Running a Presentation

Author-it Presentations have been designed to display at a resolution of 1024 x 768, which is the resolution used by 99 per cent of projectors. For best results we recommend you view presentations using this resolution (most projectors will not display the slides correctly at resolutions higher than 1024 x 768).

However, if your monitor is set at a resolution higher than 1024 x 768 the frameset resizes to fill the screen and can appear to be broken into separate frames. When a higher resolution is used the slide is anchored to the top left corner of the main frame and displays a black background around the right and lower sides, similar to the image below. (The TOC frame will still display at the right of the screen, and the Control frame at the bottom of the screen.)

While a higher resolution can be used while you are working with the presentation, we recommend using a projector with a resolution of 1024 x 768 to ensure the slide show displays correctly.

To View a Presentation

1. From the Publishing window choose View Output. The presentation is opened in your default browser.

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1. Locate the publishing folder containing the presentation. This will be something like Author-it/Data/Publishing/HTML/Bookname.
2. Open the folder and double click on index.htm. The presentation is opened in your default browser.
3. Put the browser in full screen mode (F11) and click the Play button to start the slide show.