Chapter 6

Chapter 6

Presenting Information
1. Presentation Structures
  1. Linear
    1. Consecutive, cannot get to other slides
  2. Non-Linear
    1. Accessed in any order, jump over slides
    2. Order adapted depending on needs of audience, same presentation to different audiences
    3. Difficult to create, over complicated layout
  3. Hierarchical
    1. Different options selected from each slide
    2. Options set up when presentation created, meet the needs of the audience
    3. Cannot jump to an out of sequence slide, may not find slide required
2. Navigation Methods
  1. Manual
    1. Needs a presenter, tailored pace
  2. Automatic
    1. No intervention, can loop, not for verbal presentations, appropriate timings
3. Delivering
  1. OHP
    1. Slides can be annotated, can be read if a power cut, relatively cheap
    2. No special features, quality can deteriorate, cannot be edited easily
  2. Computer
    1. Wide range of features, saved and edited, quality not lost
    2. Overused features, large initial cost, software required, electricity
4. Features of software
  1. Text
  2. Images
  3. Sound
  4. Video
  5. Animation
  6. Transitions
  7. Hyperlinks
  8. Hotspots
  9. Buttons
Vector and Bitmap Graphics
1. Vector
  1. Can be resized with no loss of definition, small file size, grouped, cannot be compressed, high processing power
2. Bitmap
  1. Pixellation when resized, large file size, cannot be grouped, compressed
3. Uses
  1. Vector
    1. Design and CAD packages; change size perspectives, size and proportions
  2. Bitmap
    1. Scanner/camera is used, clipart, sometimes be changed and edited, saved as BMP, GIF and JPEG
Graphics Libraries
1. Applications
  1. Kitchen Design
    1. Standard symbols, planning and designing kitchen layout
  2. Cartography
    1. Symbols used in the ordanance survey so maps created will use standard symbols
  3. Network Design
    1. Industry-standard symbols for main components needed in a network
2. Advantages/Disadvantages
  1. Industry standard images available, symbols recognized throughout the world
  2. Difficult to keep up-to-date, unavailable components used, new components not available immediately
Clip Art and Thumbnail Images
1. Clip Art
  1. Limited choice, variable quality, copyright issues
  2. Immediately available, no extra hardware, reduce cost
2. Thumbnail
  1. Multiple images viewed at the same time, descriptions, grouped
  2. Poor quality, long loading time
Document Formatting
1. Page Size
2. Page Settings
3. Page Orientation
4. Text Settings
Mail Merge
1. Documents produced quickly, only one document needs to be proofread, data source used more than once, standard template used
2. Data source created > standard document created > data source and document linked > docs printed
Common Characteristics
1. Characters
2. Paragraph
3. Sections
4. Frames
5. Headers/Footer
6. Footnotes
7. Pages

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