IndeView - The Show

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# IndeView - Show Your Presentation
ALL THE BEST!

- Start IndeView
- Keyboard / Mouse
- Navigate
- Zoom
- Move
- Terminate

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#### Start IndeView:

Windows: | Insert CD and wait till the Autostart is firing up the viewer, or (in case Autostart is disabled for the CD drive) use a right mouse button click on the CD icon to open the context menu and call "Autostart" manually: The viewer application `\BIN\WINDOWS\INDEVIEW.EXE` is started.
Linux: | After inserting and mounting the CD start the `./BIN/LINUX/indeview` program in the CD's directory.
Mac OS/X: | Insert CD and open it by double clicking, double click on directory `BIN`, double click on `MAC_OSX`, and apply a final double click on `indeview` to start the program.

IndeView loads your presentation (processing information stored in file `INDEVIEW.RUN`) and shows the first page.
access the keyboard:
There is but one known bug in IndeView: being started on Windows is does not receive the keyboard focus automatically but requires you to click the right mouse button once the first page has appeared.
(We would appreciate your help on solving this issue, please use the IndeView sources contained in the archive file downloaded)

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#### Keyboard / Mouse:

`` | mouse button | action
| Left | go to next page
| Right | go to previous page
| Middle | display the page list

IndeView may also be controlled by keyboard, press [F1] to see a graphical illustration of the different keys and their respective meanings.

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#### Navigate:

You may toggle between neighboring pages by different keys:
forth / back you go via
[Return] / [Backspace] or via
[Page Up] / [Page Down] or use the [space bar] to go to the next page.
Directly jump to the first / last page by [Home] / [End].
[L] displays the page list to select a specific page.

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#### Zoom:

Changing the zoom level may also be done by different keys:
magnify / reduce the picture by pressing
[+] / [-] or
[Z] / [Shift]+[Z].
The [0] key (which is either the digit Zero or the letter O) deactivates zoom mode. (Otherwise your zoom level will stay active when going to the next page.)
Please note: When zooming IndeView does not scale the page but it will show another version of this page: a version stored in a different resolution. So you always get a bright and pixel-exact picture. In case there is no version of higher (or lower, resp.) resolution no zooming may be applied.
The creator modules by default store pictures in these resolutions:
640x480, 704x576, 800x600, 1024x768, 1152x864, 1280x1024, 1600x1200
Thus (when not using a very high screen resolution or the old VGA mode) you should always have the option of zooming by at least one level in either direction.

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#### Move:

IndeView offers convenient ways of moving your page around on the screen:
Use the arrow keys [up] / [down] / [left] / [right] to shift by a given amount of pixels.
Hit [5] to have it centered again. (Otherwise your shift settings will stay active when going to the next page.)

These functions may be useful in different situations:

- The picture produced by your Beamer does not fill the too small screen and there is no way to move the beamer forward?
  Try [Shift]+[Z] to get the next smaller zoom level and move the page by the arrow keys until it fits to the screen.
- Are the guys in the last row telling you they can not make out a fine detail in the current page?
  Just magnify the picture using the [Z] key (if necessary hit it several times) and move it upwards until the point in question is discernible; before going to the next page use [5] to have the picture centered again and turn off Zooming by pressing either the digit Zero or the letter O.
- You are about to start your presentation but suddenly notice the bad legibility of all of your pages since the beamer does not handle your small fonts very well?
  Press [Z] to try the first zoom level and move your page a bit until the top area and the footer section of the page have been moved away from the screen: making room for the more important main part in the middle that is better readable now.

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#### Terminate:

Hit the [Esc] key or the [Q] key to quit and leave the program no matter which page is displayed.
If the last page is reached you may close the program by clicking the left mouse button or pressing one of the respective keys (Space bar, Return, Page Down).
However trying to access the previous page will not end the program if the first page is visible already, in this case we just assume that you used the Page Up key (or the right mouse button, resp.) once too often.

### All the best for your presentation!

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If you like IndeView
please consider sending a little picture postcard
of your town / your village to
Your feedback will be very much appreciated:
we will be glad about receiving a visual representation
of where on earth our IndeView users are living.