ARTstor: Offline Image Presentation Tool (OIV)

Choose Add a slide from the Edit or Insert menu bar items, by clicking on the icon (shaded box with a + sign at the upper right corner) from either the Slide Sorter or Slide Editor workspace toolbars, or by right clicking within the Slide Sorter workspace.

Choose a template

Select a template (the frame represents an image; the line grouping represents a text box; the magnifying glass represents a zoomable image). Then insert the image and/or text. Opt to add or remove text boxes, images, and/or shapes at any time. Read more... 

For slides with text boxes, opt to automatically add image data by checking the Populate metadata box, choose the data fields you want to display, and opt to add their labels.

• Tips: Right-click over a thumbnail from the Image Palette workspace to Edit Image Data or Show Image Data. From the Slide Editor workspace, click on the text box to edit and format as needed (a small green arrow appearing at the bottom right side corner of this box indicates that there is hidden text; to view, edit the visible text by deleting lines or by changing the font size, or simply enlarge the text box until the small green arrow disappears).

Copy and paste slides from one OIV presentation to another (using OIV version 3.0 and updates)

1. Open an OIV presentation (start a new one or open an existing one).
2. Open the second presentation by going to the File menu bar item and choosing either Open (an existing presentation) or New.
3. From the Slide Sorter workspace, select by clicking on the slide to be copied. To select more than one at a time, click on the first and the last while holding the Shift key to choose all slides in between the two, or hold the Ctrl key to randomly select or deselect.
4. From the Edit menu bar item, or by right clicking in the Slide Sorter workspace, choose Copy.
5. Return to the other presentation, go to the Edit menu bar item, or right click in the Slide Sorter workspace, and choose Paste. Note: The images will automatically be added to the Image Palette workspace.

Click on an image thumbnail or to select more than one, click on the first and the last while holding the Shift key to choose all thumbnails between the two, or hold the Ctrl key to randomly select or deselect. Click on the Create slides from the selected images icon (cascading shaded squares) from the Image Palette toolbar, or right click and choose Slide Creation Wizard. Select the desired slide template.

For slides with text boxes, opt to automatically add image data by checking the Populate metadata box, choose the data fields you want to display, and opt to add their labels.

Tips: Right-click over a thumbnail from the Image Palette workspace to Edit Image Data or Show Image Data. From the Slide Editor workspace, click on the text box to edit and format as needed (a small green arrow appearing at the bottom right side corner of this box indicates that there is hidden text; to view, edit the visible text by deleting lines or by changing the font size, or simply enlarge the text box until the small green arrow disappears).