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Slides can be used in to make a presentation or the Automation context to guide operators through steps.  Slides can contain text, images and backgrounds as well as many other objects

Using the Slide Tool

To begin a slide drag it to the main pallet. Left click on the icon to begin your slide.
The user can apply the current background on the CIF Viewer to his slide or find another background throughout the computers files.  When a blank slide is selected in a sequence other presentation tools can be added to it by dragging them directly onto the Viewer Window from the Pallet. Once set up these tools can be slightly edited using the slide tool.

The Options:

The Slide Edit Tab: allows the user to choose a background or clear the current background. It allows for scaling of the image, transition possibilities, and transition and display times. (It is suggested that if this is not a slide in a sequence the user reduce the display and sequence time to zero.

The Entities Collection Tab: allows the user to sort through the tools that have been placed on the slide one by one. The option to remove a tool from a slide is also on this tab.

File: allows the user to save the work they have done on this slide or load a slide from the file name.


Setting Up Slide Transitions

To add a transition to a slide:
  1. Right-click on the slide and choose "Slide Edit".


  2. Navigate to the "Slide" page.

  3. Use the slide page to add transitions to your slides.

  4. Use the "Transition" menu to select which transition you want to use.  If it is available, you can use the ellipsis (...) button to edit the properties of that transition.


  5. Set the "Transition Time" to determine how long the transition will take when that slide is loaded.


  6. The "Display Time" is unimportant unless you are running your playlist using the "Run" button on the tool bar.


  7. Image Scaling
    The background image scaling can be set by the "Image Scaling" menu.  There are several options, but the most common options are "fit to fill" and "fit to image aspect".  Fit to fill will stretch the image so that it fills the entire projector screen. Fit to image aspect will allow the image to keep its original width to height ratio while being stretched as large as it can on the projector. 

Background/Clear/Edit buttons

The Background button allows you to select a background from anywhere on your hard drive to apply as a background to your slide.  The Clear button will remove the current background from the slide. The edit will edit background attributes.

NOTE image background are save with the slide by default unless otherwise specified in the edit property page. Not saving the background can reduce the file size considerably


Background as another slide

A slide from the same playlist can be dragged onto the slide property page. This slide then without it transitions is treated as the background image.

Use another slide as background your slides.

This is useful for when adding bullet points. Each subsequent slide take the previous slide as it background. The entities on all slides are located be editing the entity on any one slide

Adding a Text to a Slide

Once a slide is prepared you can add text to that slide.
In order to add text to a slide you will need to select the tool tab in the palette

method


slide text
  1. Click the slide you wish to add atext to so that it appears in the Preview Window.


  2. Drag one of the text objects off the Slide Builder onto the Preview Window.  This will place a green box (red once you click on it) on the Preview Window.


  3. Right-click in the green box on the Preview Window to open the Text property page.


  4. You can click on it and choose "Edit" and in the drop down menu In the property page type your text.


  5. You can tab to the "Render Style" page to edit the look, alignment and size of your text.

Preferences

Collection

the page show the list of entities on the slide. Typically to add edit or remove one click on the entity as displayed on the viewer, hence this page is redundant. It is used if entities are moves off the page and then these can be accessed.