Creating a Standalone Slide Show

Designer lets you create a single executable file that contains your entire slide show, complete with all options and transition effects. After this file is created, you can run your slide show on any computer that has Windows installed, even if Designer is not installed on the computer.

When you create a standalone slide show, all slides are converted to bitmap images. Bitmaps display faster and eliminate the potential problem of not having the required fonts on the target computer.

Setup

The Setup button on the Page Manager ribbon shows your computer's number of colors and lets you set the screen resolution for the target computer (on which you will be playing the slide show).

Designer creates standalone slide shows with the same number of colors currently displayed by your computer. If the target computer displays fewer colors, the slide show colors are dithered.

The Standalone Setup dialog box lets you set the resolution for the target computer's screen. Make sure the resolution you set is supported by the target computer.

If you create your standalone slide show at a lower resolution than the target screen, the slide show is automatically centered on the screen. If you do the opposite (for example, create the slide show at 800x600 but play it at 640x480), the edges of your slides will be clipped.

Options

The Options button on the Page Manager ribbon lets you control several aspects of how the slide show runs. For example, you can choose an image for the mouse pointer, and you can choose to display or not display a pointer.


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To create a standalone slide show