using the same setup, your
poster will ... wait for it ... fill the screen top to bottom.

No difference in size.

 

[showsomeidnow]

Steve Rindsberg (et al.) thank you! i think i understand now. i DID
have a look at your link yesterday but your explanation has made it
even easier to understand. again, much thanks and sorry for the late
reply. have a lovely weekend also.

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

Steve Rindsberg (et al.) thank you! i think i understand now. i DID
have a look at your link yesterday but your explanation has made it
even easier to understand. again, much thanks and sorry for the late
reply. have a lovely weekend also.

Thanks, you too.
So there's something to be said for the old virtual waving of hands, eh?

Next week, we'll escalate to eSoggyCocktailNapkins and airFeltTips <G>