• You can select an individual slide or group of slides in the Slide Sorter, choose "Cut" or "Copy" from the Edit menu, and paste the slides into the Slide Sorter of another presentation.
• To delete slides from a presentation, select the slide or group of slides and then choose "Clear" from the Edit menu.
• If you have an automatic or manual slide show running and the Caps Lock key is down, the transition effects will be disabled.
• If you save several presentations with the "Start Persuasion in slide show" option checked from the "Slide Show" of the File menu, you can have Persuasion automatically display each slide show in sequence. The presentations will open in the order that you selected them on the desktop if you are viewing by icon. Otherwise, the presentations will open in alphabetical order. Be sure you select multiple files by holding down the Shift key and clicking.
• The "Line spacing" dialog box has been changed to allow you to set up spacing in points or percentages. To specify a setting for line spacing, choose "Line spacing" from the Text menu. Then change "Auto" to the desired value, or choose "Fixed" to change the line spacing setting to points. You can also set the spacing above and below a paragraph in this dialog box.
Aldus Persuasion for the Macintosh, version 2.1.2, supports the new Apple QuickTime technology. With the new "movie" data type, QuickTime makes it easy to incorporate time-based data (such as video clips, animated charts, and presentations) into Persuasion. You can add existing movies to presentations by using the "Import..." command on the Persuasion File menu. You can also paste movies that were cut or copied from Persuasion or another application. (See the section on cut/copy/paste later in this document for more information.) Once you place a movie in a presentation, you can manipulate the movie in the same way as any other graphic (for example, resize it, move it, and duplicate it). You can also play movies during a slide show.
However, to play properly from a locked diskette or a CD, QuickTime 1.5 is required.
In Persuasion, you can import a movie in any graphics mode (slide, note page, or master).
To import a movie:
1. Choose "Import..." from the File menu.
2. Select a movie, and then click "OK" in the "Import" dialog box.
The number of movies you can import is limited only by your computer memory. We recommend that you set the memory size for the application to at least 3 MB while running QuickTime. (To set memory, quit Persuasion, click the Persuasion application icon, and then choose “Get info” from the Finder File menu. In the “Persuasion 2.1 Info” dialog box, enter a new number in the “Current size” edit box.)
In Persuasion, you can also play movies in any graphics mode (slide, note page, or master).
To play a movie:
• Double-click the mouse anywhere on the movie.
To pause a movie:
• Click the mouse once.
To specify playing a movie with a slide show running:
• Check the "Play Movies" option in the "Slide show" dialog box. (To open the "Slide show" dialog box, choose "Slide show..." from the File menu.)
When a movie is not playing, it appears as a static PICT and a badge icon appears at the lower-left corner of the movie frame. Select the movie, and then click the badge-icon arrow to open the drop-down menu. Or, hold down the Option key and click anywhere on the movie.
The commands on the badge-icon menu allow you to control the movie when the standard movie playbar is hidden.
Select: To do this:
"Play" Play the movie from the current frame. If the current
frame is the last frame, the movie will play from the beginning.
"Sound On" Toggle the audio tracks on or off. If the sound is on, the command is "Sound Off."
"Show Play Bar" Display the standard movie playbar. If the movie playbar is on the screen already, the command is "Hide Play Bar."
"Set Poster Frame" Designate the current frame as the poster frame.
"Show Poster Frame" Display the poster frame.
"Restore Original Size" Scale the movie frame to the original size.
QuickTime automatically compensates for the particular hardware on which it is running. Therefore, you may experience loss of frames or audio under certain conditions. When a movie has been stretched to a much larger size then the original, there is more screen to update so performance may be affected.
In Persuasion, you can cut, copy, paste and clear movies in any graphics mode (slide, note page, or master). When you cut or copy a movie from a Persuasion document, Persuasion preserves the current frame of the movie. A PICT matching the current frame of the movie is also transferred to the Clipboard, so that applications that do not support movies can retrieve an image. When you paste the movie into Scrapbook or into another document, it will be cued to the frame open at the time you cut or copied the movie.
