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jenlinq
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December 13, 2012
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Artifacts after PPT import and resizing

  • December 13, 2012
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Hi all,

I have a CP file created from a PPTX. Once the slides have been imported, I rescaled the project (maintaining aspect ratio) to shrink it, then resized it again (NOT maintaining aspect ratio) to add some blank space below my slides for additional content. All is well within CP, but once I publish it to SWF, artifacts (looks like the same slide content at original size) appear at the bottom where my blank space is supposed to be. (See partial screenshot below.) Any thoughts on why this is happening? Or if there's a better way to put my PPT slides in a CP file at specified dimensions AND have blank space at the bottom, I'm certainly open to other ways of doing it.

Thanks!

J

(Windows 7, Captivate 6 64-bit, PowerPoint 2010)

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Lilybiri
Lilybiri
Legend
December 14, 2012

Could you tell which slide quality you are using? Although I agree that resizing is not always a good idea, resizing here is keeping all original sizes of objects and shouldn't decrement the quality for that case. I used this approach to create a knockout Master slide in an article. Post the link below

It is very annoying that Powerpoint is always measuring in cm instead of pixels (crazy for a program that is first meant to use in presentations, but that is MS...). The size in pixels is somewhere but deeply hidden in PPT. However if you create a CPTX-file from a PPT file it will have the resolution of that file in pixels. Then you can rescale it to add more space, while keeping the original slide in its original resolution.

Perhaps it could help you, this old article:

http://lilybiri.posterous.com/create-and-use-a-knockout-master-slide

Lilybiri

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jenlinqAuthor
Participating Frequently
December 14, 2012

Lilybiri, thanks for your response. I have tried all different slide qualities settings, and have had the same issue. The issue isn't really related to quality of the slide content, it's content showing where there's not supposed to be content. I have seen your knockout master slide post, but it doesn't quite apply to my case, as I need the blank space on some slides in order to add text boxes within CP. I suppose I could apply the master slide to only those without text boxes. I guess I was mainly curious as to whether the issue I'm having was a result of something I'm doing wrong, or a bug. I'm convinced it's a bug with CP.

Lilybiri
Lilybiri
Legend
December 14, 2012

Was pointing to that post, because you have also to use those settings when rescaling to keep the original content unchanged,

Lilybiri

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SethXP
Inspiring
December 14, 2012

I don't think resizing projects (and more than once in this case) is a good idea. You can use a calculator to get the pixels for inches and change your powerpoint page properties. This is one of many useful websites.

http://auctionrepair.com/pixels.html

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jenlinqAuthor
Participating Frequently
December 14, 2012

SethXP, I realize that it would be ideal to have the dimensions of the source files match your final output as much as possible. Resizing the PPT causes alignment issues that I do not have time to fix. Since CP has the rescale option (it's the first option under Modify, so I assume it's a relatively popular function), I assumed that resizing slides within CP is something I should be able to do without much grief, and that is not turning out to be the case. However, thank you for the link, that will be very helpful in the future.

J

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