Advanced Glossy Player

Features

1. Live Preview
2. Full customization
3. 3 Screen Modes
4. Ink Annotation tools
5. Stylish Color Themes

Screen Modes

Glossy Player allows viewing your slideshow in three different modes: Advanced, Wide and Mini. They can be applied by clicking a square box in the right bottom corner of the player screen.

Ink Annotation Tool

Glossy Player offers neat marker tools like Pen, Highlighter and Eraser to your choice. These tools definitely help to be more specific, exact and expressive when presenting. They are available by clicking a pen sign.

Notes:

• The colors of the marker tools could be easily customized. Please, view the Control Panel Customization description below.
• Automatic slide transition is not performed when one of ink tools is active.

Sound volume control

You can also control the sound right within your player. Just click a horn sign and you will see a volume level control that gets regulated by dragging a cursor up and down.

Glossy Player Customization

To tune Glossy Player click Customize button in the Publish window.

A new widow will be opened and you will see the balloon which points the button you need to click next.

After clicking on this button you will get to the Player Customization window where you can choose the option you want to adjust.

Player customization window consist of several pages containing various settings. Reset defaults clears your selection and applies the default options. To reset settings in all pages click the Restore all settings button.

1. Color Settings

Glossy player is featuring seven trendy color themes: Default, Violetta, v2, Acidrome, Organica, Jazelle, Glam. Initiate Color Theme drop-down list clicking the white arrow to select the one you prefer.

Each Color Theme can be additionally tuned by changing the colors of Panel and buttons, Presentation title, Icons, Button captions, Current slide and position, Timeline, Slide count and duration, Presenter panel, Presenter title and Presenter name. To recolor one of the above positions click the color-box next to the necessary one and select the color out of the palette:

Note: the RGB field in the palette is interactive. It indicates the selected color code and shows the color when it's indicated. Dragging the arrow up and down the side color blend bar makes the color darker or lighter.

2. Title Bar customization

This tab allows you to customize appearance and playback options on the presentation header field.

Your presentation time can be shown or hidden. Tick Show presentation time if you want it to be displayed. This tab also allows to show/hide Full Screen and Close buttons on your player:

Enable Full Screen gives you an opportunity to transmit your slideshow in a full screen mode.
Enable Close button allows to stop your presentation and to close the player window. Both are brought as extra options to your Flash player and shown it in the right top corner. Check the appropriate boxes to initiate their functionality.

3. Company and Presenter customization

This page allows you to customize the way the company logo and presenter information are displayed.

To show your Company logo as well as Presenter photo right within your player window, mark the corresponding checkbox. Note: These images have to be a priori uploaded into the Presenters info accessible from the iSpring panel in your PowerPoint.

Presenter information and Presenter video can be enabled/disabled by marking/unmarking the appropriate checkboxes. Note: Presenter video has to be recorded or imported with iSpring Presenter in advance to be viewed in the top left corner of the player.

The names of More/less info buttons and Show/Hide video can be changed by typing in different names into the corresponding fields. Presenter's Home page and E-mail address can be specified in the same area as well.

4. Information Tabs customization

You can change tabs order by dragging them left and right using mouse as it is shown in the picture below.

Each of the five tabs gets enabled when the top checkbox next to its title is marked and can be set as a Default tab by clicking a necessary radio-button.

Type in the names for the tabs if you want them changed in the Title fields at each tab customization area.

1. Outline tab customization

To have your slides' titles listed in the left side menu, enable Outline tab by checking the box next to it.

Mark/unmark Multi-level navigation checkbox to view your slideshow outline as a plain or multi-level structure. Note: Multi-level navigation can only be viewed if it was initially managed with Presentation Explorer tool of your iSpring product.

2. Thumbnails tab customization

You can enable/disable the Thumbnails tab by marking/unmarking the top checkbox.

You can also select the thumbnail size between normal and large clicking a corresponding radio button.

Ticking Enable zoom effect check-box makes the thumbnails look smaller and enlarge once you put your mouse cursor over it.

Show extra large thumbnails in tooltip showcases slide snapshot when checked and it offers two sizes to your choice Large and Extra large.

3. Notes tab customization

The notes time can be specified in the Time field. Once defined, it will be displayed under your slide name in the notes tab left menu.

There are 2 special values used to represent slide duration - {MINUTES} and {SECONDS}.
For example, to represent slide duration in the following way:
Time: 00:35
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Time: {MINUTES} : {SECONDS}

4. Search tab customization

This page allows you to edit the labels in the search tab.

The names of the following search positions can be managed in this customization window: Search field hint ("Search for" by default), Search options ("Search in" by default), Slide text, Slide notes, Slide titles.

5. References tab customization.

You can change the title of references tab typing the new title in the appropriate field.

5. Control Panel customization

Control panel options allow managing navigation, timeline, marker tools and volume control.

To select if you want advance to the next Slides or Steps when clicking back/forward, mark the necessary radio-button.

You are offered to define if to display the timeline in the player or not, and if yes, what timeline you prefer: presentation or slide. Please, choose the necessary position out of the Timeline drop-down list.

Enter your version of what should there be above the player timeline instead of the word "Slide" into the Slide label space or leave it as it is if it's not important.

Enable Marker tools has to be checked if you would like to have Pen and Highlighter to support you presentation engage. Marker tools colors can be changed by clicking color boxes next each of them and selecting the right color out of the palette.

Tick Enable Volume control to be able to regulate the volume level of your slideshow.

6. Miscellaneous

This page allows you to set player width and height or make player occupy a Flash Player window.

Set the particular width and height for your player or tick Adjust player size to fit Flash player window to have it automatically fit the Flash player.