User Guide
Chapter 4: View mode
Text options
Alignment Specifies the justification of the captions.
Background Adds a background color to the text. Click Color to specify a color.
Description Displays the text you want to see on your images. Type the text you want to appear, or click inside the
field to set an insertion point for inserting metadata.
Insert Metadata Inserts file-specific information into the text for each image.
Font Sets the font, size, and color of the caption text.
To insert metadata in image text:
1. Position the cursor in the Description text box where you want to display the file information and click Insert Metadata.
2. In the Choose Properties dialog box, select the file information you want to include.
3. Click OK.
The information you added is inserted as a placeholder that will be replaced by the specific text for each image.
Hiding image text
You can hide either the header or footer, or disable both at once without changing or deleting the information in the header and
footer fields.
To hide the image text:
1. In View mode, click View | Edit Header/Footer.
2. Do one or both of the following:
Clear the Header check box to remove text from the top of the image.
Clear the Footer check box to remove text from the bottom of the image.
3. Click OK.
To show or hide both headers and footers simultaneously, click View | Show Header/Footer.
Synchronizing View mode to a folder
You can use the Sync to Folder option to change the images being displayed in View mode.
To synchronize to a folder:
1. In View mode, click File | Sync To Folder.
2. Type the path to the folder you want to synchronize, or click the Browse button to locate the folder.
3. Select or change the New Images options as described below.
4. Click OK.
New Images options
Show new images
immediately
Displays images as soon as they appear in the folder. If this option is cleared, new images are added to
the end of the slideshow.
Ignore open files Delays adding a new file to the slideshow until the transferring application has finished moving or
downloading the file.
Sort by name Sorts the images displayed in the slideshow by their file name.
To stop synchronizing to a folder:
In View mode, click Tools | Sync To Folder.
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