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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:
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:
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:
Tags: 3D, PowerPoint, PowerPoint slides
Topics: Perspector, Professional Edition, Slide placeholders |
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