Publish to Flash Window - Advanced Tab
Use the Advanced tab to configure the options for PowerPoint to Flash conversion, specify size of presentation and settings to control Flash movie playback.
| Advanced | Flash movie | |
| Size | Width and height of output Flash presentation. |
| Scale | Percentage of the movie's size relatively to the original presentation's size. |
Note: width, height and scale are related parameters and iSpring maintains the aspect ratio as you change one of these parameters. iSpring technology allows to reduce the height and the width of the presentation without loss of clarity.
| Advanced | Flash movie | |
| Flash Movie Frame rate | The number of Flash frames per second. Small values are not recommended because this can cause flickering when playing animations. |
| Background color | You can set a background color for the entire presentation. Double clicking the current color next to this option will open a standard window where you can select an appropriate color. |
| Flash version | Select the version of Flash Player. Flash players of 7, 8, 9 versions are available. |
| Disable Flash printing | Check the box if you don′t want to allow printing your output Flash presentation. ′Print′ option in the right-click menu will be disabled in the generated Flash file. |
| Disable Flash menu | Disables right click menu and top menu of generated Flash movie playback window. |
| Optimize images for resolution | Check the box to optimize images for given screen resolution which you can select from the dropdown menu. If set value is smaller than presentation size, images will be optimized for the presentation dimensions. |
| Enable interaction with JavaScript | If this option is checked out Flash presentations will include the JavaScript Connector that allows Flash movie playback control via HTML code. |
| Integrate ActionScript 3 connector | Tick this option in case you use Flash files written in ActionScript 3 to control presentation playback. ActionScript 3 Connector module will be integrated into output Flash presentation. |
| Provide complete presentation info ActionScript API | Tick this option if you need to perform programmatic control over Flash presentation. If checked all information about presentation will be available via ActionScript API regardless of the player template used. |
| Advanced | Playback and Navigation | |
| Add Preloader | This option adds a preloader to Flash presentation which shows a progress of the Flash presentation loading. |
| Start presentation automatically | Tick this option if you would like your Flash presentation to start playing automatically as soon as the first slide is loaded. |
| Change all slides automatically | If this option is checked slides in your Flash presentation will advance automatically. |
| Minimal slide duration | This value indicates minimal playback time in seconds for non-animated slides. Slide duration for particular slides can be specified in Presentation Explorer. |
| Auto-play on-click animations each |
Select it to automatically advance to the next step for on-click animations after
the number of seconds you enter.
"Automatic animations" option will also respect timing set from within PowerPoint. |
| Advance animations on mouse click |
Select it to advance to the next animation step when you click the mouse. This option applies only for slides that contain mouse driven animations, 'Automatic animations' will always start according to the timings set from within the Custom Animation dialog of PowerPoint. |
| Keyboard playback control |
This option allows you to control presentation playback by keyboard keys. Mark this option, if you want to control your output presentation playback with keyboard. The following set of keys will be applied by default:
Click Customize if you want to change the keys for certain actions. You can set up to 3 keys per each action and import/export a set of shortcut keys from/into a file. |
| Looped playback | If selected, your presentation will automatically start from the beginning after the last slide is finished. This feature is essential for creation of Flash banners and trade shows. |
| Preserve shape animations effects + Preserve slide transitions | Unmark these options to reduce the output file size, disregarding animation effects and slide transitions |
Keyboard Customization
You can control your output Flash presentation playback with your keyboard keys, customize them the way you want, import/export shortcut combination from/into a file.
To make Keyboard Playback control available for your output Flash file, please tick Keyboard playback control and click Customize.
To reassign the shortcut keys, click Customize.
Each action can be set to be controlled by up to 3 different keyboard keys.
To add a new key for an action, click a blue pen icon in one of the three columns in a corresponding line and press a required key or key combination with Ctrl or Shift.
Note: You cannot assign one key for two or more actions. If you enter an already assigned key or key combination, you will be additionally asked if you really want to replace it.
Click red cross icon to remove a shortcut key.
You can export a set of shortcuts into a file to further apply it to other projects. Once you are done assigning all the shortcuts, click Export. Name the file and select the directory to save it to in the Save As dialog window.
To apply an already saved shortcut set, click Import and select a necessary file with an .isk extension.
Click Reset defaults to cancel all the implied changes and get back to the default set of shortcuts.