Re: Viewer ignores slide show resolution

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Yep.

Viewer also cannot utilize the hardware acceleration feature of the full
program (which can have a large impact on complex animation playback).

-Troy

"MikeBz" <MikeBz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> So that my bitmaps and video clips don't get horribly scaled I format them
> as
> 'Best scale for slide show' (e.g. at 1024x768) and set the slide show
> resolution also to the same resolution. If I play the show from
> Powerpoint
> then it sets the screen resolution to that which is set in the
> presentation
> and all is well. Playing the show from the viewer (latest one at the time
> of
> writing) results in it being played at whatever the current screen
> resolution
> is, rather than the resolution set in the show.
>
> Another example of a 'useful' feature in Powerpoint being useless if you
> want to distribute a slideshow (search this forum for 'jaggy' to see
> another
> one - custom animations give jaggy text when played with the viewer but
> not
> when played with Powerpoint). Sigh.
>
> Mike


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