Abstract Background for SlideShows

Several questions have come up on how to handle vertical images in a SlideShow. As our video Frame is a horizontal rectangle, to some degree, or another, what does one do with those vertical images - the ones that looked so good, printed and hanging on the wall?
There are several basic ways to handle them:
1.) Crop a horizontal portion from the vertical image (sometimes works, and sometimes does not
2.) Allow black bars around the vertical image and size it so that its height equals the height of the Frame (can be OK, but not really what we usually want)
3.) Create a "background" that fills the horizontal Frame, and then overlay the vertical image onto that, as in #2, but with no black bars.
Personally, I like #3, followed by #1, when I can crop. One can even have some fun with the "background" image. I go for an abstraction and usually will "soften" its look by reducing the contrast, saturation and probably a good dose of blur. All I want is something to fill the black bar spaces. HERE is a mini-tutorial that I did for animating the "creation" of an abstract background image to use with vertical (and horizontal, though they take up the entire screen, so you do not see the background behind them) images in a SlideShow.
Hope that this helps someone,
Hunt

So it was a path issue :-) Glad you sorted it .
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As for printing to the edge of a piece of paper on a local printer that supports it, you need to set up the printer to do so. At least that's how it has worked with the borderless printers I have used.
If you need an inexpensive brochure printed, try Quantum Digital. As long as you design it to their specs, it is a quick turn, the printing is fine for most inexpensive jobs, and they are pretty inexpensive. Offset quality they are not.
But your file better be constructed properly.
Take care, Mike

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Hi all,
I am doing an IDOC XI File scenario with BPM.
I have created an Inbound Asynchronous and an Abstract Interface for the LEGACY SYSTEM(Target Message).
I didn't create any Abstract interface for the IDOC(Source message).
I am getting this error:
<b>"Expression must return the interface type DEBMAS.DEBMAS06.DEBMAS06".</b>
Do I need to create an Abstarct Interface for the IDOC?
According to the above error, BPM is expecting an ABSTRACT INTERFACE Type for the IDOC.
Experts need help from you.
Thank you,
Joslyn.

That mapping is an dummy mapping between Idoc to Abstract Idoc Type. Here Sender Idoc Interface is mapped with Reciever Abstract Idoc interface.
So inside the BPM, Abstract Idoc interface acts as a Container variable to collect the idocs.
For simplicity-for collection of idocs
You can see, BPMPatterns from the SAP BASIS Software Component in your XI Repository.
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw2004s/helpdata/en/08/16163ff8519a06e10000000a114084/frameset.htm
Regards,
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