Create a Web presentation from slides

Open the Publish Web Presentation Window

With Presentation mode off, select File > Publish Web Presentation.

Change the layout of the presentation

By default, a Web presentation looks similar to the following, with slide thumbnails placed horizontally in one line across the top of the screen.

The following procedures describe how to change this.

To change the orientation:

• In the Template/Content Look panel, select Portrait or Landscape underneath the preview image. The preview image changes to reflect the choice you make.
  

  You may want to select Portrait if you intend for the presentation to be viewed on a mobile device.

To display thumbnails horizontally or vertically across the movie:

• Select Top & Bottom or Left & Right. The preview image changes to reflect the choice you make.
  

To separate slides into groups:

• In the What to Publish panel, select which slides go into which group by clicking the radio buttons in the Template Group columns.
  

  For example, in a Top & Bottom layout, select the radio buttons in the T (Top) and B (Bottom) columns. In a Left & Right layout, select the radio buttons in the L (Left) and R (Right) columns.

To place all slides into one group:

• Under What to Publish, click the appropriate Template Group column header. All the radio buttons in that column are selected.
  

  For example, in a Top & Bottom layout, click the B column header to assign all slides to the bottom group.

To assign names to the groups:

1. In the Template/Content Look panel, enter names in the label boxes.
   

   The names can describe the organization of your slides. For example if you have three slides that show material alternatives, and three that show different environments, you could name the top group “Materials” and the bottom group “Environments.”

2. To change the font in which the names will be displayed, click the font button. (By default this button displays the current font; for example “Tacoma 9.”) Browse to the font you want and click OK.

To exclude slides from the movie:

• Deselect them in the What to Publish panel. To select or deselect all slides, click the top check box.
  

To change the order of slides in the movie:

• Drag and drop slides in the list.

Customize navigation controls in a presentation

You can specify whether or not you want to be able to hide navigation controls in the Flash movie. Do this in the Template/Content Look panel as described in the following procedures.

To assign a hotkey that shows or hides a slide group in a movie:

1. Under the appropriate group label box, select Hide/show group on hotkey.
   
2. Select a hotkey from the drop-down box below the label box.

When you watch the movie, you will be able to toggle visibility of the slide group using the hotkey you selected.

You can set the playback controls to hide or show based on the proximity of the mouse to the lower part of the playback window. Do this as follows:

• Select Auto-hide playback controls.
  

Adjust quality, format, size, and ray tracing settings

Adjust quality, format, size, and ray tracing settings the same way you would when creating a movie. See Create a movie from shots or slides. The only differences are:

• You can only save to Flash or HTML5 formats.
• You cannot add compression.

Save the presentation

1. Enter a publish name in the box at the top of the Window; this will be used as the file name for output.
2. To increase edge smoothness, select Anti-aliasing under Quality & Format and drag the slider to adjust. This does not dynamically affect the viewport display. It affects the final output.
3. At the bottom of the window, specify whether to publish the output locally, to the cloud, or both. See Publish to the cloud.
4. If you want your output to open when publishing is finished, select Open result when finished, at the top of the window.
5. Click Publish Presentation.

An HTML file is created in the location you specified. In the case of Flash presentations, a SWF file is also created. A sub-folder is created with the name MyOutputName-presentation. This folder contains the accompanying files necessary to view the movie. The sub-folder, the HTML file, and the SWF file (if applicable) must all be in the same folder for the presentation to work.

Open the presentation

To open the presentation, double-click the HTML file.

To play a slide, click its thumbnail or click the Play button on the bottom left of the screen.

Click the loop icon in the bottom right corner of the page to switch between the following settings:

• Play the current slide once.
• Play the current slide repeatedly.
• Play all slides in sequence repeatedly.

To ‘scrub’ through the presentation, drag the slider at the bottom of the screen to the left or right.