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How to set the window size when using a projector?
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Freeflyer
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Jul 24, 2005, 07:28 PM
 
Hi,

last night I hooked up a projector to my powerbook so I could show some photos to people. The powerbook automagically selected the correct screen size but when I dragged the iphoto window across it didn't scale correctly. The projector is 854x480 and it stretched the image out sideways, making the photos look wrong. This was with the projector in native 16x9 mode.

Eventually I set the projector to 4x3 and that at least looked right, but you lose the top and bottom of the photo. I thought that when the powerbook sets the display to the right size, it would scale the windows to that size too, but it doesn't seem to.

Is there an easy way to do this that I'm missing. I'd just like to be able to have an iphoto slideshow on the big screen without distorting and without the window being half out of frame.

Thanks for the help,

J.
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Jul 28, 2005, 09:27 AM
 
You might check if you have more resolution options. That could fix some of the issues. Go into displays and see if you have any choices. That could account for the cropped photos in 4x3. Furthermore, if the photos were stretched, the resolution wasn't matching the aspect ratio of the projector.

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Jul 28, 2005, 06:43 PM
 
Thanks, I'll give that a try next time.

Cheers,

J.
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