InFocus Secure Digital (SD) & Memory Stick manual

1 Presenter-to-Go ™ Secure Digital (SD) & Memory Stick (MS) User’s Guide Includes Instructions For: • Presenter-to-Go Palm OS Presentation Application with File Creation Support on Windows 98, Millennium, 2000, XP, NT4 and Mac OS 9. • MARGI Mirror Palm OS Graphics Display Application. MARGI Systems, Inc. • Fremont, CA 94538 • www.ma[...]

2 Table of Contents 1. Introd uction ......................................................................... 4 Your Product Packag ing Contains: ......................................... 4 2. System Requirements ........................................................... 5 Handheld .................................................................[...]

3 Menu: Sh ow ..................................................................... 31 Hide All, Show All .............................................................. 31 Reset Order ..................................................................... 31 Auto Advance ................................................................... 31 Menu: Opt[...]

4 1. Introduction Thank you for purchasing Presenter-to-Go ™ by MARGI Systems ™ . Presenter-to-Go is available as a Secure Digital (SD) Card for Palm’s® line of personal assistants and a Memory Stick ™ (MS) for Sony ™ CLIE ™ handhelds. It comes with two Palm applications that allow the Palm to be used as a presentation tool in two dist[...]

5 2. System Requirements In order to completely create and display presentations using Presenter-to-Go it is necessary to have a Palm or Sony handheld, a desktop or laptop computer, and a display device. The corresponding system requirements are listed below: Handheld • A Palm handheld with Palm OS 4.0 (or higher) and SD support or a Sony CLIE ha[...]

6 Fig. 3.1: Selection of Softwa re Installation Destination You will then get the following message at the end of the installation. If you wish to register the product at this time, click “Next”. If you do not wish to register the product at this time, simply uncheck the box below and then click “Next”. Fig. 3.2: Setup Product Registration[...]

7 Fig. 3.3: Setup Complete Click “Finish” and, if registration was sele cted, you will be brought to the Presenter-to-Go registration page through your internet browser. Un-Installing the PC Creation Software. When updating PC software versions, it is recommended that you remove the old PC creation application software prior to installing the n[...]

8 Fig. 3.4: Installing the Handheld Application After you click on the “Finish” button during th e PC software install, the screen in Fig. 3.4 will appear. If you would like to install the Presenter-to-Go software on your handheld during your next HotSync, click “Yes”. Fig. 3.5: User List The screen in Fig 3.5 will appear and provide you wi[...]

9 Fig. 3.7: Presenter-to-Go Desktop Transfer Tutorial Presentation to Handheld Select the presentation “Palm_Tutorial.pdb” from the “Presentation List” and click “Transfer”. Next time you HotSync “Palm_Tutorial” will be transferred to the handheld. Installing the Presenter-to-Go & MARGI Mirror Palm software on your handheld from[...]

10 Fig. 3.8: Add/Remove Programs Now, you’re ready to start making your mobile presentations 4. Creating Your Presentation Presenter-to-Go presentations can be created directly from within Microsoft PowerPoint ® or from any Windows ® application that has print driver support. The processes are slightly different. Creating Presentations from wit[...]

11 Fig. 4.1 Typical PowerPoint Screen with Presenter-to-Go Icon Complete your PowerPoint presentation as you normally would, taking notice of the note below. Note : Presenter-to-Go does not support any slide-transitions, animation, or audio/video features available in Microsoft PowerPoint ® . Only static slides are supported. Click on the Presente[...]

12 Fig. 4.2 Presenter-to-Go Creator dialog box The Presenter-to-Go Creator dialog box allows you to Change the name of the presentation. To change the name, simp ly change the name in the “Presentation Name” box. Press the “Create” button, to create a mobile presentation. In order to append the presen tation to a presen tation in the “Pre[...]

13 Fig. 5.3 The Presenter-to Go Desktop dialog box Your presentation will appear in the “Prese ntations List”. This list shows all the presentations that are ready to be transferred into the HotSync bin for the next HotSync operation into your handheld. The button functions are described below: Note : The buttons offer context- sensitive tool-t[...]

14 Note : If you have Queued a presentation but prior to HotSync decide that you don’t want that presentation, it can be removed in the Palm Desktop Application by clicking on the “Install Tool” icon, and then highlighting the file you don’t want to transfer and selecting REMOVE. Note: If you created a presentation but d id not Queue it bef[...]

15 save the balance of the document as additional slides until all the material is presented. 2. The Presenter-to-Go Creator dialog window will appear with the name taken from the printing application in the document name box. You can rename the mobile presentation document. If you try to create another presentation with the same name that already [...]

16 After the presentation is Queued then, you can perform a HotSync to get the presentation into the Palm handheld. 5. Mac Software Installation/Setup This is only available to Palm-brand handheld users. Installing the Presenter-to-Go Creation Software. Important Notice : Close all applications prior to beginning the installation process. Check tha[...]

17 Creating Presentations from within Microsoft PowerPoint on your desktop (or laptop): The Presenter-to-Go driver provides a button icon on the PowerPoint toolbar like the icon above. It is shown in the Fig. 6.1, and can be found at the far right of the toolbar. Note : You must select Presenter-to-Go as your printer in the Chooser to use this func[...]

18 1. Conversion of PowerPoint file into the compressed mobile presentation format. The Presenter-to-Go “Presentation Name” will be pre-filled with the same name as the PowerPoint file. 2. The “Presenter-to-Go Creator” dialog box will appear, as shown in Fig. 6.2. Fig. 6.2 Presenter-to-Go Creator dialog box The Presenter-to-Go Creator dialo[...]

19 Fig. 6.3 Presenter-to-Go Archive List Clicking on the “Create” bu tton will now append the current mobile presenta tion to the existing presentation listed on the “Append pages to existing presentation” line. Documents previou sly transferred to the Palm are saved in the Pre senter-to-Go Archive List. To a ppend a new document to an a rc[...]

20 Fig. 6.4 The Presenter-to Go Desktop dialog box Your presentation will appear in the” Presentations” list. This list shows a ll the presentations that ar e ready to be transferred into the HotSync bin for the next HotSync operation into your Palm. The button functions are described below: Install : Transfers the selected presentation into th[...]

21 Note : If you have Queued a presentation but prior to HotSync decide that you don’t want that presentation, it can be removed in the Palm Desktop Application by clicking on the Install icon, and then highlighting the file you don’t want to transfer and selecting REMOVE. Note : If you created a presentation but did not Queue it before quittin[...]

22 Fig. 6.6 ”Presenter-to-Go” Cr eator with new document Name After the name is entered, and the Create button is selected OR the new pages are Appended to another presentation, the familiar “Presenter-to-Go Desktop” dialog box will appear. The commands and features of this window are discussed in detail above. After the presentation is Que[...]

23 8. Using Presenter-to-Go Follow the procedure below to use the Presenter-to-Go Application on your handheld. Step 1 Plug the A/C adapter into the wall socket and push its jack into the power connector located on the back end of the VGA connector. (Optional for short presentations) Step 2 Connect the VGA connector to a VGA projector, monitor, or [...]

24 Module Status If you have opened the Presenter-to-Go Application without the module installed and powered you will get the “Presenter module not detected” Screen. Fig. 8.3: “Presenter module installed” Fig. 8.4: “Presenter module not detected ” Resolution and Refresh Rate Selection Tapping on the card icon will give you the Presenter[...]

25 Fig. 8.7 Show/Hide Slide Box The show-slide box, when checked means that the slide is visible during the presentation. The show-slide box, when unchecked means that the slide is hidden and will be skipped during the presentation. Viewing Notes and Slide Text Content You can view the presenter notes and slide text content associated with any slid[...]

26 Note : Slide notes and text content of slides created in PowerPoint will automatically be copied and placed in the Slide Note field. Viewing Slide Thumbnails You can preview your slides on your handheld device using the “Preview” button. Using this feature allows you to see a thumbnail of the slide itself. Fig. 8.10 Slide Thumbnail To use th[...]

27 Drag & Drop Reorganization You can reorganize the order of slides by simply selecting a slide, and dragging & dropping it at an appropriate place. Following is an example; wherein the “Before you begin…” slide has been moved down from second to seventh position. If you re-arrange the slides in a presentation, those changes will be [...]

28 handheld. When you look at the Presentation List again, this presentation will now have a dash next to it. If you remove the memory card and plug in the Presenter-to-Go Card you will still be able to use this presentation from the memory card. Fig. 8.15 Presentation lis tings from different sources Note : After the memory card has been removed, [...]

29 MOVE function Moves the active presentation between the handheld’s memory and a memory card. The destination for MOVE is the handheld memory if the source is a memory card, and vice- versa. Fig. 8.17 Move Presentation COPY function Copies active presentation between the handheld’s memory and a memory card. The destination for COPY is the han[...]

30 DELETE function Deletes the active presentation. Fig. 8.19 Delete Presentation Warning : Do not use the delete function of the Palm Operating System to delete presentations. Although you may highlight on e presentation, it will erase all presentations stored in the handheld. Beaming Files to other Palm OS Handhelds You can beam the active presen[...]

31 Note : Beam preference must be switched ON for the receiving handheld to start accepting the document. Menu: Show The Show Menu has the choices as shown below: Fig. 8.21 Show Menu Hide All, Show All Hide All (Command-H), will uncheck the show -box on all slides. This option is useful if you want to show a limited number of slides, and want to di[...]

32 Menu: Options The Options Menu has the choices as shown below: Fig. 8.22 Options Menu Preferences Fig. 8.23 Preferences • “Auto Slide Show” needs settings for automatic transitions between slides. The timing can be set from 1 to 999 seconds. If the time is set to 000, then the next slide is shown as soon as it is ready. • “LOOP Continu[...]

33 About This is the best way to see the version number of your Presenter-to-Go software. Making a Presentation Manual slide show presentation mode is the default. The physical Up and Down keys on the Handheld are tied to the keys in this mode. Pushing this button displays the previous slide. Pushing this button displays the next slide. Showing a s[...]

34 The following control choices are available: REV Reverse or back one slide. FWD Forward or advance one slide. AUTO Set the presentation in AUTO slide- show mode. If in Preferences the presentation is set to enable LOOP, then the presentation will run continuously. Press AUTO again to switch off auto advance. RETURN Return to last slide. The slid[...]

35 • Go to the Pricing sheet of the Product (e.g. Microsoft Excel®), and “print” to the Presenter-to-Go printer. On your Windows-Compatible computer, click on the “Sales_Prezo” in the Presentations-List, and press the APPEND button and the Pricing Sheet is now appended to the “Sales_Prezo”. On your Mac, select “Append pages to exis[...]

36 10. MARGI Mirror Introduction This part of the guide contains information on how to use the MARGI Mirror™ application with the MARGI Presenter-to-Go™ SD and MS Modules. The MARGI Mirror application allows the Presenter-to-Go card to display the contents of the handhelds LCD on a VGA projector or monitor. It allows the user to display the tho[...]

37 Fig. 11.2: Module Missing Screen Fig. 11.3: MARGI Mirror Main Menu Video Select “Enable” to turn on the output VGA si gnals. When you are done using this feature, select “Disable”. Zoom Which zoom you choose depends on the projector, LCD or CRT you are using, the size of the room and the distance of the projector from the screen or the m[...]

38 Update Refers to the rate of update of the video display. A faster display update is at the cost of increased CPU overhead. Update Speed Percentage of CPU Used Slow 5-10% Medium 10-20% Fast 20-30% Typing and game play can be comfortably done at “Medium”. Color Scheme This is only available on monochrome handhelds. Allows you to choose the co[...]

39 Information Screen Tapping on the “Module Info” button will give you the MARGI Mirror information screen. This screen will tell you version of MARGI Mirror you are using and tell you whether a display is detected using EDID or not. Tapping the information indicator will give you a Tip Screen that explains the plug and play function. Fig. 11.[...]

40 Using MARGI Mirror with an External Keyboard Since MARGI Mirror essentially provides a display function, a natural evolution is to attach an external keyboard and create a “PC-Like” environment. The likely first application is word processing. To use your handheld, Presenter-to-Go card with MARGI Mirror applet and display, an external keyboa[...]

41 Q Will I get color slides, even if my ha ndheld is a Black and White display model? A Yes, you will get 256 colors. Some pictures with thousands of shades of colors will not be as detailed, but standard graphics will look fine. Q What features in PowerPoint are not supported by Presenter-to-Go? A Presenter-to-Go does not support any sli de-ins, [...]

42 Q How do I remove a file from the hotsync bin? A To remove file from hotsync bin: run the Palm Desktop Install Tool (StartProgramsPalm DesktopInstall Tool) then select user then select offending file and click Remove... Q When I press the Presenter-to-Go icon in PowerPoint, will it automatically pick up the names of each slide, the presenter [...]

43 Technical Support There are three ways to contact the MARGI Customer Service and Support: 1 Fill out the MARGI's Online Support Form by logging into http://www.margi.com/support/request_support.htm . MARGI support staff will answer these contacts with one business day, usually only a few business hours. 2 You may FAX your questions to (510)[...]

44 13. Specifications Presenter-to-Go Card Specifications • Dimensions (in inches) are as follows; remote is 3.5” x 1.75” x .25”, electronic component housing is 2.25” x 1.5” x .75” (SD) and 3.0” x 1.5” x .75” (MS), and cable length is 17” • Operating Voltage: 5V DC (See power options below) • Power Consumption: under 0.5 [...]

45 Appendix One: Product Warranty MARGI Systems, Inc. (“MARGI”) warrants that this product will be free from defects in materials and workmanship during the warranty period, and will perform according to product documentation. If your product is found to be defective in materials or workmanship within the warranty period, MARGI will at its sole[...]

46 Appendix Two: Federal Communications Commission Information This device complies with Part 15 of the FCC Rules. Operation is subject to the following two conditions: (1) This device may not cause harmful interference, and (2) this device must accept any interference received, incl uding interference that may cause undesired operation. Any change[...]