Print Width

[Bill Butcher]

Is there any way to print a presentation wider than 56
inches. We have an HP DesignJet 500 that can print very
large posters that are 42 inches high and up to 150 feet
wide in landscape orientation. PowerPoint seems to have a
limit of 56 inches in width.

 

[christinaworks]

yes, you can make a smaller the same porportions...the HP driver will give
you a change to enlarge by percentage on the print.

Actually if you try to enlarge the page setup....it will be lesser quality
on any images you have placed.

christinaworks

 

[John Langhans [MSFT]]

[CRITICAL UPDATE - Anyone using Office 2003 should install the critical
update as soon as possible. From PowerPoint, choose "Help -> Check for
Updates".]

Hello,

PowerPoint does not allow a slide size larger than 56" x 56" and also 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

It's VERY important that, for EACH wish, you describe in detail, WHY it is
important TO YOU that your product suggestion be implemented. A good wish
submssion includes WHAT scenario, work-flow, or end-result is blocked by
not having a specific feature, HOW MUCH time and effort ($$$) is spent
working around a specific limitation of the current product, etc. Remember
that 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 as CLEARLY and
COMPLETELY as possible so that we can FEEL YOUR PAIN.

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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