AMX IS-SPX-1000/1300 manual Creating and Editing SVG Files, Importing PowerPoint Presentations

Inspired Signage XPress Programming

Importing PowerPoint Presentations

While the IS-SPX Player doesn't support direct display of PowerPoint presentations (PPT). it does provide import functionality for a PPT, so that when a PPT is imported into an XPress project, it is immediately converted to video (without audio).

Microsoft Office 2010 is not used by the import mechanism. If you have pre-installed

Microsoft Office 2010 then you must manually install PowerPoint viewer 2007.

When a PPT file is imported to XPress, the conversion status is displayed in an new dialog. Depending on your presentation, this conversion can take up to the duration of the presentation. At the end of the conversion the resulting video will contain all PPT slides with all animations.

PPT files are converted using a ppt2svg.exe program.This conversion removes the audio.

For the conversion to work properly, the PPT file should contain automatic timings to control slide transitions.

The speed and the quality of the importing process can be modified using the Settings menu. The import quality lets you choose between the following:

720p: HD-ready quality at 15 fps. Use this settings when converting a presentation with small amount of animations.

High: SD resolution at 30 fps. This mode provides improved quality for small size text. If your presentation

includes fonts smaller than 24 pt and many animations, it is recommended to use the high quality mode. Fastest: SD resolution (480p at 30fps for either MPEG-2 or MPEG-4)

Importing Flash (SWF) Files

The IS-SPX Player doesn't support the direct display of flash files (SWF). it does provides import functionality for SWF files. When an SWF is imported into an XPress project, it is directly converted to video.

You need to have the Flash 9 or 10 ActiveX control installed on your PC for this conversion to work. If this is not the case, please install it from Adobe’s web site.

Creating and Editing SVG Files

The simplest way to create an SVG document is to right-click the browsing panel and select the action New SVG file with the desired aspect ratio. XPress creates a new SVG multilayer document new.svg in the current browsing view with the

selected aspect ratio (FIG. 10).

FIG. 10 Creating a new SVG file

Having installed XPress, you can also benefit from a set of pre-defined SVG documents called templates. You can find these templates under the collection My Templates in the default Workspace view. Provided templates include:

Multilayer templates with different aspect ratios Text templates

Playlists templates

Animated Clocks (analog and digital) templates Templates for displaying RSS data from a web site

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