Creating slideshows for MMS devices
You can create a slideshow of images, audio, and text for MMS devices.
To create and edit slideshows: - Open a MMS document.
- Select the Message tab of the MMS Compatible Mobile Device Inspector.
- To add a slide, click Create New Item
. - To edit a slide, select the slide and do any of the following:
- To set the amount of time before the next slide displays, enter a number of seconds in the Duration text box.
- To add an image and/or audio to the slide, select Image and/or Audio. Reference a file in the text box adjacent to the option you selected.
- To add text to a slide, select Text, and reference a text file in the adjacent text box. The text in the text file displays in the text box below. To change the text in the referenced text file and that will display in the device, modify the text that appears in the bottom text box and click Replace. To add text directly, without referencing a file, simply enter your text in the window, and then click Replace. (You must save the MMS document before you can add text directly.)
- To change a slide's location relative to the other slides, click the up and down arrow buttons.
- To delete a slide, click the Delete button.
- To define the slideshow's maximum size, choose one of the following from the Max. Data Size menu in the Slideshow tab of the MMS Compatible Mobile Device Inspector:
- A preset kilobyte value.
- None to set no maximum size for the slideshow.
- Custom to define a kilobyte value that isn't listed in the menu. Enter a number of kilobytes in the text box below the Max. Data Size menu.
- Select one of the following:
- Use Mobile Phone Color Profile to apply the MMS device's color profile to the slideshow. (For more information on setting the device's color profile, see Creating and displaying MMS documents.)
- No Color Profile.
- Click Create Slideshow. To add an entire folder of images, select the folder and click Add. To add individual images, select an image and click Add.
- To use images, text, or sound from the Album tab of the inspector in a slide, select a slide in the Message tab of the inspector. In the Album tab, select the item you want to use and choose Add Text/Image/Sound To Slide or Replace Text/Image/Sound In Slide from the palette menu.
- To add media to the Album tab of the inspector, choose Add Media To Album from the palette menu.
- To add an MMS card to the album, choose Add MMS To Album from the palette menu. The current slideshow is converted to an MMS card and added to the Album. MMS cards are SMIL files, complete with links to images, text, and audio. To replace a slideshow with an MMS card, right-click (Windows) or Option-click (Mac OS) and choose Use MMS Card from the menu that appears.
- To preview the MMS presentation as a QuickTime movie, choose Export MMS As Movie from the Inspector palette menu.
To optimize MMS presentations: - Open a MMS presentation.
- Choose MMS Optimizer in the Inspector palette menu.
- In the MMS Messages section of the MMS Optimizer dialog box, click the Create New Item button.
- In the Open dialog box, add the items you want to optimize to the Select Item To Add text box and click Done.
- To preview a MMS Message, select the file in the list of Messages and then click the Play button
. To stop the playback, click the Stop button . - Select one or more devices in the MMS Device list for which you want to optimize the MMS messages, and click Add.
- To change a mobile device's color profile, select the device and click Profile. Set options in the Save For Web dialog box, and click Save.
- Click Optimize. In the Browse For Folder dialog box, select a location for the optimized messages, and click OK.
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