Gobe Productive User's Guide - Presentations Introduction

- Working in the presentation environment
- Understanding Layers
- Using the presentation palette
- Transitions
- Running a slide show

# Presentations

The presentation environment is the graphics environment with the ability to run slide shows. A presentation is composed of one or more slides. Each slide is composed of one or more layers. Layering is very important in the presentation environment.

Also, it is important to know that there are no presentation frames. Presentations are always a full-screen document. It is a good idea to use multiple sheets and frames to develop the material in a presentation document.

Example of a presentation slide.

## Presentation Terms

Before you get started with presentations, it is a good idea to familiarize yourself with some of the terms used for presentations.

> Layer: The basic unit of each slide. To display items, a slide must contain at least one layer. The true benefit of layers in presentations is the ability to have the same layer on more than one slide. This is particularly useful for creating "master layers" for backgrounds or repeated layouts.

> Presentation Palette: The floating palette displayed when working with a presentation document. The presentation palette is where you layout the slides and layers in your slide show.

> Screen Size: The size of the screen where the presentation is displayed. It is very important to set the screen size of a presentation before laying out the slides. Gobe Productive scales presentations to whatever screen size is used for the presentation. However, if the presentation was laid out in a screen size smaller or larger then the screen used to display the presentation, the slides may not appear exactly as designed. For more information about screen sizes, see the Document Size topic in the Basics section.

> Slide: A single screen of material to display. A slide can contain many layers.

> Transition: Transition refers to how each slide shows changes from one slide to the next in the presentation. You can have the slide show use transition effects such as wipes and "elevator doors" to liven up the presentation.

Before you start working with presentations, it is a good idea to read the next topic, Working in the Presentation Environment.

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