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Presenter-to-Go
Secure Digital (SD)
&
Memory Stick (MS)
User’s Guide
Presenter-to-Go MS is Presenter-to-Go SD is
compatible with all MS-enabled compatible with all SD-enabled
Sony CLIE handhelds Palm handhelds
Includes Instructions For:
• Presenter-to-Go Palm OS Presentation Application with File Creation
Support on Windows 98, Millennium, 2000, XP, NT4 and Mac OS 9.
• MARGI Mirror Palm OS Graphics Display Application.
MARGI Systems, Inc. • Fre
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Table of Contents 1. Introduction.........................................................................4 Your Product Packaging Contains: .........................................4 2. System Requirements ...........................................................5 Handheld...........................................................................5 Desktop or Laptop...............................................................5 Display Device...........................................
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Menu: Show.....................................................................31 Hide All, Show All..............................................................31 Reset Order .....................................................................31 Auto Advance ...................................................................31 Menu: Options..................................................................32 Preferences......................................................................
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1. Introduction ™ ™ Thank you for purchasing Presenter-to-Go by MARGI Systems . Presenter-to-Go is available as a Secure Digital (SD) Card for Palm’s® line of personal assistants and a ™ ™ ™ Memory Stick (MS) for Sony CLIE handhelds. It comes with two Palm applications that allow the Palm to be used as a presentation tool in two distinctly different ways: 1. Using “Presenter-to-Go” PC software and its associated Palm application, a user can ® compress and load images from PowerPoin
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2. System Requirements In order to completely create and display presentations using Presenter-to-Go it is necessary to have a Palm or Sony handheld, a desktop or laptop computer, and a display device. The corresponding system requirements are listed below: Handheld • A Palm handheld with Palm OS 4.0 (or higher) and SD support or a Sony CLIE handheld with Palm OS 4.0 (or higher) and MS support. Desktop or Laptop • 32 MB RAM • 50 MB Hard Drive ® • Windows 98, 98SE, Millennium, 2000,
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Fig. 3.1: Selection of Software Installation Destination You will then get the following message at the end of the installation. If you wish to register the product at this time, click “Next”. If you do not wish to register the product at this time, simply uncheck the box below and then click “Next”. Fig. 3.2: Setup Product Registration 6
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Fig. 3.3: Setup Complete Click “Finish” and, if registration was selected, you will be brought to the Presenter-to-Go registration page through your internet browser. Un-Installing the PC Creation Software. When updating PC software versions, it is recommended that you remove the old PC creation application software prior to installing the new version. This can be done by following the procedure below: 1. Go to Settings/Control Panel/Add/Remove Programs 2. Scroll and highlight
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Fig. 3.4: Installing the Handheld Application After you click on the “Finish” button during the PC software install, the screen in Fig. 3.4 will appear. If you would like to install the Presenter-to-Go software on your handheld during your next HotSync, click “Yes”. Fig. 3.5: User List The screen in Fig 3.5 will appear and provide you with a list of users whose devices you may install the Presenter-to-Go Palm software on. Please add the user you wish to Sync the software for
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Fig. 3.7: Presenter-to-Go Desktop Transfer Tutorial Presentation to Handheld Select the presentation “Palm_Tutorial.pdb” from the “Presentation List” and click “Transfer”. Next time you HotSync “Palm_Tutorial” will be transferred to the handheld. Installing the Presenter-to-Go & MARGI Mirror Palm software on your handheld from the Presenter-to-Go desktop. Click on the “Install App” button. You will then get the message in Fig. 3.6. Click on “OK”. The next time you HotSync
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Fig. 3.8: Add/Remove Programs Now, you’re ready to start making your mobile presentations 4. Creating Your Presentation ® Presenter-to-Go presentations can be created directly from within Microsoft PowerPoint ® or from any Windows application that has print driver support. The processes are slightly different. Creating Presentations from within Microsoft PowerPoint on your desktop PC (or laptop): The Presenter-to-Go driver provides a button icon on the PowerPoint toolbar
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Fig. 4.1 Typical PowerPoint Screen with Presenter-to-Go Icon Complete your PowerPoint presentation as you normally would, taking notice of the note below. Note: Presenter-to-Go does not support any slide-transitions, animation, or audio/video ® features available in Microsoft PowerPoint . Only static slides are supported. Click on the Presenter-to-Go icon and the following occur automatically: 1. Conversion of PowerPoint file into the compressed mobile presentation
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Fig. 4.2 Presenter-to-Go Creator dialog box The Presenter-to-Go Creator dialog box allows you to Change the name of the presentation. To change the name, simply change the name in the “Presentation Name” box. Press the “Create” button, to create a mobile presentation. In order to append the presentation to a presentation in the “Presentations List”, select a presentation from the “Presentations List”. That name will automatically appear in the “Append To” line. Clicking on th
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Fig. 5.3 The Presenter-to Go Desktop dialog box Your presentation will appear in the “Presentations List”. This list shows all the presentations that are ready to be transferred into the HotSync bin for the next HotSync operation into your handheld. The button functions are described below: Note: The buttons offer context- sensitive tool-tips, meaning that if you slide the cursor over the button, an explanation of the button – function will appear. Transfer Transfers the sel
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Note: If you have Queued a presentation but prior to HotSync decide that you don’t want that presentation, it can be removed in the Palm Desktop Application by clicking on the “Install Tool” icon, and then highlighting the file you don’t want to transfer and selecting REMOVE. Note: If you created a presentation but did not Queue it before quitting, you can get that presentation by selecting START then Program Files then MARGI then Presenter-to-Go. This will bring up the “Presenter-to-
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save the balance of the document as additional slides until all the material is presented. 2. The Presenter-to-Go Creator dialog window will appear with the name taken from the printing application in the document name box. You can rename the mobile presentation document. If you try to create another presentation with the same name that already exists in the queue, you will have an option to overwrite or rename it something different. Note: Sometimes Windows defaults the Prese
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After the presentation is Queued then, you can perform a HotSync to get the presentation into the Palm handheld. 5. Mac Software Installation/Setup This is only available to Palm-brand handheld users. Installing the Presenter-to-Go Creation Software. Important Notice: Close all applications prior to beginning the installation process. Check that your computer meets the System Requirements for operating system and hardware requirements described in Section 2. Double-click on the
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Creating Presentations from within Microsoft PowerPoint on your desktop (or laptop): The Presenter-to-Go driver provides a button icon on the PowerPoint toolbar like the icon above. It is shown in the Fig. 6.1, and can be found at the far right of the toolbar. Note: You must select Presenter-to-Go as your printer in the Chooser to use this function. Fig. 6.1 Typical PowerPoint Screen with Presenter-to-Go Icon Complete your Power
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1. Conversion of PowerPoint file into the compressed mobile presentation format. The Presenter-to-Go “Presentation Name” will be pre-filled with the same name as the PowerPoint file. 2. The “Presenter-to-Go Creator” dialog box will appear, as shown in Fig. 6.2. Fig. 6.2 Presenter-to-Go Creator dialog box The Presenter-to-Go Creator dialog box allows you to change the name of the presentation. To change the name, simply change the name in the “Name” box. Press the “Creat
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Fig. 6.3 Presenter-to-Go Archive List Clicking on the “Create” button will now append the current mobile presentation to the existing presentation listed on the “Append pages to existing presentation” line. Documents previously transferred to the Palm are saved in the Presenter-to-Go Archive List. To append a new document to an archived document, click the “Archive List” button. A list of previous presentations will show in the “Archived Presentations” area of a new window. You
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Fig. 6.4 The Presenter-to Go Desktop dialog box Your presentation will appear in the” Presentations” list. This list shows all the presentations that are ready to be transferred into the HotSync bin for the next HotSync operation into your Palm. The button functions are described below: Note: The buttons offer context- sensitive tool-tips, meaning that if you slide the cursor over the button, an explanation of the button –function will appear, if you have “Show Balloons” activat
