About Me (Tim Hards)

I am the Chief Software Architect of Perspector. Here you can read about the latest developments from a Perspector insider!

About Perspector

Perspector is a 3D add-in for PowerPoint, designed to make your presentations stand out.

Official Perspector website
Try Perspector
Buy Perspector

Other Blogs

Comments

Please add your comments on anything I have posted about. I am really interested to hear what you think.

Your ideas will be fed into the development of Perspector.

I don't use nofollow, so your comment links will be followed by search engines. This will help increase traffic to your own blog/website. Read about this.

I look forward to hearing your thoughts, Tim.

« | Main | »

Content placeholders

By Tim Hards | May 6, 2007

The Professional Edition of Perspector has an item called a slide placeholder. These can be inserted by inserting a layout from the Perspector panel or from the Slides > Insert Layout menu.

Before Perspector 3.1, slide placeholders could be clicked to insert an image of a PowerPoint slide from the current presentation, or to insert a group of Perspector shapes that represent the selected slide. Here you can see three slide placeholders from Perspector 3.0, one placeholder contains a slide image, the other two are empty:

Slide placeholders (Perspector 3.0)

In Perspector 3.1 these placeholders have been extended to become general content placeholders that can contain either slides or pictures. Here is an example from Perspector 3.1 with an arbitrary picture in one of the placeholders, and a slide image in another:

Content placeholders (Perspector 3.1)

This new functionality in the Perspector layouts allows a whole new set of images to be created easily, using the current set of built-in placeholder layouts. For example, here I used the Left-To-Right Strip layout to line up photos of a few of my colleagues (photos taken from http://www.perspector.com/aboutus.cfm) – this took seconds to create:

Adrian Doyle, Steve Hards, Dr George A. McCaskill

Tags: , ,

Topics: Perspector, Professional Edition, Slide placeholders | No Comments »

Comments