Print one slide over various pages

[Takformaten]

Hi everyone, good to know there is help out there...

What I am trying to do is to print one .ppt slide in a way, that it i
printed onto various pieces of paper (letter, or A4 sized) which I the
glue together, so that I finally get one poster sized slide.

Any ideas?

Merci

peTe

 

[Echo S]

You are asking for what is known as "tiling." PPT doesn't do this, but your
printer driver may. Try the properties for your printer driver.

If that doesn't work, then do a File/Save as, save your PPT file as an
image. Then open the image in an application which does do tiling
(Photoshop, for instance) and print from there.

Or you can insert those images back into PPT and crop each of them to mimic
the appropriate portion of the tile. Of course, you'll have to add as many
slides as tiles...

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

What I am trying to do is to print one .ppt slide in a way, that it is

printed onto various pieces of paper (letter, or A4 sized) which I then
glue together, so that I finally get one poster sized slide.

This is called "tiling"

PowerPoint doesn't do this; if your printer driver does it (some do) it'd just
be a matter of choosing the right options in the driver and printing.

Or you could export a graphic from PowerPoint and bring it into a program that
does tiling, like Corel Draw.

Or from the source. <g>

 

[John Langhans [MSFT]]

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Hello,

PowerPoint does not have the capability to do tiled printing of slides
where the slide is printed in sections (as large as your printer will
allow) which can then be assembed, after the fact, into a poster.

However there are at least a couple of workarounds for large format /
poster printing:

1) If you have a large format printer which can produce output large enough
for your poster/banner on a single sheet of paper, simply specify a slide
size (proportional to your poster or banner dimensions) that is within the
maximum allowable slide size in PowerPoint and, when printing, use the
"Scale to fit paper" option when printing to a printer which supports print
areas larger than the maximum slide size in PowerPoint.

OR

2) If you don't have a large format printer but you DO have Publisher, you
can copy and paste your creation from PowerPoint into a Publisher poster or
banner template. Publisher does support tiled printing and also allows you
to specify page sizes up to 20x20 feet.

If support for larger paper sizes, or the ability to tile print your poster
or banner (slide) is important to you (or anyone else reading this
message), don't forget to send your feedback (in YOUR OWN WORDS, please) to
Microsoft at:

http://register.microsoft.com/mswish/suggestion.asp

As with all product suggestions, it's important that you not just state
your wish but also WHY it is important to you that your product suggestion
be implemented by Microsoft. Microsoft receives thousands of product
suggestions every day and we read each one but, in any given product
development cycle, there are only sufficient resources to address the ones
that are most important to our customers so take the extra time to state
your case.

IMPORTANT: Each submission should be a single suggestion (not a list of
suggestions)

John Langhans
Microsoft Corporation
Supportability Program Manager
Microsoft Office PowerPoint for Windows
Microsoft Office Picture Manager for Windows

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