What is the Resolution of a Slide?

[Hoagie]

Hello all.

Can anyone tell me what the natural resolution of a slide in
PowerPoint is?
Slides scale to the current window width/height when creating
a slide show, and also when showing the presentation. What I am
wondering is, what the baseline for that scaling is. For example,
12pt font isn't always 12pt font as you alter the PowerPoint windows
size. At what slide dimensions is that 12pt font based on?

Thank you for any help!

 

[B]

Someone may have a better answer than this, but I have always used the font
sizes just for comparing relative sizes, not computing absolute ones.

Since PowerPoint is a presentation software, it may be shown on a large
variety of screen sizes from 13" diagonal (Palm Pilots, too. I suppose) to
sporting event jumbo-trons. Obviously, the font size is completely
proportional to the screen size.

On my screen (19" diag.) when comparing identically formatted sentences
(from first letter to last letter distance) in PowerPoint & Word at
identical font size when both programs are scaled to 100%, the sentences
appear very slightly smaller in PowerPoint. However, when I activate the
PowerPoint Show, the sentence length grows by approx 4.5% compared to
PowerPoint Design mode, and 3.2% compared to Word's display. If I insert
the Word file into the PowerPoint file, the size displayed in all views are
identical. Does this make a difference? The screen's pixel resolution made
no change to any of the measurements I made. Not in anything I have done,
but perhaps your situation is different.



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[Steve Rindsberg]

Can anyone tell me what the natural resolution of a slide in

PowerPoint is?

There really isn't any natural resolution. Everything, as you say, scales
to the current display device, whether that's a printer or a screen display.

Slides scale to the current window width/height when creating
a slide show, and also when showing the presentation. What I am
wondering is, what the baseline for that scaling is. For example,
12pt font isn't always 12pt font as you alter the PowerPoint windows
size. At what slide dimensions is that 12pt font based on?

Most internal dimensions in PowerPoint are based on points, but again, these
are scaled to the final output size. PowerPoint isn't a page layout app, so
it doesn't have the ability to specify precise placement on the page in the
way a drawing or page layout app would.

What's the question behind the question, though? It sounds like you're
trying to accomplish something and PPT's not going along for the ride. ;-)