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The most important piece in the PDFPoint puzzle is the use of master pages. These are pages from which objects are painted onto other pages, like a watermark or preprinted paper. For example, items such as a copyright notice, a company logo or rules denoting the edges of the main part of a slide could all appear on a master page. Normal pages usually inherit the objects from the latest master page through the document (e.g. if slides 1, 7 and 12 are defined as masters, slide 8 would use slide 7 as its master), although particular sldies can be set to ignore the master page completely.
The ability to include multiple master pages in the document makes it easy to separate it into sections, each of which can have a slightly (or completely!) different format. Objects inherited from a master page are displayed on the preview (so as to show exactly what the final output will look like) but cannot be edited except on the page they are actually on.
A slide is defined as a master page simply by checking the “Is Master“ box on this toolbar, and whether to use the last defined master page is set by the “Use Master” checkbox.
PDF documents give you the ability to include a navigation tree (known as Bookmarks or Outlines). The other options on this toolbar give you the chance to bookmark the presentation. Check “Include in Outline” to include a slide in the navigation tree, or click More to choose where to split the tree into sections.
PDFPoint’s SVG output also lets you include outlines, which are shown to the left hand side of the page display area.
The Outlines are also controlled from Document Properties (File menu); you can turn off the production of outlines completely from this dialogue.
These four tools control how slides are handled in the presentation. The first three, Insert Slide, Add Slide and Delete Slide are obvious and simple. The fourth, which starts the Slide Organiser (also on the Slide menu, shortcut key F12), is more complex but equally useful. This tool lets you rearrange the slides within the document, allowing a complete or partial restructuring of the presentation.
Also extremely useful is Duplicate Slide (Slide menu, shortcut key Shift+Grey +) which copies the current slide and all its objects. This is an alternative to the stencil for working on just one document, in that you can set up a page how you like it, duplicate it and then edit any objects that have changed, such as text.
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