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Not sure whether it's all worth the hassle, but basically I want to project the attached logo onto a (white) screen via my laptop.


However I want the logo only, not menus etc, and also it has to be quite large on the screen or it will look ridiculous (it's to replace a backdrop which can't be used in the particular location in the room).


When I tried it full screen on my laptop it got distorted to an oval :(


Anyone got any ideas?


I've also got a psd version of it, but I'm not sure that's any help ....


I know how to connect the laptop to the projector, that's not the issue, it's getting a reasonable size logo onto the screen with no distortion and no other stuff appearing as well as the logo.....


I'm not too bothered if you can see the lines of the square around the edges ....

KidKruger

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Sue from what I know you just stick the logo into somethinglike MS PowerPoint and size it as you need to.

Then display trough projector. Projector should have controls to adjust perspective (like a corrective lens on an architectural camera) giving you a 'true' logo representation or bending it if you choose to do so.

Huguenot

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If you haven't got PowerPoint, use OpenOffice.org or Prezi.com or even just Google Presentation.


They will all allow you to create a blank slide, add the image into it, and then show the slide without surrounding stuff.


If the image is distorted that may be down to the angle between the projector and the wall. You should be able to adjust this using the 'keystone' corrections on the projector menu.

Sue

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Sadly I found that what I thought was an HDMI socket (?) on my laptop wasn't. It's apparently an analogue equivalent to it. Whatever that means :))


So I couldn't use the projector anyway as they only had one lead for it, which needed an HDMI socket :(


Bloody hell, my laptop isn't THAT old !!!

Jeremy

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Fox - this is a similar product:

http://www.maplin.co.uk/vga-to-hdmi-convertor-with-audio-support-388962


As far as I can see, ed_pete's link won't help, because as with right-clicking's suggestion, it looks like just a cable and not a converter.


To reiterate, you don't just need a cable, you need a unit which can convert the analog VGA signal to a digital signal.

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