This file contains important information about using the Persuasion Player as a standalone application, and how to use the Player to prepare and deliver your presentation. Most of the information is also available in the Compact Player Guide.
This file contains these sections:
• Installing the Player without Persuasion
• Checklist to prepare for a Player presentation
• Minimum system requirements for running Player files
• Setting up your presentation
• Copying Player files to a Macintosh or Power Macintosh
• Copying Player files to Windows
• Starting your slide show
• Running your slide show
• Annotating your slides
• Ending your slide show
• Persuasion Player for Windows and the Radius MultiView 24 board
Installing the Player without Persuasion
If you received the Windows Persuasion Player as a standalone application (without Persuasion 3.0), double-click the Player icon immediately after installation. This action will register the Player with the Windows File Manager.
Note: If you install the Player when you install Persuasion, you do not need to do this.
Checklist to prepare for a Player presentation
• Your presentation has been exported as a Player file in slide show format and has been saved on a disk formatted for the destination computer (Macintosh, Power Macintosh, or Windows).
• All movie and sound files and any files your Player files jump to are included in the same directory as your Player file.
• The computer you’ll be using meets the recommended system requirements.
• You have the appropriate Player application (Macintosh, Power Macintosh, or Windows).
• If you'll be running a slide show you created on a Macintosh or Power Macintosh in Windows (or vice versa), you’ve removed any movies or sounds that won’t play on the other platform. Only QuickTime movies and sounds will play on both platforms (with QuickTime or QuickTime for Windows installed on their respective platforms).
• If you’ll be running your slide show in Windows, your Player filenames have PPF extensions (for example, 3QSALES.PPF).
Minimum system requirements for running Player files
Macintosh requirements: 68020* processor running under System 6.0.7 or later with 4MB available RAM. Your monitor should be at least 13 inches.**
Power Macintosh requirements: PowerPC RISC processor running under System 7.1.2 or later with 4MB available RAM. Your monitor should be at least 13 inches.**
PC requirements: 80386 processor running under Windows 3.1 or later with 4MB available RAM. Your monitor should be a VGA, 256 colors.**
* Mac II or higher
** On black-and-white or 16-color monitors, colors and patterns will be less smooth; on monitors smaller than 13 inches (640 x 480 pixels), Player screens displayed at full screen may be cropped.
Setting up your presentation
1. Copy the Player application, your Player file(s), and related file(s) onto the computer’s hard disk (see the next two sections for information on how to copy Player files).
2. Disable screen savers, mail, or any other programs that might interrupt the slide show.
3. Double-click the Player application icon (“playerw.exe” in Windows).
4. In the “Open” dialog box, check “Show settings” to view or change the settings for running and ending your slide show.
Copying Player files to a Macintosh or Power Macintosh
Insert the floppy disk(s) into any disk drive, and then drag the folder containing the Player application, Player file icons, and any packaged movie or sound files from the floppy disk onto the hard disk.
Copying Player files to Windows
1. Start Windows and then insert the floppy disk into the disk drive.
2. In the Program Manager, open the Main group and double-click the File Manager icon.
3. In the File Manager, choose “Copy” from the File menu.
4. In the “Copy” dialog box, type “a:\*.*” for “From” and type “c:\” for “To,” and then click “OK.” If you’re using disk drives other than a and c, type those letters instead.
5. In the File Manager, click the icon for the c drive, and then double-click the c:\ directory to view your Player files.
Starting your slide show
From the Finder on a Macintosh or Power Macintosh, or from the File Manager in Windows, double-click the Player application icon (“playerw.exe” in Windows) to start the slide show.
Running your slide show
The following information is available in printed form in the Compact Player Guide included with the product documentation.
To... Do this...
Display or hide the menu bar Press Ctrl + m
Display or hide the control bar Press Shift + Ctrl + c
Change settings Press Ctrl + t
Go to the next slide or layer Click the mouse, or press the right arrow
Go to the previous slide Double-click the mouse, or press the left arrow
Go to the previous slide layer Press Shift + the left arrow
Go to a specific slide Type the slide number and press Return
Go to the first slide Press Home
Go to the last slide Press End
Pause or resume a slide show Press the spacebar
Switch between a blank screen and the current slide Press b or press , (comma)
Switch between a black screen and the current slide Press Shift + b or press . (period)
Turn the cursor on or off Press a
Exit the slide show Press Esc (Windows) or Command + . (period)
(Macintosh or Power Macintosh)
Note: If you’re running your slide show on a Macintosh or Power Macintosh, press Command instead of Ctrl.
Annotating your slides
1. Press Ctrl + m (Command + m on a Macintosh or Power Macintosh) to display the menu bar.
2. Choose “Show annotation tools” from the Annotations menu.
3. Choose the color you want to use.
4. Choose text or pen size, and then type or draw on a slide.
To save your annotations with the Player file, save your file before you exit.
Ending your slide show
• If your slides are set to advance automatically, you can determine how you want your slide show to end. Press Ctrl + t (Command + t on a Macintosh or Power Macintosh) to open the “Settings” dialog box, and then choose an option from the “After last slide” popup menu.
• To exit your slide show, press Esc in Windows or Command + . (period) on a Macintosh or Power Macintosh.
Persuasion Player for Windows and the Radius MultiView 24 board
You must have a VGA video board installed on your PC in order to run the Persuasion Player. The Radius MultiView 24 board is not VGA, however, you can use the terminator plug that is shipped with the board and plug it into the monitor output connector of the VGA adapter to allow the system to recognize VGA.
If you do not have this terminator plug, you can attach the monitor to the VGA board before you turn on the PC, then start the system to the DOS prompt, and then switch the monitor cable to the Radius board. This will enable applications that check for a VGA, such as the Player, to run.
