Jump To and Hotspot for Business Applications

[Lin Evans]

Often, in both business applications and in personal applications, your viewers might like to see specific areas of your slide up close. Of course we can always set up zooms where we "think" it might be nice, but we can't always be certain where viewers might like to see more details.

An example for private use could be a large panorama which would appear wide and rather small vertically to fit the horizontal aspect of a wide screen. We really never know what our viewers might like to see, so how can we deal with this?

Let's say you are putting on a slideshow in the conference room for business partners, etc., and you have a high resolution flow-chart or organizational chart. You can have dozens of slides each with a "crop" of this high resolution original and show them sequentially, or you might find it more expedient to do it this way.

What I have done for an example is take a reasonably high resolution original and zoom in to areas of interest - take screen resolution snaps of the zooms and make them into individual slide. Then I setup hot spots using invisible "rectangles" (you could use buttons, frames or any object for this) for each area of interest. So now the person running the slideshow simply moves the mouse cursor to the invisible "hot spot" and the cursor changes. Left click the mouse and that area is immediately enlarged to reveal the slide which was cropped from the original high resolution slide. When done with this slide, just left click the mouse in the upper right hand corner of the slide and the show will return to the original slide. When you are finished, right click the mouse to exit the show.

This entire method takes very little resources and rather than zooming in on a high resolution slide multiple times, the "collection" of small individual crops serves the identical purpose, works much quicker, uses very little resources, etc. Just another neat feature of PTE:

Try clicking on the horses heads, the driver of the fire wagon, the front and back wheels of the wagon, the driver's head getting into the car, the license plate on the old car, the sign with writing above on the building - etc. You will find the "hot spots" when the cursor changes....

http://www.lin-evans...jump/jumpto.zip (a couple meg download)

Best regards,

Lin