New version of Merge available

There’s a new version of PPTools Merge available at:

http://www.pptools.com/downloads.htm

 

No new features, but it fixes a couple of annoying little bugs:

 

FIXED:

In Presentations mode, you could Browse for an output folder but the folder you chose wouldn’t replace whatever was previously in the output text box.

It now works properly.

 

FIXED:

In Presentations mode, if you used @filename and specified full paths to your output files, the paths weren’t respected.

Merge now creates the files as specified.

 

 

Use PowerPoint to make Facebook home page images

Getting the image size JUST RIGHT for your Facebook home page can be a trial.  Or more accurately, a trial and error, trial and error, trial and error until you finally get it right.

How about a way of nailing it in one shot, right from PowerPoint?  Interested?  We got you covered.

Facebook wants an image of exactly 720 pixels wide by 267 pixels high.

Set the page size (Design | Page Setup) first, before you add any shapes, text or graphics to the slide. If you change the page size afterward, you'll distort the graphics.

In most cases, PowerPoint exports images at 96 pixels to the inch, meaning if you set your page size to exactly 7.5" wide by 2.781" high you'll get an image of exactly the right size, or close enough for Facebook work, when choose File | Save As and pick PNG as the file type to save as.

Of course, if you have our Image Export add-in for PowerPoint, it's even simpler.  Set the page size to anything that's proportional to the final size Facebook wants: 7.2" wide by 2.67" high, for example. Then create your graphics, and finally, use Image Export to export the slide at 720x267 pixels.

There’s a free demo of Image Export at http://www.pptools.com/imageexport/