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- ⌐ Copyright, Aldus Corporation, 1991. All rights reserved.
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- ALDUS PERSUASION 2.0 FOR WINDOWS
- A GUIDE TO PERSUASION'S ONLINE TEXT FILES
-
- This file contains two sections:
-
- o A guide to online text files that contain details about
- Persuasion
- o Late-breaking news about Persuasion that's not in the
- printed documentation
-
-
- GUIDE TO ONLINE FILES
-
- The PR2US\TUTORIAL directory contains several files for use
- with the "Getting Started" lessons.
-
- The PR2US\PRES directory contains the presentation files
- PREVIEW.PR2 and XCHARSET.PR2. PREVIEW.PR2 is a sample
- presentation. You can load the file, run it as a slide show,
- and look at all the views to see how a typical Persuasion
- presentation can be put together. XCHARSET.PR2 contains a
- table of ANSI characters and the key codes you can use to
- produce them.
-
- The PR2US directory contains the following text-only (.TXT)
- files. You can use any text editor or word-processing
- program to display or print them. Other disks included in
- the Persuasion package may also contain .TXT files.
-
- 35MMDVRS.TXT -- Information about drivers for use with film
- recorders and slide service bureaus
-
- AUTOTEMP.TXT -- Tips on creating and using Persuasion
- AutoTemplates
-
- COLORTBL.TXT -- Color formulas for all colors in the
- standard color grid in the colors palette
-
- FONTS.TXT -- Details about working with fonts and type
- managers; printing to PCL and PostScript printers
-
- INI.TXT -- Details about the Persuasion settings stored in
- the ALDUS.INI and WIN.INI files
-
- PRNTDVRS.TXT -- Information about new printer drivers
- included with Persuasion
-
-
- LATE-BREAKING PERSUASION NEWS
-
- This section is divided into nine parts:
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- o Disk space considerations
- o A Change to the Documentation
- o Layering Slides
- o Working with Charts, Tables, and Data Sheets
- o Working with Slide Masters
- o Working with Graphics
- o Importing and Exporting Files
- o Printing
- o Running a slide show
- o Using the slide sorter
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- Disk space considerations
-
- Persuasion requires approximately 15k of free space on the disk
- on which a file is saved in order to commit changes to the file.
- In order to make sure that this space is available, it is a
- good idea to work on files which have been saved to a hard disk,
- rather than to a floppy disk. In the event that the disk is
- filled during a work session, your most recent changes may be
- lost. Should this happen, switch to the Windows File Manager
- and remove some files from the disk, or, exit Persuasion and
- copy the file to a disk with more room. Then restart
- Persuasion and reopen the file.
-
-
- A Change to the Documentation
-
- The "Slide setup" and "Notes setup" dialog boxes differ from
- their representation in the printed documentation. The options
- for standard sizes have been replaced with a drop-down list
- box labeled "Slide" or "Page." To specify a non-standard
- --or custom--size, choose "custom" for "Slide" or "Page,"
- and then enter the dimensions you want in the text boxes
- for "Slide dimensions" or "Page dimensions."
-
-
- Layering Slides
-
- The drawing layer must always be an active layer. If you
- forget to include the drawing layer when you specify active
- layers (in the "Set layers" dialog box), Persuasion will
- automatically change the dialog box to add the drawing layer
- to the active layers you've specified.
-
- When assigning automatic layering (the "Build layers..."
- command from the Master menu) to a pie chart, select the "by
- series" option, rather than "by categories."
-
-
- Working with Charts, Tables, and Data Sheets
-
- Even though the maximum dimensions of the data sheet are 256
- by 256, you can enter 8192 values.
-
- When selecting a chart that has a transparent background
- with the pointer or chart tool, click on a visible chart
- element. Also, the upper-left corner to the chart tool icon
- is the "hot spot" for selection.
-
- You cannot import a chart which is part of an Excel 3.0 .XLS
- file; only charts created as .XLC files can be imported.
-
- If you are creating a table that contains soft returns
- (Shift + Enter) in the data, you must enter the soft
- returns on the slide rather than in the data sheet. Enter
- the data without the soft returns in the data sheet, select
- the options you want in the "Chart info" dialog box, and
- then click "OK." Go to the slide containing the table, and
- add the soft returns. Open the "Chart info" dialog box, and
- then click "OK" so that the cells readjust to the new line
- lengths. (Only the first line will display in the data
- sheet, but the table will display accurately on the slide.)
-
- When slides containing placeholder charts are copied and
- pasted to another slide, the new chart on the target slide
- will show a custom format of "none" in the "Chart info"
- dialog box. This is done to preserve any format changes you
- may have added to the chart. You can change the custom
- format assignment to "placeholder" or another custom format
- by selecting the chart, opening the "Chart info" dialog box,
- selecting "placeholder" or a format from the "Custom chart
- format" list, and then clicking "OK.". Keep in mind that by
- doing so, your local overrides to the format will be lost.
-
-
- Working with Slide Masters
-
- When you copy slide masters from an AutoTemplate that uses a
- different page size or orientation, Persuasion displays a
- warning message: "Page size or orientation of imported
- masters does not match target presentation. Text and
- graphics could require significant adjustment. Continue?"
- If you click "OK," the masters will be copied, but you will
- need to check each slide in the presentation and make
- adjustments as necessary.
-
- If you use TIF, or bitmap, images in a custom AutoTemplate,
- copy and paste the images rather than importing them. This
- method ensures that the AutoTemplate is not dependent upon
- an externally-linked image file. Thus, the AutoTemplate will
- be easier to move from one work environment to another.
-
-
- Working with Graphics
-
- TIF images displayed on an 8514 display device which has
- minimum memory (256k) may cause Persuasion to exit
- unexpectedly. If you must display TIF images, add more
- memory to the 8514 display card.
-
-
- Importing and Exporting Files
-
- When exporting text files that have "soft returns" (Shift +
- Enter), Persuasion converts the soft returns into spaces.
-
- The PageMaker Time/Date-Stamp import filter does not work
- with Persuasion. Use the special character codes for time and
- date provided in the Persuasion User Manual.
-
- Word for Windows files (.DOC) containing tables or in-line
- graphics do not import into Persuasion correctly.
-
- To copy and paste TIF files from PageMaker to Persuasion,
- both PageMaker and Persuasion must have a high resolution
- option set. In PageMaker, use "Preferences..." and select
- "High resolution." For Persuasion, set "HiResTiff = 1" in
- ALDUS.INI, and then restart Persuasion.
-
- If portions of an imported graphic disappear when you
- ungroup it, the ungrouped elements have exceeded the
- available memory. Delete the file, and import it again.
-
- For imported EPS files, you must have the appropriate fonts
- available on your computer before you attempt to print your
- slides. You must also download the font to the printer by
- adding a space character from that font to the slide that
- contains the imported EPS file. Otherwise, the EPS file will
- not print.
-
- Exported slides containing graduated-fill backgrounds may
- appear banded when imported to other applications. The
- Windows Metafile format (.WMF) used for exporting slides
- does not provide a method for accurately representing
- graduated fills. As a result, Persuasion exports a close
- approximation of the graduated fill that is a series of
- small rectangles, each with a slightly different color.
-
- To move a slide from one presentation to another, use the
- "Cut" or "Copy" and "Paste" commands. If you use "Export"
- and "Place...," the slide will be imported in Windows
- Metafile format which, if ungrouped, will cause any text to
- be converted to a very small point size. (This problem can
- also be solved by selecting the text and readjusting its
- point size.)
-
- You can receive the message "Filter currently in use by
- another application" under the following conditions: you
- have clicked "Cancel" in the "Place" dialog box, chosen
- "Place...," and then selected the same file type as before.
- To solve this problem, close Persuasion and re-open it
- again.
-
-
- Printing
-
- Twenty-four-bit color TIF images may print unpredictably
- when using the HP Paintjet Series 1.0 printer driver. If the
- printing fails, try again. Printing a second time may be
- successful. Alternatively, try the HP Paintjet Series printer
- driver that came with Microsoft Windows.
-
- If a pie chart contains a wedge with an angle greater than
- 180 degrees, it can print with missing lines in the depth
- portion of the chart on a Hewlett-Packard Laserjet printer
- under the following conditions: you are printing at a
- resolution of 300 dpi, and you have chosen the option "Proof
- print."
-
- Objects pasted into a presentation from Adobe Typealign,
- which have then been stretched or moved, may not be printed
- in the correct locations on PostScript printers. To correct
- this problem, edit the "CustomPlayMetafile" entry in
- ALDUS.INI to be equal to "0". If you have similar
- difficulties with other applications, remove this entry from
- ALDUS.INI.
-
-
- Running a slide show
-
- When you want to run a slide show on a different machine
- than the one on which it was created, be sure that the
- target machine has the fonts you used in your presentation.
- Otherwise, you may encounter font substitutions that alter
- the look of your slides.
-
-
- Using the slide sorter
-
- You may encounter unexpected text on neighboring slides in
- the slide sorter under the following conditions: you have
- collapsed an organization chart in Outline view to either
- the title level or a lower level, you selected that slide in
- the slide sorter, you copied and pasted it to a new location,
- and then you chose "Undo." To solve the problem, select the
- slide on which the unexpected text has occurred and choose
- "Reapply master." Do not attempt to delete the spurious
- text.
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