Why use PowerPoint slide design size of 1920 x 1080 instead of the default 960 x 540?
I have been given two 16:9 templates which are causing issues when copying content from one to the other in the objects appear smaller when pasted.
On examination I found the following 16:9 design size setups in inches with points in parenthesis:
1. Microsoft Office Default for "On-screen show" = 10” x 5.625” (720 *405) - pre 2013 default
2. Microsoft Office Default for "Widescreen" = 13.333” x 7.5” (960 * 540) - 2013 onwards default, better for 4:3 migration
3. Custom Template 1 = 10” x 5.625” (720 *405)
4. Custom Template 2 = 26.67” x 15” (1920.25 * 1080)
Content is being copied from slides using Template 1 to slides using Template 2 and appearing smaller, as expected. by a factor of 2.666 (26.67" / 10"). This means that users are having to scale everything up by 2.666, reposition, re-margin text, increase font sizes etc. when reusing content from Template 1. Nightmare!
I didn't design the templates so I am wondering what the rational was for the designer to deviate from the new Office default "Widescreen" settings and then to increase it when releasing the new version Template 2.
Is it purely a choice abut matching the number of points to Full HD for projection quality optimisation? It seems a pretty weird thing to do when there are many thousands of slides using Template 1.
What is the "Best Practice" here when considering content migration?
On examination I found the following 16:9 design size setups in inches with points in parenthesis:
1. Microsoft Office Default for "On-screen show" = 10” x 5.625” (720 *405) - pre 2013 default
2. Microsoft Office Default for "Widescreen" = 13.333” x 7.5” (960 * 540) - 2013 onwards default, better for 4:3 migration
3. Custom Template 1 = 10” x 5.625” (720 *405)
4. Custom Template 2 = 26.67” x 15” (1920.25 * 1080)
Content is being copied from slides using Template 1 to slides using Template 2 and appearing smaller, as expected. by a factor of 2.666 (26.67" / 10"). This means that users are having to scale everything up by 2.666, reposition, re-margin text, increase font sizes etc. when reusing content from Template 1. Nightmare!
I didn't design the templates so I am wondering what the rational was for the designer to deviate from the new Office default "Widescreen" settings and then to increase it when releasing the new version Template 2.
Is it purely a choice abut matching the number of points to Full HD for projection quality optimisation? It seems a pretty weird thing to do when there are many thousands of slides using Template 1.
What is the "Best Practice" here when considering content migration?
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LOL, Jamie! We'll have to buy each other beers one of these days. I wonder where the 26.67 came from, then? Maybe a different version of Keynote? Or maybe someone was trying to mimic the Keynote size?
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I tested from Keynote and got a template at 26.667” x 15” which is interesting in itself because this is the 3 decimal points needed to give a slide size as exactly 1920 x 1080 and not 1920.25 x 1080 as in the template I have, set to 26.67. I wonder where that one digit got dropped in the creation process... Life's too short to find out.