The images definitely would look stretched as your Storyline dimensions are 200 pixels wider than your PowerPoint dimensions. Where is the instruction for your story size coming from? Assuming you can't change that, here are some suggestions.
1. Instead of importing the PowerPoint slides, copy and past the individual elements from the PPT slide to the SL slide. You'll may lose things such as timing and animations.
2. If your PowerPoint slides aren't created yet, change your PowerPoint slide size to be the same aspect ratio as your SL slides.
3. Bring your PowerPoint slides into a SL file with the default size (which matches the PPT size). Then on the Design tab, change the story size. When you do, in the If new size is larger, section, select Fill Background. This will keep your objects at their current aspect ratio, but put colored bars on the left and right side to take up the additional horizontal space.
In PPT 2007 or 2010, go to the Design tab and click Page Setup. That lets you set the size of the PPT slide. Just realize that if your slides already have content, the content will be stretched using this method as well. But if you are building new slides with the new dimension, then everything should look fine.
oh thats good thank you I will check this up and get back to you. I would like to know is there a way to change the size of the PPT when importing into Storyline?
Thanks Phil! we are fine with having the PPT and Story files at their default sizes. But were looking for various alternatives and to see what happens if the PPT size changes what is the result on Storyline.
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The images definitely would look stretched as your Storyline dimensions are 200 pixels wider than your PowerPoint dimensions. Where is the instruction for your story size coming from? Assuming you can't change that, here are some suggestions.
1. Instead of importing the PowerPoint slides, copy and past the individual elements from the PPT slide to the SL slide. You'll may lose things such as timing and animations.
2. If your PowerPoint slides aren't created yet, change your PowerPoint slide size to be the same aspect ratio as your SL slides.
3. Bring your PowerPoint slides into a SL file with the default size (which matches the PPT size). Then on the Design tab, change the story size. When you do, in the If new size is larger, section, select Fill Background. This will keep your objects at their current aspect ratio, but put colored bars on the left and right side to take up the additional horizontal space.
Hi Diane! Thanks for your help! but I am interested more in the 2nd option. Please let me know how to change the PPT size?
In PPT 2007 or 2010, go to the Design tab and click Page Setup. That lets you set the size of the PPT slide. Just realize that if your slides already have content, the content will be stretched using this method as well. But if you are building new slides with the new dimension, then everything should look fine.
oh thats good thank you I will check this up and get back to you. I would like to know is there a way to change the size of the PPT when importing into Storyline?
The size of the powerpoint will be stretched to accommodate your storyfile.
If you are going to import default ppt into storyline I would keep the storyline size at the default size
Thanks Phil! we are fine with having the PPT and Story files at their default sizes. But were looking for various alternatives and to see what happens if the PPT size changes what is the result on Storyline.
IF you change the ppt dimensions, I would also change the dimensions of the Story file to match, or else they may look a little strange and distorted
The size of the powerpoint will be stretched to accommodate your storyfile
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