Creating Slide Shows

Creating Slide Shows

Creating Slide Shows

By choosing Presentation as your document type, you can create slide shows inCanvas X Draw, and save them as Canvas X Draw files (.CVD).

To Create a Slide Show:

  1. Choose File | New and select a template from the Presentations tab.
  2. Use the Document Layout palette to add slides, layers, and specify various options that affect how the slide show is played. (See Using the Document Layout Palette and Slide Options.)
  3. Open the Slide Show palette by choosing one of the following:
    • Layout | Slide Show
    • Window | Palettes | Slide Show...

Slide Show Palette

You’ll need to access the Slide Show palette if you want to build a slide show or view a slide show. Choose Layout | Slide Show to open the palette. This is a floating palette that can be kept open to create, configure, and play slide shows.

Slide Show Palette Options

Fit to screen

Reduces or enlarges the document’s slides so they fit within the screen area of the system used to play the slide show. Canvas X Draw calculates a scaling factor based on the size of the system’s monitor and the resolution setting.

Show Pointer

Displays a pointer on screen during playback. Enable this option and select the pointer from the pop-up menu. You can control the pointer with the mouse during the slide show, so you can indicate important items in the presentation.

Loop

Causes the slide show to play continuously until you interrupt it. When Canvas X Draw reaches the end of the document, it begins the slide show from the first slide.

Advance Every _ Seconds

Makes the slide show self-running by advancing from one slide to another after the specified interval, without any intervention from the operator. Enter the number of seconds in the text box. The exact timing between slides depends on the speed of the system used for playback and the complexity of the illustrations.

Progressive Build

The Progressive Build option in this palette will allow you to play a self-running slide show either layer by layer or slide by slide. While playing your self-running show, you also have the option to control the progression of each slide in the show.

Anti-Aliased Play Quality

Select this option to anti-alias (smooth) vector and text objects during playback.

Note that Vector Quality: Anti Aliased settings on the Screen Rendering page of the Preferences dialog will not anti-alias objects when playing slide shows.

Start from Selected Slide

The slide show will start from the slide you have selected in the Document Layout palette.

Show Speaker Notes

Displays speaker notes on your second monitor. If you do not have a second monitor connected, this option will be disabled.

Adding Speaker Notes

If you are presenting a slide show, speaker notes can help you remember important points of discussion. You can also create these notes for your audience. Each slide can have its own set of speaker notes.

To create a slide show and have access to the Slide Show palette, ensure that you select Presentation as the document type.

To view the speaker notes while showing the slide show, your presentation must be in .CVD format. You must also select Show Speaker Notes in the Slide Show palette. Speaker notes will only be enabled if you have a second monitor connected.

To Create Speaker Notes:

  1. Select the Speaker Notes tool. 

    The cursor changes to a crosshair.

  2. Click the crosshair in the slide area. A speaker note object appears with a gray circle that indicates that no notes have been entered.

  3. Double-click on the Speaker Note graphic to open the Speaker Note dialog box.

  4. Enter the text in the dialog box and click OK when you have finished. The circle turns green indicating that the speaker note contains text.

    5. You can also enter text in the field that appears in the Properties bar when the Speaker Notes tool is selected. Click Create. The speaker note object appears in the upper left corner of the layout area.

    You can update or delete the text at any time by selecting the speaker note object and updating the text in the field that appears in the Properties bar. Click in the layout area to deselect the speaker note object. The text is updated.

    If you delete the speaker note object, any text that it contains will be deleted.

  5. To display your speaker notes, ensure that you have two monitors connected, and enable the Show Speaker Notes checkbox in the Slide Show palette.

Slide Options

In the Options dialog box, you can define slide properties such as names and transitions. To access the Options dialog box, open the Document Layout palette (Layout | Document Layout). Then double-click the slide you want to configure, or use the palette drop-down menu in the bottom right corner to select Options.

To Set Slide Transitions:

You can set transitions for the current slide or multiple slides. To apply a transition effect to multiple slides, select the slides in the Document Layout palette and open the Options dialog box as previously explained.

  1. To use a transition effect (such as Fade), select Transition to next slide in the Options dialog. If you do not select this option, the slides simply appear in sequence.
  2. Select a transition effect in the pop-up menu. If there are options for the transition effect, the Options button is available. Click the button to open the Transition Options dialog box.
  3. In the Transition Options dialog box, drag the slider to adjust the transition speed from Min (slowest) to Max (fastest). Select a Direction (if available), and then click OK to return to the Options dialog box.
  4. To preview the transition effect, click Try.

  5. Click OK in the Options dialog box to apply the settings to the selected slides.

    Once you have finished setting your options, you are ready to save your presentation as a Canvas X Draw file (.CVD).

  6. Choose File | Save As to open the Save As dialog box.
  7. Enter a name in the File Name field.
  8. Select .CVD for the file format.
  9. Click Save.

Viewing Slide Shows

When you play a Canvas X Draw Presentation, Canvas X Draw displays the document’s slides in order, using the specified transition timing and effects.

A presentation slide show can be set to automatic mode, in which the slide show plays once and stops or repeats continuously. Slide changes also can be controlled by an operator. Canvas X Draw can show slides using a time interval that you specify, or you can control the pace by clicking the mouse to switch to the next slide whenever you are ready.

To Play a Slide Show in Canvas X Draw (.CVD):

  1. Choose File | Open and select the file.
  2. Choose Layout | Slide Show to view the Slide Show palette.
  3. Click Play on the palette. If Advance Every _ Seconds is selected, Canvas X Draw changes slides at the specified interval. Otherwise, click to change slides. Ctrl-click to go back one slide.
  4. To stop the slide show, pres Esc.

If you want the slide show to loop while playing, you must select both Play in loop and Auto advance every _ sec and enter a number in the field. Otherwise, you’ll have to click the mouse to advance the slides.

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