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Perspector lists – overview
By Tim Hards | December 20, 2007
These are all of the posts describing the 3D lists available in Perspector 4.0:
- Introduction to Perspector lists
- The Format List dialog box; the list direction property
- Space and offsets between list items
- The list item “with fixed position”
- Automatic color ranges in lists
- The list rotation property
- The growth per item property
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List property: growth per item
By Tim Hards | December 18, 2007
This post is the last in the series describing each of the Perspector list properties.
The growth properties are used to specify an amount to “grow” each list item by.
Growth properties are only available on lists where each list item is made of only a single shape. So, for example, growth properties are available on the Basic List in the library, but not on the Sphere Bullet Points list (each list item is made from a sphere and a block shape).
There are 2 parts to the growth properties: the type of growth and the amount to grow by.
Linear growth is the simplest. Each list item in the list is a specified amount larger than the previous item. The Expanding List in the library uses a 40 point width growth per item, combined with a 20 point X offset to keep the items left-aligned:
However, growth can also be negative. This is the same list, but the width growth has been changed to -40 point, and the whole list has been resized to make it wide enough:
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List property: rotation
By Tim Hards | December 14, 2007
Continuing the description of Perspector list properties:
The rotation properties are used to rotate each list item about the X, Y or Z axis of the item.
This is a Basic List with a rotation of 30 degrees about the Y-axis per item:
And this is a Basic List with a rotation of 20 degrees about the X-axis per item (the whole list has also been rotated so that you can see the effect more clearly):
Next week I’ll describe the last list property: growth.
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Automatic color ranges in lists
By Tim Hards | December 11, 2007
Continuing the description of Perspector list properties:
When Automatic Color Range is ON, lists are automatically colored with a range of colors from the first item to the last item. This setting is used whenever the colors of the first or last item are manually changed.
The following examples show the result of manually changing the fill color of the last item to white, with and without Automatic Color Range enabled.
The list on the left is the original list.
The list in the middle had the Automatic Color Range turned OFF. The colors of the other items were unchanged when the last item was modified.
The list on the right had the Automatic Color Range turned ON. When the last item was changed, all of the other items were automatically changed to range from blue (the first item) to white (the modified last item).
Note that in both of these examples, the text color used has automatically changed on some of the items so that the text is readable. However this can be overridden by setting the font color if required.
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List item with fixed position
By Tim Hards | December 6, 2007
Continuing the description of list properties in Perspector:
When a list grows with new items, the Item with fixed position property describes which item stays in a fixed position.
Usually the middle item is fixed so that the list stays centered, but this doesn’t always have to be the case. The Fold-out Tabs list in the Perspector library uses a fixed last item to make the list “grow†from the last item. Here is what the same list looks like with 4 items and with 7 items:
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Videos about Perspector
By Tim Hards | December 4, 2007
4 new videos have been added to the Perspector website.
They cover the basics of using Perspector:
- how to add an image from the Perspector library
- how to convert a PowerPoint bullet list
- how to add a chart
- how to add an image of another slide in a presentation
The videos have also been uploaded to YouTube so that you can embed them in your own blogs and websites like this:
How to add an image from the Perspector library
How to convert a PowerPoint bullet list
How to add a 3D chart
How to add an image of another slide in a presentation
I’d be interested to know if you feature these anywhere.
Are there any new videos you’d like to see? Email me or leave a comment.
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