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ejwebb

6th of July 2004 (Tue), 06:53

I would like to be able to present photos to a small audience (my photo forum) on an LCD projector connected to a laptop. What I would like is something that allows the picture to fill the screen and enables control of paging through the photos. Other members are using slideshow software that creates shows with music and set intervals between photos - that is NOT what I want. I want to be able to click each photo and talk about it - like a real slideshow - but have it fill the screen as much as possible.

Any suggestions? Preferable freeware/shareware or inexpensive software if possible. Thanks.

PacAce

6th of July 2004 (Tue), 07:25

I was going to suggest MS Powerpoint but it's not free. If you have PS, you might be able to create a slideshow PDF file. I thought I read something about that about PS but I haven't tried it myself so I'm not 100% sure that it can be done. But it might be worth looking into.

ejwebb

6th of July 2004 (Tue), 08:08

meow

6th of July 2004 (Tue), 08:12

You might consider using the Opera browser. It supports the projection media type and it's possible to create lightweight presentations with nothing else than plain HTML and little CSS.

If you have Opera installed, go to this page and hit F11 and I think you'll get a surprise. :lol:
http://www.opera.com/support/tutorials/operashow/
If you don't have it it's just a 3.3 MB download.

vfilby

6th of July 2004 (Tue), 08:22

Now that is cool. I have been using opera for a long time and I use the fullscreen mode often but I didn't know it could do that!

Vince

meow

6th of July 2004 (Tue), 08:43

Yes, beats PowerPoint's bloat, doesn't it? :D

ejwebb, I just realized that all you want on each page is the photo, no text. Is that right? In that case you could use any browser that has a cromeless full screen mode. Create a series of simple html pages, something like the below. Use width="100%" in the IMG tag for landscape pictures and height="100%" for portrait and the browser will scale it.

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML
4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">

<html>

<head>
<title></title>

<style type="text/css">

</style>

</head>

<body>

<div id="wrapper">
<a href="page02.html"><img src="image01.jpg" width="100%"></a>
</div>

</body>
</html>

Just a thought. :?

PacAce

6th of July 2004 (Tue), 09:33

Thanks. I have Powerpoint and thought it would be good but not sure if it is on the presentation computer - I will check on it. The best option would be some type of self executing file that I can save on a CD to run on any computer. May be asking for too much at a no/low cost.

Thanks for the suggestion!
If I'm not mistaken, you should be able to create a powerpoint show (.PPS) that will execute on any PC without the need to have PowerPoint installed to run it.

meow

6th of July 2004 (Tue), 11:02

I could be wrong but I don't think that's the case. I think you need either PowerPoint or their Viewer utility.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=428d5727-43ab-4f24-90b7-a94784af71a4&DisplayLang=en

PacAce

6th of July 2004 (Tue), 11:06

al606

6th of July 2004 (Tue), 11:11

If it's just photos you're going to be showing then why not something like Irfanview? You can go to fullscreen mode and use the spacebar to go to the next picture. It's free and small.

Silvatooth

6th of July 2004 (Tue), 17:47

You guys should really check out IRFanview.
Its a great image-viewing program that lets you create picture presentations and control them by your mouse or keyboard. This is what I used to present a bunch of 3D images to my internship program once. It works great.

Check it out here: http://www.irfanview.com

meow

6th of July 2004 (Tue), 17:59

How do you make images scale to fill the screen in full screen mode?

Digital Prophet

6th of July 2004 (Tue), 20:10

Ok, that Opera presentation thing was uber-cool. I am going to have my support staff of pikas research this further.

Very interesting indeedy.

- Digital Prophet -

ejwebb

6th of July 2004 (Tue), 20:48

Thanks for all the tips - I am downloading Irfanview as we speak and will get back to you all with my experience. Might not be until tomorrow night as I still have work to do and a busy day tomorrow.

Take care!

ejwebb

6th of July 2004 (Tue), 21:18

I lied...Irfanview is such a great program that I have already created a self-executable slideshow. EXACTLY what I was looking for!!!
And it looks like it will do many other things, too. You guys are all a great help.

Thanks!

Silvatooth

7th of July 2004 (Wed), 02:53

No prob.

meow

7th of July 2004 (Wed), 06:56

So, can you tell me how to do the scale to fit the window thing in slide show mode? I use Irfan too and I can't find the option. :cry:
Or did you skip that requirement? Which means I can stop searching Irfan's Help file. :lol:

Big_B

7th of July 2004 (Wed), 07:00

Don't forget, if you're running XP then there's an integreated slide show feature.

ejwebb

7th of July 2004 (Wed), 08:17

In Irfanview I think full screen was already selected when I started it. I am at work without the program now but I think you could select that option on the opening page of the slideshow program - below the window that shows files to be included in the slideshow. It creates a black screen that takes up the entire monitor and then presents the pic's in the middle of the screen. If there are enough pixels, the picture will cover the black and be full-screen - lower pixel images are presented smaller - so it depends on the picture size as to how it is presented.

Thanks, again!