Adobe Presenter 6

View a presentation in an Acrobat Connect Professional meeting

After you publish a presentation to a Connect Enterprise server and then add the presentation to an Acrobat Connect Professional meeting, the presentation is ready to view. All of the features in the presentation, such as audio, synchronized animation, quizzes, and presenter information, appear.

Note: If you upload your presentations directly from your computer and into an Acrobat Connect Professional meeting, some Presenter presentation features, such as presenter photos and presenter logos, are not supported. Adobe recommends adding presentations to Acrobat Connect Professional meetings from the Content library.

If the presentation contains quiz or survey questions, user interactions with the questions are fully tracked by the Connect Enterprise server as part of the meeting’s reports.

The layout of a Presentation consists of the following parts:

Presentation
The main part of the window, which displays the presentation slides.

Presentation sidebar
An area on the right side (default location) of the browser window that shows the name of the presentation, the presenter information, and the Outline, Thumb, Notes, and Search panes (if you have added the panes to your theme) The Presentation sidebar is shown in Normal view; it is hidden in Full Screen view.

Presentation toolbar
A control bar at the bottom of the presentation, which gives you control over the presentation playback, audio, attachments, and screen size.

Viewing the Outline pane

Most presentations have an Outline pane on the sidebar. The Outline pane lists the title and duration of each slide. Use the Outline pane to display information and to enable users to move to individual slides in the presentation. You can omit the Outline pane from the sidebar. At this time, it is not possible to show the slide outline in a read-only format; if the outline is showing, users will be able to click the slides listed.

Note: Quiz slides are not, by default, listed in the Outline pane. If you want quiz slides to appear in the Outline, open the Quiz Manager, click Edit Quiz Settings, and select the Show questions in outline option.
Note: If you have a Windows XP English PC and need to view double-byte unicode characters (for example, Japanese characters) in the outline pane, you should have the Arial Unicode MS font installed on your computer.
 Click the Outline pane in the sidebar on the right side.

The Outline pane contains the following features:

  • The current slide is highlighted with a glow color. (This color can be changed in the theme.)

  • The entire slide title appears when the pointer is held over the title.

  • The duration of the slide is shown next to each slide.

  • You can move to any slide in the presentation by clicking the slide title in the Outline pane.

The Outline pane

A.
Selected slide currently previews

B.
Hover cursor over title to see the entire title

View the Thumb pane

Presentations can have a Thumb pane on the sidebar. The Thumb pane shows a small picture of each slide, the slide title, and the slide duration. You can use the Thumb pane to see the contents each slide quickly and to move to a specific slide in the presentation.

Note: If you upload your presentations directly from your computer and into an Acrobat Connect Professional meeting, the Thumb pane is not displayed. Adobe recommends adding presentations to Acrobat Connect Professional meetings from the Content library.
 Click the Thumb pane in the sidebar on the right side.

The Thumb pane contains the following features:

  • The current slide is highlighted with a glow color. (This color can be changed in the theme.)

  • The entire slide title appears when the pointer is held over the title.

  • You can move to any slide in the presentation by clicking the slide title in the Thumb pane.

View slide notes

When creating a presentation in PowerPoint, you can enter notes for individual slides. If any slide notes exist, they can be displayed in the Presentation.

Note: Using slide notes is optional.

When slide notes appear, they are located on the right side of the presentation window. You cannot change the size of the slide Notes pane.

 Click the Notes pane in the sidebar on the right side.

The complete notes text is displayed. (The text is unformatted and cannot be edited directly on the pane.)

Search for text in a presentation

Users can use the Search pane (if you have included it in your theme) to find specific text in a presentation. For example, in a presentation that serves as a company human resources handbook, a user might search for the word vacation to find text about vacation leave policies.

  1. Click the Search pane in the sidebar on the right side.
  2. Type the text to search for directly into the text box. (Search is not case-sensitive.)
  3. Click the Search button.

    Search results are displayed below the text box. Click any slide title in the results list to display that slide.

    Using the Search pane

    A.
    Text box

    B.
    Search button

    C.
    Results

Use the presentation toolbar

You can control the presentation appearance and playback by using the toolbar located at the bottom of the presentation.

The toolbar that appears in the published presentation contains useful buttons, controls, and messages.

A.
Play

B.
Back

C.
Forward

D.
Position marker in slide progress bar

E.
Current slide time

F.
Total slide time

G.
Audio volume

H.
Attachments

I.
Show/Hide sidebar

 Click any of the following buttons and features on the toolbar.
Play/Pause button
Pauses and then resumes play of the current slide.

Back button
Moves to the previous slide in the presentation.

Forward button
Moves to the next slide in the presentation.

Slide progress bar
Shows and controls the playback location within the current slide. The position marker moves as the slide plays. You can drag the marker arrow forward or back in the current slide to change your location within the slide playback. You can also click a specific location on the progress bar to move the slide marker position and slide playback to that position. (If you added a video file, such as a “talking head” video file of a person speaking, the slide progress bar also controls the video.)

Current slide number
Shows the number of the currently displayed slide and the total number of slides (for example, Slide 2 out of 10).

Status
Shows the status of the current slide, such as Playing, Stopped, No audio, or Presentation complete.

Time
Shows the current slide time and the total slide time as the slide plays (for example, 00.02/00.05).

Audio volume
Shows the volume level that is set for the slide.

Attachments
Displays a small window showing any attachments (for example, documents, spreadsheets, images, URL addresses, and so on) that have been added.

Show/Hide sidebar and toolbar
Shows or hides the sidebar and toolbar.
Note: The behavior of the Forward button, Back button, and slide outline can be affected by settings in the Quiz Manager. For example, if a learner must pass a quiz before continuing, clicking the forward button or a slide in the outline that is beyond the quiz slide will have no effect unless the learner has passed the quiz.

Switch between viewing modes

You can view Presentations in two modes:

Normal
The default viewing mode. It includes the presentation toolbar at the bottom of the browser window and the presentation sidebar.

Full-screen
An optional viewing mode in which the presentation toolbar is removed and the size of the presentation slides increases to fill your browser window.

  1. Click the Full Screen button at the bottom (lower right) of the Presenter viewer.

    If the presentation outline was originally visible, the Presentation switches to full-screen mode without a presentation sidebar. If a presentation outline is not originally visible, the Presentation switches to full-screen mode with no toolbar.

  2. Click the Full Screen button again to change viewing modes.

    If presentation controls are originally visible, the presentation switches to full-screen mode without a presentation outline or presentation toolbar. If a presentation toolbar is not originally visible, the presentation switches to normal viewing mode with or without a presentation outline.

Navigate between slides

You can navigate between slides during playback by using the search pane, the presentation toolbar, or the presentation Outline or Thumb pane.

Note: The Outline pane and Thumb pane are optional. Set panes for presentations using the Theme Editor in Presenter.
 Do one or more of the following:

  • Click the Previous slide button  in the presentation toolbar to move to the previous slide.

  • Click the Next slide button  in the presentation toolbar to move to the next slide.

  • Click the title of a slide in the presentation Outline or Thumb pane to move to any individual slide in the presentation.

  • Use the Search pane to find specific slides.

Navigate within the current slide

 Do one or more of the following:

  • Click the Pause button  on the presentation toolbar to pause slide playback.

  • Click the Play button  on the presentation toolbar to resume slide playback.

  • Drag the position marker arrow on the slide progress bar forward or backward to change your location within the slide’s playback.

Adjust the presentation audio

You can turn the presentation audio on and off or control the volume by using the audio button on the presentation toolbar. Examples of presentation audio that the audio button can control include audio imported into a slide and audio in an embedded SWF file (for example, a “talking head video”).

Note: Not all slides or presentations contain audio.

If a slide does not have any audio, the text No audio appears as the slide status on the slide progress bar. The slide still has an audio length and appears for that period of time before the next slide appears. This time is set by the presentation speaker.

 To change the audio level, click the Audio button  in the presentation toolbar and move the volume bar up or down. Moving the volume bar all the way to the bottom mutes the audio completely.