I am trying to develop a website using Articulate and PowerPoint, as Stephanie Harnett did in her excellent website. So is there any way to increase the size of PowerPoint Slide or Articulate Presenter size?
No it doesn't work, Articulate only publishes on-screen size of 4:3 inch. If I increase the size from design tab, it wouldn't appear full after publishing. This is the limitation of Articulate.
I know for a fact that when objects (video, swf, web objects etc.) extend outside the area of the slide, they take up the surrounding empty space. So from that if you create each slide in flash then maybe you can use the blank space around the slide by inserting the slide as swf. All you need articulate then is for navigation, branching, presenter panel. But you do lose some of control over the course for e.g. ... i dont think you can hyperlink to any other slide from an swf.
Hi Rohan - yeah, currently the only supported slide dimension in PowerPoint is 4:3 when publishing with Articulate Presenter. One thing you might like to experiment with, though, is using a custom Articulate Presenter player like the free one called Chromeless Skin. It was built by an Articulate user named Tony Lowe. It might give you a little more flexibility in making your slide content look more seamless with your html background, similar to what Stephanie did in her Articulate-powered website.
You could also customize your player template so that your published output fills the user's screen when they launch your course. Although this may cause the presentation to scale in size and lose some visual clarity on the images, sometimes designers see that as an acceptable tradeoff when they want the course to display as large as possible. You can change the browser window settings by opening your presentation in PowerPoint, and on the Articulate menu, choose Player Templates > Other. For Browser Size, choose Resize Browser to Fill Screen. For Presentation Size, choose Scale Presentation to Fill Browser Window.
In the meantime, feature requests are always welcome if you would like to see Presenter accommodate different PowerPoint slide dimensions. You can share your requests here: http://www.articulate.com/support/contact/feature/
This thread is scaring me... Yesterday I read about the pictures that were re scaled automatically by PPT and I went onto all my 146 slides to reset all the pictures... A four hour job. The size of all the pictures given by my graphist designer is... 780X585. He based that on some screenshots. I had no warning message at all when inserting the pics.
This morning I was going to publish and noticed that when I was aligning objects the center was not quite at the center. I wanted to enlarge the content zone but apparently it's not possible if I understand you well. The client doesn't want a full screen, he wants the notes always on screen... Don't tell me I have to redo everything?
Hello Helene, right, PPT automatically scales images when you insert them, which can be frustrating. And it's correct that Presenter only supports the default (4:3) slide size; changing the slides to a different dimension will make the published output look wrong. If your images are 780x585 that would be the same aspect ratio as the default slide size (720x540), so it seems that the images, if scaled slightly, should fill the slide stage - is that not what is happening?
Would you be able to submit a support case with a link (or even a screenshot) displaying the way your published output looks? That way our support team can help you troubleshoot better. Thanks!
13 Replies
In PowerPoint, you may try clicking on the Design Tab and slecting the Page Setup button. You can change the slide size there.
Hi,
Yes Tom...you are right you can change the slide size using the Design Tab. But when you publish the file you might receive a warning as shown below:
As far as I know, Presenter output gives best output when the screen-size is set to 'On-Screen Show (4:3)'.
Try your luck anyway.
You might also want to play with the options in the template:
Go to -> Player Templates - Other - Browser Window Settings
I hope you have come acroos this page on Stephanie's website - http://www.articulate.com/blog/check-out-this-articulate-powered-website/ . May be you should try contacting her to know what settings she used..
No it doesn't work, Articulate only publishes on-screen size of 4:3 inch. If I increase the size from design tab, it wouldn't appear full after publishing. This is the limitation of Articulate.
I am looking for a solution on this thread over here..
http://community.articulate.com/forums/p/2793/14961.aspx#14961
I know for a fact that when objects (video, swf, web objects etc.) extend outside the area of the slide, they take up the surrounding empty space. So from that if you create each slide in flash then maybe you can use the blank space around the slide by inserting the slide as swf. All you need articulate then is for navigation, branching, presenter panel. But you do lose some of control over the course for e.g. ... i dont think you can hyperlink to any other slide from an swf.
Hi Rohan - yeah, currently the only supported slide dimension in PowerPoint is 4:3 when publishing with Articulate Presenter. One thing you might like to experiment with, though, is using a custom Articulate Presenter player like the free one called Chromeless Skin. It was built by an Articulate user named Tony Lowe. It might give you a little more flexibility in making your slide content look more seamless with your html background, similar to what Stephanie did in her Articulate-powered website.
You could also customize your player template so that your published output fills the user's screen when they launch your course. Although this may cause the presentation to scale in size and lose some visual clarity on the images, sometimes designers see that as an acceptable tradeoff when they want the course to display as large as possible. You can change the browser window settings by opening your presentation in PowerPoint, and on the Articulate menu, choose Player Templates > Other. For Browser Size, choose Resize Browser to Fill Screen. For Presentation Size, choose Scale Presentation to Fill Browser Window.
In the meantime, feature requests are always welcome if you would like to see Presenter accommodate different PowerPoint slide dimensions. You can share your requests here: http://www.articulate.com/support/contact/feature/
Thanks!
Hi all
This thread is scaring me... Yesterday I read about the pictures that were re scaled automatically by PPT and I went onto all my 146 slides to reset all the pictures... A four hour job. The size of all the pictures given by my graphist designer is... 780X585. He based that on some screenshots. I had no warning message at all when inserting the pics.
This morning I was going to publish and noticed that when I was aligning objects the center was not quite at the center. I wanted to enlarge the content zone but apparently it's not possible if I understand you well. The client doesn't want a full screen, he wants the notes always on screen... Don't tell me I have to redo everything?
Hello Helene, right, PPT automatically scales images when you insert them, which can be frustrating. And it's correct that Presenter only supports the default (4:3) slide size; changing the slides to a different dimension will make the published output look wrong. If your images are 780x585 that would be the same aspect ratio as the default slide size (720x540), so it seems that the images, if scaled slightly, should fill the slide stage - is that not what is happening?
Yes apparently the preview is fine (haven't been able to publish since 24 hours) but in sync mode it appears truncated (good to know).
I want to publish at 4:3 - all my settings seem normal (On-Screen Show (4:3) - but the finished published version is not 4:3, it's something like 6:4.
Any ideas?
Could this be to do with the monitor format settings, which is squeezing the image?
Thanks
Hi Roger,
Would you be able to submit a support case with a link (or even a screenshot) displaying the way your published output looks? That way our support team can help you troubleshoot better. Thanks!
OK - I've submitted a case with 2 screen shots, one of the PPT screen shot (which is 4:3) and one of the published screenshot.
Thanks
Many thanks, Roger! Our support team will follow up with you shortly.
Hi Arun!
Check out this article that explains supported slide size as well as how to update.
This discussion is closed. You can start a new discussion or contact Articulate Support.