Viewing a flipchart

When you open a flipchart, the Page Browser shows thumbnails of the pages in the flipchart and the work area in the ActivInspire window shows the first page of the flipchart.

Here we describe five easy ways to view a flipchart:

View one page at a time

Two ways to view one page at a time:

You automatically insert a new flipchart page when you click on the Next Page icon on the last page of a flipchart.

To prevent unwanted pages at the end of your flipcharts, always add an indicator to the last page. This could be a shape, a picture, or a simple "The End".   

Preview several pages at a time

You can increase or decrease the size of the thumbnails you see in the Page Browser. The smaller the thumbnails, the more pages you can preview at a time.

Two ways to preview several pages:

Example

The picture shows the two pages in the currently open flipchart as thumbnails in the Page Browser. You can see, in both the Browser and the work area, that the first page is the current page.

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Increase and decrease the page size

 

By default, ActivInspire is set to scale the complete flipchart page into the ActivInspire window. This is termed 'Best Fit'. You can easily change this with the drop-down menu at the top right-hand corner of the window.

Click the down icon, then select a setting to suit your needs. If you cannot see the down icon, click the >> icon.

Welcome to the World!

If you select a setting that is smaller than 100%, the size of the flipchart page will be proportionally reduced in the ActivInspire window.

This opens up an area around the flipchart page called the World. You can use the World like a blotter, to position objects temporarily outside the boundary of the flipchart page, for later use. These objects can then remain hidden when the page is scaled to fit the ActivInspire window. For example things you don't want to make visible to your students, or items you want to reveal at a certain point in a lesson.

Zoom in and out

You can use Page Zoom to magnify or shrink what you see on the flipchart. Page Zoom does not change your flipchart, it only affects how the flipchart is viewed.

Zoom in

  1. From the View Menu, select Page Zoom

  2. Click on the page and wait for a moment. The zoom begins and continues until you release the ActivPen or mouse button.

Page Zoom is now in the Quick Access Toolbar.

Zoom out

With Page Zoom selected:

  1. Right-click on the page.

  2. Hold the right-click button down.

If you double-click on the page while Page Zoom is selected, the Page Scale returns to Best Fit.

Pan around the flipchart

When you have zoomed in on a flipchart to the point where the flipchart page is larger than the ActivInspire window, you can no longer see the whole flipchart page at once.

In this situation you can pan around the page in one of two ways:

  • Use the vertical and horizontal slide bars that appear around the page

 

  • Use Page Zoom. Notice that when this tool is selected, as you move the cursor over the page, a small hand icon is displayed. If you now click on the page and drag, you can pan around the page to bring other areas into view.

Note that this behaviour also applies when you are zoomed out of the page.

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