Vertical scroll on long image

[Chris Watts]

PPT 2007

I am trying to achieve a credit animation (or similar slow vertical scroll)
on an image that is about five times the screen height. Everything that I
have tried (eg Motion path, crawl in, ascend) does scroll but not for the
whole height of the image - it either crops off the top or bottom as if it
didn't exist. It looks as if these effects have a height limit. Is that
so? Is the a way around it?

TIA
cheers
Chris

 

[Jean-Pierre Forestier [MVP[]

You can do what you want with the motion path. Just zoom 10%

 

[Chris Watts]

Have tried that. It resolutely refuses to move the image more than half of
its length however I position and alter the length of the motion path.
Chris

You can do what you want with the motion path. Just zoom 10%

PPT 2007

I am trying to achieve a credit animation (or similar slow vertical
scroll) on an image that is about five times the screen height.
Everything that I have tried (eg Motion path, crawl in, ascend) does
scroll but not for the whole height of the image - it either crops off
the top or bottom as if it didn't exist. It looks as if these effects
have a height limit. Is that so? Is the a way around it?

TIA
cheers
Chris

 

[TAJ Simmons]

Chris,

I believe one of the ppt mvps has done some testing on this.

From memory, the limit is the screen width, and only ONE more screen width.

I believe the testing was left to right scrolling, but I imagine the same
rule applies for top to bottom images. Can you split you image into smaller
chunks?

cheers
TAJ Simmons
PowerPoint Master

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Have tried that. It resolutely refuses to move the image more than half
of its length however I position and alter the length of the motion path.
Chris

"Jean-Pierre Forestier [MVP[" <jeaNONn-pierre.forestier@worl NON
donline.fr> wrote in message news:[email protected]...

You can do what you want with the motion path. Just zoom 10%

 

[Chris Watts]

Thanks TAJ. What you recolect seems to fit with what I am finding.
Not easy to split but not impossible.
Two things that I am experimenting with are use of (1) Microsoft Forms
Frames with scroll bars or (2) the MoveShape macro.
(1) has it by a short head as (2) tends to be rather jumpy/jerky.
cheers
Chris

Chris,

I believe one of the ppt mvps has done some testing on this.

From memory, the limit is the screen width, and only ONE more screen
width.

I believe the testing was left to right scrolling, but I imagine the same
rule applies for top to bottom images. Can you split you image into
smaller chunks?

cheers
TAJ Simmons
PowerPoint Master

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

Have tried that. It resolutely refuses to move the image more than half
of its length however I position and alter the length of the motion path.
Chris

"Jean-Pierre Forestier [MVP[" <jeaNONn-pierre.forestier@worl NON
donline.fr> wrote in message

You can do what you want with the motion path. Just zoom 10%
"Chris Watts" <[email protected]> a écrit dans le message de %[email protected]...
PPT 2007

I am trying to achieve a credit animation (or similar slow vertical
scroll) on an image that is about five times the screen height.
Everything that I have tried (eg Motion path, crawl in, ascend) does
scroll but not for the whole height of the image - it either crops off
the top or bottom as if it didn't exist. It looks as if these effects
have a height limit. Is that so? Is the a way around it?

TIA
cheers
Chris

 

[Bill Dilworth]

Try this:

http://billdilworth.mvps.org/large_scale_image_scrolling.htm

It has multiple areas of concern, such as portability and such, but if you
control the computer it will be run on, this may be the better solution.

Bill Dilworth

 

[Bill Dilworth]

Sorry I take that back, does not work in 2007.

Bill Dilworth

 

[Chris Watts]

Thanks Brian.
It crops off the top half of the image. Wherever I position the image
vertically, PPT only seems to recognise a maximum length.
cheers
Chris

 

[Chris Watts]

Drat!!! That would have suited me just fine Indeed I was thinking of
writing a macro to do just that (although my VBA is very basic anyway!)
But thanks anyway, Bill

At the moment I am using a Microsoft Forms Frame with vertical scroll bars
but that is not ideal although it does work.

cheers
Chris

 

[Chris Watts]

About 5x screen height.
Chris

That's a shame, Chris. I see you're using PP2007. I tested it using
PP2003, pushing the image right off the top out of sight and it works
well, so perhaps it's one of the quirks of PP2007.

What is the vertical height of your image?

Brian.

 

[Lucy Thomson]

Hi Brian

I can't repo this in 2003 (i.e. I can repo OP's problem) - I used a standard
slide (height 19.05 cm), added a picture, made it 60 cm, aligned with top of
slide, added crawl from top and I only see 2 slides worth of picture (both
in preview and slide show mode). Are you doing something different to that?

Lucy

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Lucy Thomson
PowerPoint MVP
MOS Master Instructor
www.aneasiertomorrow.com.au

 

[Chris Watts]

Did you see Bill's post (et loc cit.)? There is ceratinly a difference in
this area between PPT2003 and PPT2007.

Chris

 

[Lucy Thomson]

Ok, I did that exactly and I still don't get the whole image, I just get the
bottom part. This is in both 2003 and 2007. <shrug>

Lucy

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PowerPoint MVP
MOS Master Instructor
www.aneasiertomorrow.com.au

 

[Chris Watts]

I tried an experiment by positioning four screen-sized images vertically
above each other. I then set a custom animation on each one of credits and
starting with previous. However I positioned this set of images it would
only scroll over a height of three image-heights in total - any more was
cropped.. I think that Bill Dillworth. is accurate in saying that PPT only
renders the visible area of screen plus one screen's worth above and one
below the visible area (and presumably sideways too) - and will then only
permit you to move about that image area. Hope my description is
understandable. Using PPT2007.

The only workable solution that I have found is to place the image in a
Microsoft Form Frame, add scroll-bars and move around the large image using
them. All sorts of other issues arise, of course!

cheers
Chris - the OP.

 

[Lucy Thomson]

Hi Chris

I agree with you & Bill having tested in 2003 and 2007 (no difference
between the two). I was just trying to get out of Brian what he's doing that
overcomes the issue as it sure would be handy!

Lucy

--
Lucy Thomson
PowerPoint MVP
MOS Master Instructor
www.aneasiertomorrow.com.au

 

[Lucy Thomson]

I don't doubt your word - I just have a curious mind . How about you send
me the slide? lucyATaneasiertomorrowDOTcomDOTau

I'm interested in the fact you are using Photoshop to alter the image and
then dragging into PowerPoint. But then you are the one *without* the
problem rather than the other way around...

Lucy

--
Lucy Thomson
PowerPoint MVP
MOS Master Instructor
www.aneasiertomorrow.com.au

 

[Bill Dilworth]

I think we played with this a few years ago and decided it was the whim of
the universe. The video card, video RAM, available system RAM, and
processor speed were all involved, if I remember correctly.

I checked and the code does seem to work well in 2007.

Bill Dilworth

 

[Chris Watts]

Hi Bill,
I too can get your code to work successfully in PPT2007 and have modified it
to suit my specific needs. But ....
In PPT 2000 the image scrolls across its full height in about 4 or so
seconds. When the same code is run in PPT2007 it takes over 60 seconds -
even when increasng the step from 1 to 5 or more. Any suggestions on
overcoming that?

cheers
Chris

 

[Lucy Thomson]

And received with thanks, Brian. The file works absolutely fine here and
Brian mentioned in his e-mail that he had saved the image at 72dpi in
Photoshop. I did a little experimenting of my own and discovered if I saved
the image I had been using unsuccessfully at 72 dpi in Photoshop Elements,
then it suddenly works!

Many thanks for your perseverance Brian. I've learnt a neat new trick

Lucy

--
Lucy Thomson
PowerPoint MVP
MOS Master Instructor
www.aneasiertomorrow.com.au

 

[Chris Watts]

Hi Lucy,
Very interesting - but didn't work for me!
I created a 72dpi version of the image using PaintShop Pro v7 (that's all
I've got!) and substituted it for the larger one.
I also tried compressing the original image down to 96dpi in PPT 2007.

Applying a Credit animation, there is no difference between all three - ie
they all get cropped at the same place.

cheers
Chris