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prepressmonkey - 20 Dec 2006 00:19 GMT

hello,

what would be the best solution to export a powerpoint-presentation into a
pdf?

a tried several settings (paper-settings "presentation"), but every pdf has
a white border!

background: our powerpoint-files are big (250mb) and it takes several
minutes to open them and to switch to the presentation-mode - very
disappointing during a presentation.

so we would like to use pdf's in fullscreen-mode to solve this problem, but
with the wite borders it doesn't look good.

thanks for your help in advance!

regards,

ferdinand

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TAJ Simmons - 20 Dec 2006 11:33 GMT

ferdinand

see
Why are my PowerPoint files so big? What can I do about it?
http://www.pptfaq.com/FAQ00062.htm

cheers
TAJ Simmons
microsoft powerpoint mvp

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prepressmonkey - 24 Dec 2006 13:10 GMT

hi,

thanks for the link, we will try to use the suggestions with new
presentations!

but for the actual presentation with 150+ pages and many many pictures it is
too late (to reimport every photo, we didn't saved much of the photos
seperately).

so I would like to ask again, if anyone has a tip to make a fullscreen pdf
without borders

thanks,

ferdinand

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CyberTaz - 24 Dec 2006 14:27 GMT

This works for me -

Go to File>Page Setup & set the Width & Height to the correct paper size (in
my case 11"x8.5"). Do *not* "Fix" if prompted - click OK.

Next, click the Options Button in the same dialog & choose your PDF Printer
from the Format For: list (in my case Adobe PDF 7.0).

HTH |:>)
Bob Jones
[MVP] Office:Mac

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Steve Rindsberg - 28 Dec 2006 23:27 GMT

> so I would like to ask again, if anyone has a tip to make a fullscreen pdf
> without borders

If you have Acrobat, it's pretty simple.

Open the PDF in Acrobat and use its Document Crop command (hidden in different
places, depending on your Acrobat version) to remove excess white space. You can
do this for all slides in the presentation at one whack.

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best practice export to pdf