Tim Wang's eLearning Blog

03/03/06

Pachyderm Frame Editor Beta Launched!

Filed under: Project Development, Pachyderm — timwang @ 11:54:13 pm

Now you can create your own frame for your Pachyderm presentations! Here is how:
1. Goto http://ccw.arts.ubc.ca/pfe/
2. As a first time user, follow the link at bottom: "If you are a new user to Pachyderm frame editor, *Enter Here*".
3. Next page, your Pachyderm frame folder is created. You may write down the unique Pachyderm frame ID for future reference. Follow the link to continue.
4. You may add text, image to the stage, adjust text font, size, color, adjust image size. Select an image or text block by mouse click on them. The size adjusting button is a small square that will appear when the object is selected, drag this box to adjust the size. Also when an object is selected, you can move an object by dragging them. you remove it from the stage by click on remove, and add or remove a URL link associated with the object.
5. You may change the color of the Pachyderm stage background and the navigation button.
6. You may name your Pachyderm frame setting and click on save to save your configuration.
7. After it is saved, you may take a look at the xml data file, continue to work on frame editing, or publish the frame.
8. Once the frame is published, you can download the zip file, and view the frame setting in flash file root_border.swf.

Pachyderm Frame Editor


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Comments:

Comment from: D'Arcy Norman [Visitor] · http://www.darcynorman.net
Tim - great news! So, I'm assuming I can just manually merge the edited frame with a published presentation? Cool.
PermalinkPermalink 03/04/06 @ 12:59
Comment from: timwang [Member] Email · http://blog.loaz.com/timwang
Hey D'Arcy, yeah, you can simply replace the files in the zip package from Pachyderm. :)
PermalinkPermalink 03/04/06 @ 17:48

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