Slideshow Presentations

Designer Pro X10 can produce a special type of Supersite called a Web Presentation. These are very like Microsoft PowerPoint slideshow presentations, except they are websites that anyone can view - no special software plug-ins or players needed to view. Version 10 has simplified the process of creating such Presentations: • Simpler ways of creating and viewing the steps on each slide • Presentations automatically scale to fit to any browser window size • Two aspect ratio ‘empty’ templates, 16x10 wide-screen and 4:3 traditional (old) screen aspect ratio. (16x10 is a better compromise for some wide-screen monitors and tablets that are not exactly 16:9, and it’s not so squashed. But you can create any aspect ratio you require of course.) • New smooth ‘Supersite’ page transitions This is the Presentation control bar that appears when you create a new Presentation document. (Incidentally, these call-outs are SmartShapes - see below) Each slide of the Presentation is a new page, and you can have any number of layers (Presentation steps) that animate onto each slide.  Although presentation steps use layers, you do not have to use the Page & Layer Gallery to create or edit your presentation. The above Presentation controls appear top right when you create a Presentation document (File > New > Presentation) Presentation websites are Supersites, so they provide fast and slick page animation, ‘fit-to-screen’ and can be driven using the keyboard arrows keys, page up and down keys, and swipe actions on touch devices. Here’s an example Presentation (using one of a range of presentation templates included free), that demonstrates some of the possible page transitions:  http://xaragroup.magix.net/presentation1/ Use the arrow keys to step through the steps on each slide. Try adjusting the size of your browser window, or rapidly flicking through the pages using the Page Up /Down keys. Note: A small change in the behaviour of Presentations is that when returning to a page (slide) you’ve previously been to, it returns to the exact state it was left - i.e. with the same step position. Older versions always returned to the first step of each slide.