Interactive Slide Show with Pan & Zoom?

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Davy - 28 Feb 2005 17:52 GMT

I will be giving a series of presentations of historic photos on a laptop
projected through a LCD projector.

Can anybody recommend a slide show program that will allow me to manually
zoom and pan without cluttering up the screen with toolbars. This needs to
be interactive during the presentation; I don't need to create an automatic
slideshow or write to DVD.

The laptop runs Windows NT.

cheers

Davy

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Scott W - 28 Feb 2005 18:10 GMT

> I will be giving a series of presentations of historic photos on a laptop
> projected through a LCD projector.
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> Davy

You might look at ACDSee, in its photo browsing mode you can view full
screen and pan and zoom, you pan with the mouse and zoom with the key
board, no tool bars visible. It is free to try.

Scott

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Davy - 28 Feb 2005 18:36 GMT

> I will be giving a series of presentations of historic photos on a laptop
> projected through a LCD projector.
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> Davy

I have been experimenting a little and found that:

- PowerPoint does not allow any pan and zoom in slideshow mode; and has no
pan and zoom tools in normal mode
- Photoshop has excellent zoom centred on mouse pointer and smooth pan; but
of course cannot show a sequence of photos. Does Album have interactive
capabilities?
- Infranview's thumbnail option will display a sequence of photos in a
folder and allow zoom and pan of each. But unfortunately the pan is not
smooth (on a 1.8Ghz PC) and the image distorts as it moves - which rather
spoils the illusion.

Scott recommends ACDSee - does this have similar problems?

Davy

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