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The slide beneath the Perspector window
By Tim Hards | May 6, 2007
When editing images with Perspector, the edit window used to obscure the PowerPoint slide behind it:
Perspector 3.1 now lets you see the slide beneath the shapes:
This is something that users asked for. As you can see it makes it easier to see how the 3D shapes fit in with the rest of the items on the slide.
Originally, when we implemented this for 3.1 we went with a totally clear transparency effect. Initially this looked good but we quickly realised that it was confusing because you couldn’t immediately tell what was in the Perspector frame (i.e. the shapes you were editing) and what was behind it (the other items on the slide). As you can see in the example above, the solution we settled on was to simply darken the transparency effect so that the shapes being edited clearly stand out from the rest of the slide.
You can change the level of the background transparency to suit you. Tools > Options > Window background gives you the choice of different levels of transparency, including a solid editing background (the only choice in the earlier versions of Perspector):
If you want a totally transparent window, choose 100% Transparent. If you want to return to how it used to be before Perspector 3.1, choose Solid.
Tags: 3D, PowerPoint
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