User Guide

Chapter 8: Multimedia
Canvas Acrobat
CHECKERS Glitter (0 degrees)
CASCADE Glitter (270 degrees)
CROSS CUT Glitter (315 degrees)
Other effects:
Canvas Acrobat
CLOCK Dissolve
BUBBLES Dissolve
SPEED BOX Dissolve
STAR BURST Dissolve
Timing
In Canvas, the duration of an effect can be set on a scale that goes from ‘min’ to ‘max’. That settings
will be used in a PDF as a time that goes from 0.5 seconds up to 4.0 seconds.
Since there is no option for setting the length of time an individual slide will stay visible during a slide
show, a default time of 15 seconds will be used; i.e., if the user doesn’t go to the next slide, the next
slide will come up automatically after 15 seconds.
Hypertext links and URLs
The PDF Export filter supports all links that have been set through the Link Manager (see "Using the
Link Manager palette" on page 691). Links to individual pages of a multi-page document will result in
the creation of hypertext links within the PDF. Links to external HTML or PDF files are also supported.
It should be noted that PDF supports rectangular (orthogonal) hot-spots only; i.e., if a URL is
assigned to a rotated text object, the bounding box of the text will be defined as the hot-spot area.
This should not be a problem if there is just one such link on a page. However, be aware that if more
than one rotated text (or other non- rectangular objects) with a URL are used on a page, their
bounding boxes may intersect. This may cause links that are located beneath another’s bounding
area to not work as expected.
Default bookmarks of a multi-page document
When exported, a document containing more than one page will link to each individual page of the
document. Names of each page are used as titles for the bookmarks. Because they are exported as
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