Presenter-to-Go™ Secure Digital (SD) & Memory Stick (MS) User’s Guide Presenter-to-Go MS is compatible with all MS-enabled Sony CLIE handhelds Presenter-to-Go SD is compatible with all SD-enabled Palm handhelds 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.margi.
Table of Contents 1. Introduction .........................................................................4 Your Product Packaging Contains: .........................................4 2. System Requirements ...........................................................5 Handheld ...........................................................................5 Desktop or Laptop...............................................................5 Display Device ............................................................
Menu: Show ..................................................................... 31 Hide All, Show All.............................................................. 31 Reset Order ..................................................................... 31 Auto Advance ................................................................... 31 Menu: Options .................................................................. 32 Preferences ......................................................................
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 distinctly different ways: 1.
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 • Desktop or • • • • • A Palm handheld with Palm OS 4.0 (or higher) and SD support or a Sony CLIE handheld with Palm OS 4.0 (or higher) and MS support. Laptop 32 MB RAM 50 MB Hard Drive Windows® 98, 98SE, Millennium, 2000, XP, NT4 or Mac OS 8.
Fig. 3.1: Selection of Software 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.
Fig. 3.3: Setup Complete Click “Finish” and, if registration was selected, 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 new version. This can be done by following the procedure below: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
Fig. 3.4: Installing the Handheld Application After you click on the “Finish” button during the 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 with a list of users whose devices you may install the Presenter-to-Go Palm software on.
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 the Presenter-to-Go desktop. Click on the “Install App” button. You will then get the message in Fig. 3.6. Click on “OK”.
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 within Microsoft PowerPoint on your desktop PC (or laptop): The Presenter-to-Go driver provides a button icon on the PowerPoint toolbar that looks like: It is shown in Fig.
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 Presenter-to-Go icon and the following occur automatically: 1. Conversion of PowerPoint file into the compressed mobile presentation format.
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, simply change the name in the “Presentation Name” box. Press the “Create” button, to create a mobile presentation. In order to append the presentation to a presentation in the “Presentations List”, select a presentation from the “Presentations List”. That name will automatically appear in the “Append To” line.
Fig. 5.3 The Presenter-to Go Desktop dialog box Your presentation will appear in the “Presentations 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-tips, meaning that if you slide the cursor over the button, an explanation of the button – function will appear.
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 did not Queue it before quitting, you can get that presentation by selecting START then Program Files then MARGI then Presenter-to-Go.
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 exists in the queue, you will have an option to overwrite or rename it something different.
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 that your computer meets the System Requirements for operating system and hardware requirements described in Section 2.
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 function. Fig. 6.1 Typical PowerPoint Screen with Presenter-to-Go Icon Complete your PowerPoint presentation as you normally would, taking notice of the note below.
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 dialog box allows you to change the name of the presentation. To change the name, simply change the name in the “Name” box.
Fig. 6.3 Presenter-to-Go Archive List Clicking on the “Create” button will now append the current mobile presentation to the existing presentation listed on the “Append pages to existing presentation” line. Documents previously transferred to the Palm are saved in the Presenter-to-Go Archive List. To append a new document to an archived document, click the “Archive List” button. A list of previous presentations will show in the “Archived Presentations” area of a new window.
Fig. 6.4 The Presenter-to Go Desktop dialog box Your presentation will appear in the” Presentations” list. This list shows all the presentations that are ready to be transferred into the HotSync bin for the next HotSync operation into your Palm. The button functions are described below: Note: The buttons offer context- sensitive tool-tips, meaning that if you slide the cursor over the button, an explanation of the button –function will appear, if you have “Show Balloons” activated.
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 quitting, you can get that presentation by selecting “Presenter-to-Go Desktop” under the apple icon.
Fig. 6.6 ”Presenter-to-Go” Creator 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 Queued then, you can perform a Hotsync to get the presentation into the Palm handheld. 7.
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 other display capable of 1024 x 768 resolution. Step 3 Insert the Presenter-to-Go card connector into your handheld’s expansion slot.
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-to-Go card screen. The Presenter-toGo card should be able to detect the proper default resolution and refresh rate for the display it is being used with.
Show Slide Box 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 slide created from PowerPoint by pressing the Notes icon next to that slide. You cannot change the notes or text from within the Palm Application.
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 the annotation feature discussed under “Show Preferences”, you must have the presentation in the preview mode on your handheld.
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 saved. Fig. 8.13 Drag and Drop Switching between Presentations The top-right corner of the display gives the name of the current presentation.
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 listings from different sources Note: After the memory card has been removed, you will still see the presentations from the card in the Presentation List.
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 viceversa. 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 handheld memory if the source is a memory card, and viceversa. Fig. 8.
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 one presentation, it will erase all presentations stored in the handheld. Beaming Files to other Palm OS Handhelds You can beam the active presentation to any Palm OS handheld in range by selecting the “Beam” function. The beaming process follows the normal Palm beaming protocols.
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 disable-show for all and then selectively choose what to show. Show All (Command-S), will check the show-box on all slides.
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 Continuously” set to loop the presentation continuously, if “Auto Advance” is selected.
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 slide Tap on any slide title to show it. First Show Page First Show Page is the page that is displayed initially when the Presenter-to-Go Application is launched.
The following control choices are available: REV FWD AUTO RETURN Reverse or back one slide. Forward or advance one slide. 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 to last slide. The slide number can be entered into the keypad directly.
• • • • 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 existing presentation”, opening the “Presenter-to-Go Archive List”. Select “Sales_Prezo” to append the new document to your existing file and select “OK”.
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 thousands of Palm applications and any data stored on their handheld.
You need to have the Presenterto-Go card plugged-in to use the MARGI Mirror feature. Otherwise you will get the screen shown in Figure 11.2. Fig. 11.2: Module Missing Screen Fig. 11.3: MARGI Mirror Main Menu Video Select “Enable” to turn on the output VGA signals. 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 monitor from the audience.
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 color of the background. MARGI Mirror supports 1,2 and 4 bit monochrome output and 4, 8 and 16 bit color output from handhelds with color displays. Fig. 11.
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. 11.5: MARGI Mirror Information Screen Fig. 11.
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 keyboard and a word processing application (such as Dataviz Word-to-GoTM) in a PC configuration, follow the steps below: 1. Turn on your handheld 2.
Q A Will I get color slides, even if my handheld is a Black and White display model? 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 A What features in PowerPoint are not supported by Presenter-to-Go? Presenter-to-Go does not support any slide-ins, builds, transitions, animation, motion, audio, or video features found in PowerPoint. Your slides need to be static.
Q A How do I remove a file from the hotsync bin? To remove file from hotsync bin: run the Palm Desktop Install Tool (Start\Programs\Palm Desktop\Install Tool) then select user then select offending file and click Remove...
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) 657-4430. FAXes will be answered within one business day. 3 Telephone Support is available M-F 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. PST at (510) 657-4435.
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.
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 discretion, repair or replace the product at no charge. This warranty does not cover damage from everyday wear and tear or from transportation by a common carrier.
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, including interference that may cause undesired operation. Any changes or modifications to this product not expressly authorized by MARGI Systems may void your authority to operate this product.
