Minimum margins for projected slides

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Michael Hoffman

I am generating some plots for presentation in a statistical software
package called R. I tried using Windows Metafile output but then the
files do not work well on my supervisor's Mac. So I'm using PNG output
instead. I see from the PowerPoint FAQ that 1024x768 images are
suggested, so I'll start doing that.

Can anyone suggest some margins I should use when creating these images?
I want to fill up as much of the slide as possible, which is why I'm not
just importing into the image box on a stock slide layout. But if I
don't use large enough margins, the sides of the plots (where the labels
are, probably the most important bit) might get cut off in some
projector setups.

Thanks!
 
You can't set margins in PowerPoint. I, because I like to keep it simple I
set the resolution for the majority of my images at 100 pixels per inch. to
fill a standard slide 10"x7.5", using my image resolution the size of the
image is 1000x750. If you then want a 50 pixel border make your image
900x650. But if you don't want to go to all that trouble, then use 1024 x
768. Hope this is what your looking for.
 
I am generating some plots for presentation in a statistical software
package called R. I tried using Windows Metafile output but then the
files do not work well on my supervisor's Mac. So I'm using PNG output
instead. I see from the PowerPoint FAQ that 1024x768 images are
suggested, so I'll start doing that.

Can anyone suggest some margins I should use when creating these images?
I want to fill up as much of the slide as possible, which is why I'm not
just importing into the image box on a stock slide layout. But if I
don't use large enough margins, the sides of the plots (where the labels
are, probably the most important bit) might get cut off in some
projector setups.
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That's a hard one to predict ... more a judgement call on your part. How
off-kilter is the projectionist likely to be? ;-)

You could make the background on the PPT black and then drop your images in
atop that and size them so that there's a half inch or so (in PPT terms) all
around. If the projector setup neatly fills the screen with a normal slide,
you know yours will never get cut off.
 
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