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Alignment in 3D
By Tim Hards | April 30, 2008
This month’s Perspector newsletter discusses how to use the alignment and distribute commands. If you missed it, sign up to make sure you receive future issues.
The shape alignment commands are accessed via the Draw menu on the Perspector Drawing toolbar. Perspector offers horizontal alignment, vertical alignment, and alignment according to the 3D depth position.
Although the alignment commands appear to line shapes up correctly, they are not always lined up exactly. For example, after using Align Bottom on a set of spheres, you will get this:
The bottom of the spheres aren’t lined up exactly:
What’s going on? The reason for this is that the alignment commands use the bounding boxes that surround the spheres:
This happens with any shapes, not just spheres. There’s currently no way around this, but I’ll keep you informed if this changes.
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Save as Picture…
By Tim Hards | April 24, 2008
The next version of Perspector (free to v4.0 users) will include a new command: Save as Picture.
With this new command you can save Perspector images directly to picture files.
Previously I described how you could use PowerPoint’s “Save as Picture” command to do this. The downside of this technique is that you had to finish editing your image and drop back into PowerPoint. But now you’ll be able to do this from inside Perspector without leaving the editor. Another advantage of the new command is that you can specify the size of picture you’d like.
Images can be saved using any of these picture formats: BMP, PNG, GIF, JPEG, and TIFF.
Are there any other formats you would like Perspector to export to? Picture format or otherwise. You can email me, or leave a comment here.
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Professionelle 3D-Grafiken ganz easy
By Tim Hards | April 11, 2008
Continuing the German theme, I have now uploaded a German version of the overview presentation I blogged about earlier this week.
If you are reading this on the perspectorinsider.com website, you should see be able to see the presentation here:
As before, the areas around the 3D images from slide 6 onwards aren’t displayed properly - download the presentation if you want to see them as they were intended.
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Perspector on PowerPoint-TV
By Tim Hards | April 10, 2008
The latest installment of PowerPoint-TV (in German) discusses Perspector. They highlight the variety of library images that are available.
The presentation of Perspector starts at 10:10 in programme 19.
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Easy 3D Business Graphics
By Tim Hards | April 8, 2008
I have uploaded an overview of Perspector to the presentation sharing website, SlideShare:
(If the presentation isn’t displayed above, see the presentation on SlideShare.)
From slide 6 onward, the backgrounds of the 3D images aren’t properly shown. Download the presentation to see it correctly.
If you upload any of your own Perspector presentations to SlideShare, please tag them perspector. Here are all the perspector-tagged presentations so far: http://www.slideshare.net/tag/perspector
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Using 3D images on a website
By Tim Hards | April 1, 2008
In the March newsletter sent out last week, 4 new images were added to the library: Wind Left, Wind Right, Common Item, Bars (Left).
Because of their look, the Wind images (as in “wind the clocks” rather than “the wind is strong”) are ideally suited to be used outside of a presentation. For example, they would make great images to use on a website page to illustrate the range or variety of services offered:
The above image is simply a Wind Right list, with an arrow added at the top.
To save a Perspector image as a picture so that it can be used outside of a presentation, right-click the finished Perspector image and click “Save as Picture…”.
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