Re: change paper size without scaling

From: Marko (Marko_at_mmct.net)
Date: 06/04/04 

Date: Fri, 04 Jun 2004 11:20:16 -0400

you are dead on. I cannot see why any graphic should be scaled
disproportionally, who at MS got that bright idea anyway. Don't they
think things through (rhetorical)?

I am not going to detail a wishlist item for people who should think
first, its obvious:
scale everything for the smallest side/dimension (proportionally) (in my
case the vertical dimension, and, SPREAD OUT the objects (NOT STRETCH)
along the other dimension
DUH

Steve Rindsberg wrote:
>>When you change the aspect ratio of slides in a presentation, PowerPoint
>>will, necessarily, resize and reposition items relative to the new center
>>coordinates of the slides to avoid objects moving outside the slide area or
>>excessive empty space.
>
>
> Necessarily? I don't agree. And it's not that PowerPoint is just resizing and
> repositioning, it's scaling shapes non-proportionally (which it hasn't always
> done, incidentally)
>
> It seems that to fend off a possible problem with graphics, it's instead ALWAYS
> creating a problem. I'd rather take my chances with shapes that *might* fall
> off the slide or that *might* move in relation to one another than have an
> ironclad guarantee that all of my shapes will be distorted when I change page
> size.
>
>
>>http://register.microsoft.com/mswish/suggestion.asp
>
>
> Yup. Went there. Did that. ;-)
>
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