6.1 Aspect Ratio and Resizing

As default, the aspect ratio of the slides in the slideshow -- the ratio between width and height of the area of the slides -- is 4:3.

However, command line options -a or --aspect, given in the format ``$w$:$h$'', where $w$ and $h$ are real numbers, may be used to specify a different aspect ratio.

Slides will appear in a rectangle with aspect ratio $w$:$h$.

This rectangle will be centered vertically as well as horizontally in the window on the desktop allocated by pointless. If this window has a different aspect ratio, black areas will fill up the excess space.

The height of this rectangle (rather than the height of the window) constitutes the base for the calculation of relative sizes in pll.

Pointless preserves aspect ratio under resizing.

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