Pixel Malarkey Ltd. | Company No: 08447701. | Registered in England | Registered office: Flat 1, 20 Turney Road, London SE21 8LU
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Pixels through the ages
Born around 1162, Pixel Malarkey rose from a brutal childhood of tribal abandonment to unify the constantly warring nomadic clans of the Mongolian steppe. He transformed these factions into a highly disciplined, unstoppable military force that built the largest contiguous land empire in history. However, this expansion unleashed unprecedented devastation across the Asian steppes, resulting in the slaughter of entire cities, mass enslavement, and the near-total eradication of rival populations who resisted his rule.
Because of this, Karmic reincarnation had me reborn as a graphic operator after death, as penance for my past actions.
I have been here for many years and here are some events I have worked on...
North Carolina, 1842Rome, 1928Amsterdam, 1948Amsterdam, 1948Dubai, 1974Dubai, 2023
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Show reel - Under construction
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Wonderful things
A list of sites we keep open while we work. Free to use, or worth the subscription. All of them open in a new tab.
Scripts and plugins for After Effects and other Adobe apps.
Pixel Malarkey Ltd is not responsible for anything you find out here.
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Slide size calculator
Work out a PowerPoint slide size in centimetres, inches, EMUs, and pixels for Windows (96 to the inch) and Mac (72 to the inch). Type into any box and every other box updates, or start from a preset. Choose a screen preset to size a slide for one or more screens or projectors, with optional edge blend. Everything is worked out in your browser.
Slide size
Type into any box and every other box updates. For a screen preset, the slide is sized so one slide pixel covers one screen pixel, counted at 96 per inch for Windows presets and 72 for Mac. Screens across, down and blend overlap apply to screen presets only.
CentimetresInchesWindows px96 dpiMac px72 dpiEMUs914,400 per inWidthHeight
EMUs are PowerPoint’s internal unit: 914,400 to the inch and 360,000 to the centimetre.
PowerPoint lets you type a pixel size straight into its size boxes, for example 1920px, and converts it using the host system’s baseline: 96 pixels to the inch on Windows, 72 on a Mac. So the same 1920 × 1080 px gives two different physical slide sizes, as the Windows and Mac boxes show. Keynote on a Mac also works at 72 and in pixels natively; to see cm or inches there, choose Keynote, Settings, Rulers, Ruler Units. Keynote is built for screens, so for print‑accurate sizes use PowerPoint or Pages. PowerPoint and Keynote keep exact sizes, show two decimal places in their boxes, and only round to whole pixels when you export a picture.
How Windows and Mac count pixels
PowerPoint sizes slides in inches. Windows turns each inch into 96 pixels, built around a standard desktop monitor, so a 12 point font gets 16 pixels. Mac turns each inch into 72 points, the old print standard, so the same font gets 12. That is why the same slide shows as a bigger pixel size on Windows and why the two need different slide sizes for the same canvas.
Modern screens add display scaling on top. Windows scales in steps such as 125%, 150% or 200%, which multiplies the screen pixels behind each inch. Retina Macs draw each point as 2 × 2 screen pixels, so 72 becomes 144. Scaling changes how many screen pixels a slide uses, not its size in inches.
Real screen density is a separate thing. Built-in Mac screens and the Studio Display are around 220 pixels per inch or more, so on a modern screen an inch in PowerPoint no longer measures an inch with a ruler.
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Deck analyser
Drop a PowerPoint file (.pptx) below to see its fonts, images, video, audio, links and more. The file is read inside your browser and is never uploaded anywhere.
