Power Point

[cffm1]

Is it possible to create a 8' wide, 4' high poster using Power Point?

 

[LVTravel]

Is it possible to create a 8' wide, 4' high poster using Power Point?

Don't think so.

You would first have to set whatever printer to that size and then set the
slide size to that large size. I believe that the largest size you can
obtain in PPT 2003 & PPT 2007 is 56 X 56 inches.

 

[Matti Vuori]

Don't think so.

Of course it is.

You would first have to set whatever printer to that size and then set
the slide size to that large size. I believe that the largest size
you can obtain in PPT 2003 & PPT 2007 is 56 X 56 inches.

The slide doesn't need to be that large. PPT can scale the printout to the
printer's page size. Alternatively, one can create a PDF, which the print
house can print in whatever size - Adobe Reader can fit the document to the
printer's page size too.

 

[Lucy Thomson]

This should help:
Print posters or other large format output
http://www.pptfaq.com/FAQ00537.htm

Lucy

 

[LVTravel]

Of course it is.


The slide doesn't need to be that large. PPT can scale the printout to the
printer's page size. Alternatively, one can create a PDF, which the print
house can print in whatever size - Adobe Reader can fit the document to
the
printer's page size too.

Maybe, I followed the instructions in the link that Lucy gave to test it
with PPT 2003. Placed one bit mapped graphic on a 8" X 4" sized slide.
Created a PDF file using scale to fit in the size that the OP wanted (96 " X
48" or 8 X 4 feet.) Well when I printed in landscape mode the image got
distorted and didn't enlarge with the page and in portrait mode the image
wasn't enlarged at all even though the canvas was the proper size. The
image I used was a .jpg 428 X 336 pixels at 300 dpi which shows as a 1.427 X
1.120 inch image on the 8 X 4 inch slide. Used PrimoPDF as the printer
driver.

 

[TAJ Simmons]

LVTravel

Well when I printed in landscape mode the image got distorted

The image I used was a .jpg 428 X 336 pixels at 300 dpi

There's the answer. It's all about the pixels - not the DPI

428x336 pixels is very low quality to be enlarged

You need more pixels to achieve better quality.

cheers
TAJ Simmons
PowerPoint Master

http://www.awesomebackgrounds.com
awesome - powerpoint templates,
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[LVTravel]

LVTravel



There's the answer. It's all about the pixels - not the DPI

428x336 pixels is very low quality to be enlarged

You need more pixels to achieve better quality.

cheers
TAJ Simmons
PowerPoint Master

http://www.awesomebackgrounds.com
awesome - powerpoint templates,
powerpoint backgrounds, free samples, ppt tutorials...

My point exactly. Without the OP knowing what can be enlarged or not
enlarged, using the print to size feature I would hate to see the OP send a
project to the publisher only to have it returned as unprintable.

While the method that Lucy stated and also Matti mentioned may work some
time, generally it is a poor way to produce a poster of the size the OP
wants. Yes, the image to be blown up to the 8' X 4' in my example should
have been at least 4280 X 3360 pixels in size to adequately size the image.

The OP clearly should use a program that can create a poster in the native
size desired without have the issues of "pixel degradation" or distortion of
images due to the resize. The OP would also need the correct sized images
to enable them to make larger images look goog. A picture from a older
phone camera just won't do the job.