November 10, 2004

How To Avoid The Black Border Inside The PowerPoint Viewer

Dan Putelli asked:

QUESTION: Hi there, I wondered if you could help me with a problem I've got? I am calling PowerPoint slides from within a Macromedia Director presentation (projector) utilising the PowerPoint Viewer 97.

Here is my problem:

In Macromedia Director I give the PowerPoint window a specific size so as to fit it exactly into my Director presentation. This works fine when I use PowerPoint itself.

When I use PowerPoint Viewer though, the slide is displayed slightly smaller and with a black border around it. You can also check this out by opening the same file with PP and PP Viewer at the same time and then toggle between them.

The reason I'm not using PowerPoint to display the slides in Director is, that it seems to have problems displaying certain slides i.e.: the slide show up as black squares.

I was wondering if you'd know of a way to get rid of that black border around the slide in PowerPoint Viewer. Regards, Dan

ANSWER: Dear Dan, thank you for your good question.
My suggestion is to avoid using the direct PowerPoint Viewer 97">PowerPoint viewer inside Director and to export the PPT slides as images into Director for best results.
While I have made a recommendation to those wishing the eliminate the black border when viewing a PowerPoint presentation inside Internet Explorer (by going to Browse->Full Screen) I am not aware of any solution to solve this problem inside the PowerPoint Viewer 97">PowerPoint viewer.

One extreme solution suggested by our Igor Raznatovic is to import it the presentation in Apple's Keynote (Mac version of PowerPoint) and export it as QuickTime file if nothing else works.



Luigi Canali De Rossi


posted by on Wednesday, November 10 2004
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