Preferences Property Page

The General Property Page.

Language

Allow the user to selec the default lanuge to the program. Typically the workspace nned to be save and reload to getthe full effedt, but the menu and property pages willl be in the langauge of choice. Note the lanuage file isn in [installpath]/_cmn/strings.txt language can be added and edited in this file

Native File Archive

this allows the option to use the Operating system (eg windows or MAC) file load/save dialog ot the operating system independend file load save dialogAdvanced Configuration<

Default line size

Set the default size of lines in property pages.

Default page width

set the default property page width

Default Font Size

set the default fint size used in display propery pages and other program features
must be less than the default line size above

Default Font Face

The program font used for property pages and other program features

Auto Size Workspace

If set set the program size to 95% of the available screen area on startup property page width

Save Workspace On Exit

When the software is closed it will launch a window that asks if you would like to save the workspace.  If you would like to stop this window from opening uncheck this box. - Currenly not implemented

Songs to Playlists are referenced (else copied)

If set ie referenced then the song cannot be edited in the playlist. When the slide with the verse is selected (clicked) in text mode the whole song is displayed

If not checked (ie copied mode)then the verse/slide can be edited in the playlist. The changes are part of the playlist only (not the palette) When such a slide with verse is selected (clicked) in text mode the whole song is NOT displayed (the reference has been lost)


Image in slide by Reference

If set then images dragged into the playlist are only saved by reference by default. By reference mean the actual image is not saved just its location. Loading this sequence onto another machine need that image to be present on that machine The advantance is the playlist and workspace is much smaller. The disadvantage is that the image is not part of the palylist which in tunr is less portable.
This only define the default behaviour and can be edited on a per slide basis.

NOTE when set this take effect after the next image palette selection

Image Palette use Thumbnails

When set the image palette uses thumbnails. So the loading of palettes particularity large ones is faster and takes less ram. If an image palette has more than 100 images it is advisable to set this to save ram.

Image Resizing

Presentation Manager can be setup to automatically resize big images so that they display faster. The Image Resizing option allows you to select the maximum size for images displayed. If set to 1600x1200 for example then any image that is larger than 1600x1200 will be resized, keeping aspect ratio, as close to 1600x1200 as possible. The resized image is save under a sub-folder of the oringinal image called Screen, whenever the image is loaded again the Screen image will be load instead of the original image. This feature can be disabled by choosing the 'Disabled' option from the list supplied.

Capture Window Playback (fps)

When using Dual Projector workspaces the option to set the capture window playback speed is shown. Dual Projector allows the playback of PowerPoint and DVD on both screens by playing the output of the primary output onto the secondary output. By default playback speed is set to 33 frames per second, changing the frames per second allows the screen duplication to be slowed down or sped up. If you have an AGP or PCI based graphics card system you may want to change lower this number if DVD or PowerPoint do not work as expected on both screens.