Smart Technologies 11.2 Laptop User Manual


 
C H A P T E R 6
Inserting, organizing andsharingcontent
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Creating transparent areas in a picture
You can create transparent areas in a picture that you insert into a page. This is useful for removing
the picture’s background. You can make any color in the picture transparent.
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You can reduce the size of a large picture when you insert it in a file (see Setting image optimization
preferences on page145). If you later create a transparent area in the picture, the picture is no
longer optimized.
To create a transparent area in a picture
1. Select the picture.
2. Press the picture’s menu arrow, and then select Set Picture Transparency.
The Picture Transparency dialog box appears.
3. Press any areas in the picture that you want to make transparent.
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Pressing an area makes only that area transparent, even if the picture includes that same color
in other areas.
4. Press OK.
Inserting multimedia files
You can insert multimedia files, including AdobeFlash Player compatible files, video files and sound
files, into pages.
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You can also insert multimedia files from the Gallery tab. For more information, see Inserting
content from the Gallery on page70.
Inserting AdobeFlash Player compatible files
You can insert AdobeFlash Player compatible files into a page.
After you insert an AdobeFlash Player compatible file into a page, or display a page that already
contains an AdobeFlash Player compatible file, the file plays immediately. You can control the
playback of the file. If the file has buttons, you can press them on your interactive product. If the file
doesn’t have buttons, you can use the options in the file’s menu arrow.