Scanning - Bitmap Resolution - DPI

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If you want to learn more about all this resolution/DPI stuff and how it applies to PowerPoint, start here:

Taj Simmons has an excellent tutorial on using bitmap graphics efficiently in PowerPoint in addition to the other tutorials on his already brimming-with-good-info site.

There's also KN Pepper's dpi tutorial.

For more general information about the subject, visit Wayne Fulton's ScanTips.com for a superb explanation of everything you need to know about scanning, dpi, resolution and the rest, for printing or screenshow/presentation purposes.

NOTE: The Units Conversion tool included in the FREE RnR PPTools Demo will help you convert measurements into screen pixels - very handy for calculating the optimum scan size for an image.

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