While Impatica files are ideally suited for online delivery of content, many of our clients have also inquired about delivering their impaticized content on a CD. This is certainly possible, so this edition of Impatica Tips has been largely dedicated to providing instructions for this process. Volume 01-05 May 13, 2005 Want to review our previous editions of Impatica Tips? Please visit our archive.   Receive Impatica Tips in your Inbox! You can subscribe and get Impatica Tips twice a month.   Are you up to date? The latest version of Impatica products is currently 3.3.3 for Windows and 3.0.0 for Mac OS X. Version 2 users: Version 3 of Impatica for PowerPoint requires new registration information. If you would like to upgrade your software, please contact the Impatica Sales Team Version 3 Users: - Click here to download the latest version of Impatica for PowerPoint. - Click here to download the latest version of Impatica for PowerPoint for Mac OS X. - Click here to download the latest version of Impatica OnCue.   Your feedback is very important to us! Send your ideas for future editions of Impatica Tips to Impatica Customer Support Distributing Impatica Content on an Autorun CD This tip offers advice on how to produce an autorun CD that contains impaticized content. Every autorun CD requires a *.inf file that contains autorun instructions. The following contains the contents of a sample "autorun.inf" file. This file automatically launches the HTML page that contains the impaticized content when the CD is placed in a CD-ROM drive. To produce the *.inf file, paste the following bolded text into a Microsoft Notepad document: [autorun] open = ShellExe.exe YourImpaticaFileName.html NOTE: Ensure that you replace the "YourImpaticaFileName.html" section of the above example with the name of your actual Impatica launching HTML file. Save the Notepad document with the name: autorun.inf The next step is to place the following files into a folder within your CD project: *-imp.jar, *.imv files if any (there will only be *.imv files if your PowerPoint file contained video clips), player *.jar file (ImPlayer333.jar or ImPlayer333-Video.jar) These files cannot be placed at the root of the CD. Once you have decided on a folder name for the *-imp.jar, *.imv files (if any) and player *.jar file, you must then edit the Impatica-generated HTML file by inserting "CODEBASE= foldername/" within the applet tag. This codebase line will tell the Impatica applet where to find the player *.jar file(s) and the impaticized content *-imp.jar file(s) on the CD. Here are examples of what the final applet tags will look like under two different circumstances; a PowerPoint file with video and one without video: When your presentation contains video: <APPLET CODE = "com.impatica.v333 .ImPlayerConsole.class" CODEBASE = "YourFolderName/" ARCHIVE = "ImPlayer333-Video.jar" WIDTH = 720 HEIGHT = 564> <PARAM NAME = "ARCHIVE" VALUE = "ImPlayer333-Video.jar"> <PARAM NAME = "COLOR0" VALUE = "FFFFFF"> <PARAM NAME = "COLOR1" VALUE = "000000"> <PARAM NAME = "FILE" VALUE = "YourFileName-imp.jar"> <PARAM NAME = "BGCOLOR" VALUE = "FFFFFF"> </APPLET> When your presentation does not contain video: <APPLET CODE = "com.impatica.v333.ImPlayerConsole.class" CODEBASE = "YourFolderName/" ARCHIVE = "ImPlayer333.jar" WIDTH = 720 HEIGHT = 564> <PARAM NAME = "ARCHIVE" VALUE = "ImPlayer333.jar"> <PARAM NAME = "COLOR0" VALUE = "FFFFFF"> <PARAM NAME = "COLOR1" VALUE = "000000"> <PARAM NAME = "FILE" VALUE = "YourFileName-imp.jar"> <PARAM NAME = "BGCOLOR" VALUE = "FFFFFF"> </APPLET> Once you have entered the CODEBASE into the applet tag, save the HTML file. The final step is to place the edited HTML file and the autorun.inf file at the root of the CD project. With all of the elements in place, burn your CD project and then test your CD. For additional reading and research on this topic, perform a search in Google for "autorun.inf files". LMS Usage Tips We have heard from Impatica Tips subscribers that they would like to see tips related to using Impatica content in their specific Learning Management Systems. Given that we do not use these systems on a regular basis, we thought it best to turn to the experts - you. Please forward any tips you have about how you use impaticized content within your LMS. We are looking for tips related to innovative use of Impatica for PowerPoint for course/training content development, methods for incorporating content into your courses that are not described in a tutorial on our site, etc. We will share your tips as they are received. "Apply to All" and "Save as Default" Buttons When using Impatica for PowerPoint, you may want to use the same conversion settings for many PowerPoint files. The "Apply to All" and "Save as Default" buttons provide this functionality. Each tab in the "Conversion Settings" section of Impatica for PowerPoint includes an "Apply to All" and a "Save as Default" button. Click the "Apply to All" button to apply the settings on the current tab to all of the files displayed in the Source PowerPoint Files list. To create default settings, click the "Save as Default" button. Once saved as the defaults, the settings on the current tab will be applied to any additional files added to this batch of source files and will be the default settings for this tab when you run Impatica for PowerPoint in the future.