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Perspector 3.1.1: PNG pictures in 3D

By Tim Hards | May 18, 2007

We have just released Perspector 3.1.1. This minor update now allows PNG pictures to be inserted!

Also if any inserted picture has transparent areas, these are kept (unfortunately this doesn’t work with PowerPoint 2000 - those areas still go black).

Here you can see a clip art PNG picture used with the Free-Floating layout that is available with Professional Edition. Because the placeholders for the picture are already positioned, this image took 1 minute to create. Without layouts it is still possible to create the image, but it will take a little longer because the pictures have to be manually placed.

Time to create: 1 minute.

Tags: 3D, PowerPoint, PNG, clipart, clip art

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

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