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Perspector 4.2
By Tim Hards | August 15, 2008
The recent release of Perspector 4.2 coincided with our new Perspector Lists tool. Owners of Perspector 4.0 and 4.1 can upgrade to 4.2 for free, and the functionality of Perspector Lists is included in Standard Edition and Professional Edition.
The biggest improvement in Perspector 4.2 is how colors are handled when inserting images from the Perspector Library.
Previously, Perspector would try and match your presentation’s color scheme. For example, if you inserted this list from the Perspector Library:
into your gold-themed presentation, it might have come out looking like this:
Perspector 4.2 will give you the choice to do this, or to use the original library colors:
This choice is now also provided if you copy your images to other presentations if your images use presentation scheme colors that are different from the ones in the new presentation.
See a full list of the Perspector 4.2 changes.
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Perspector Lists
By Tim Hards | August 13, 2008
At the weekend, we released a new tool: Perspector Lists. With it you can create new 3D lists in your PowerPoint presentations:
You can also apply Perspector list styles to existing bullet-point lists on PowerPoint slides to transform them. These are the list styles in Perspector Lists.
Perspector Lists is available for an attractive $29.90.
If you already have Perspector Standard Edition or Professional Edition, you will already have the features of Perspector Lists. We decided to make them available in a separate tool to give our users more choice of Perspector tools.
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Create new Perspector list styles
By Tim Hards | February 6, 2008
I previously wrote about changing the properties of existing Perspector lists. Useful to adjust the form of a list selected from the library, but you might want to create a new style of list. Here is how you can create a list from scratch not based on any of the existing list styles.
The first thing to do is insert all of the shapes of the first list item. This could be a single shape or multiple shapes.
One of the shapes will be the main text shape of the list item. Select this shape and type “._[Text]”, i.e. period, underscore, [Text]. This changes the shape into a text placeholder.
Then select all of the shapes that will form the first list item, and choose Tools, Create List.
You will now be shown the Format List dialog box. See the list properties blog posts for a description of each of the properties. Set all the properties for the new list. The list properties can be changed at any time in the future in the same way as any other list.
When you are done setting the list properties, the new list is ready to use. Click the text placeholder shape and press Enter a few times to add some new list items.
If you are using the Professional Edition, you can add the new list to Perspector by opening the Perspector Panel from the Perspector add-in toolbar in PowerPoint, and clicking Add image to User’s Images. After doing this, the list is available for insertion from View User’s Images. The Convert Bullet List command will now also be able to use the new list style.
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3D lists on website
By Tim Hards | January 9, 2008
The Perspector gallery pages have now been updated. You can see all the 3D lists that were added with Perspector 4.0.
Are there any other list styles you’d like to see? Please let me know. Thanks!
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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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Space and offset between list items
By Tim Hards | November 30, 2007
Continuing my discussion of list properties, here is an explanation of the space and offset properties.
Space between list items
The space value controls how far apart the list items are.
This is a Tube List Items 1 list, with an ample 20 points between items:
And this is the same list with a snug -10 (minus 10) points:
Offset between list items
The offset values describe an additional distance between each list item.
This is a Tube List Items 1 list, with an X offset of 20 points between each item:
Below is another Tube List Items 1 list. This one uses a Z offset of 75 points to bring the lower items closer, and a -20 point space between items to reduce the vertical gaps:
In the next post I will describe the Item with fixed position property.
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