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[djellison]

Clearly we have some utter MS Office gurus in this place.....SO....here's one for you...

http://www.unmannedspaceflight.com/doug_im...age_problem.ppt


Simple powerpoint file - a large JPG imported, and I want to scroll the JPG up (or more often in a MER case.....along) for added OOoooo factor. You can see the custom animation I've added, a simple motion path upward.....but there's a problem

Try playing the presentation

click - image fades on......lovely.

click - image begins to scroll along.....lovely - but watch what happens at about the point where what was at the bottom of the screen reaches the top.....BAM...the image stops showing - it'll keep scrolling for the duration of the custom anim - but it gives up trying to show the image.

I've got a fairly powerfull laptop here, 2 gig of ram in it...SURELY I should be able to scroll an image like that without Powerpoint just throwing its hands in the air and giving up?

Any pointers to solve THAT one..

What I often have to end up doing is just showing little bits of large images, and that...well....SUCKS I mean really, I should be able to scroll say a 4000 x 768 pixel image shouldn't I ?

:0

Doug

[djellison]

Oh - I can do the whole after-effects-scroll-an-image thing to make a WMV or whatever....BUT.....imagine a PPT with 20 such things......it's half a gig in size before you've even started - and I've never been 100% happy that powerpoint, movies, and projectors run from laptops are a 'safe' combo in a 'live' environment.

It seems as if the capacity to do what I want is within the limits of Powerpoint, if they'd just let it.

Doug