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Is it possible to create a slideshow from pages?
I am creating a presentation with over 80 pages and at times need to be able to skip ahead to a different page rather than sequentianly.
I have searched the help files but can't find an answer. I would be gratful for any help.
Ted

Slideshow? As in auto advancing?
Just create an action using ticker and go-to-page. Trigger could be mouse-over some icon, or other trigger you want.


If you don't mind getting into scripting/advanced area, take a look at Mack's website for table of contents.
viewtopic.php?t=2705&highlight=interaktiv

Otherwise you could look at Opus' Quickbuild features... I think there is a Menu Builder (or similarly named) feature.

Thanks Lar
I seem to have missed a bit of info in my request for help.
What I would like is a page displaying thumbnails of the pages that are in the project. I know that I can do this by creating the pages in Photoshop and saving as a bitmap then impoting them, but this seems a long way around.
There must be a way to do this but I can't seem to fathom it out
Ted

Ted,
... a bit of a long reply and a scattered array of ideas.
I cannot imagine putting 80 thumbnails on one page. But more important, you do not say whether this publication will be revised often (if it is, you'll want to automate the routine versus taking a shortcut approach resulting in quicker/easier, but more 'static' result).

-- getting thumbnails.
If you do all of your screen captures manually during play or review of the Pub, save them quickly into any folder. Then use IrfanView (free). It has a batch conversion feature. Look under 'Advanced', and you can specify your resize scaling there... along with auto renaming.

-- mouseover menu and thumbnails
Do a search on the Forum.
You'll find things like this: viewtopic.php?t=3548&highlight=menu
May be adaptable for what you want.

-- use Windows Explorer to 'group' thumbnails
Browse your thumbnail Folder, and take a screen capture of that. Repeat process after scrolling to the next 'set' of ~15 thumbs.
Then you can bring approx. 6 pages of thumbs into Opus. Put them in a MultiFrame or a long oversize, scrolling Frame.
The trick might be to have an overlay frame where you create 15 Hotspots... to click on at runtime. (you'd have to account for which of the 6 proof-sheets you were on).

-- more advance approach, use scripting and arrays to refresh Image objects (how ever many you fit on an Opus page) from calling up the thumb filenames. Worth doing if you'll be changing your Pub a lot.

-- you might want to place such 'control methods' in a separate Chapter, and show it in its own window.... minimize automatically upon selection, etc etc.

-- it seems a number of folks here use two monitors... so that the navigation can be done without audience getting distracted by pop-ups or lists or menus.

-- Opus itself could be pretty good at "bringing you a 'look ahead' and a 'look back' " of say 5 pages, even do the scaling. (still need the prior captures or thumbs)

-- A Listbox is another option. Could easily be populated dynamically with Page Titles. Then use mouseovers possibly... and certainly selection clicks to bring up image of page.
Much of the basics of this is covered in Interactiv link, and on several other forum posts.

Good luck. Post back when you've got something worked up... would be good to see.

Great ideas Lar. I'll work around them and post back the results. I like the list box idea but as the project will be used by others I'll see what they like.
Some of these people aren't computer savvy and the project will have to 'spoon -feed' them.

Ted

I was hoping it is possible to play flipchart pages as a continous slide show so that they automatically change after a set number of seconds and then start again. Does anyone know if ActivPrimary can do this?

Is this really the question you wanted to ask here?

Please start a new Topic/thread if you have a specific issue/objective for using OpusPro or other Digital Workshop product (see Creator, Presenter, etc sections).

Lar
The simplest way I've found which I have implemented was to create a table from Quickbuild menu with the required no. of cells, number them and link to to these pages.
Ted

Ted,

So you've given up on thumbnail images?

Maybe you could take what you've done with Quickbuild and your plain text labels... and add a Mouse-Over action for each that would open a pop-up very small image (automatically pointing to image for that page using serial index). Or Rollover object in stead of MO. Opus may be able to convert existing type to RO.