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Creating a slideshow from a PDF

Method 1: From the Mediaboards menu

Method 2: From the add content menu

Method 3: Sharing the URL in the chat

Slide Presenters vs Self Paced Viewing

Slide aspect ratio and background color

Turn on preserve aspect ratio

Slide background color

Resize the mediaboard to match slide aspect (use with preserve aspect setting only)

Updating a slideshow (after updating the PDF)

Force a slideshow to display in HD

Adding actions to slides

Playing Shuffle audio SFX on first slide

Skip slides 2.16+

Card Decks aka Random Mode 2.16+

This feature is available from version 2.15 of the platform onward

Creating a slideshow from a PDF

There are several methods to create a 3D slideshow from a PDF. Keep in mind there are a few requirements:

  • Changing the original PDF will not update the slideshow in the 3D environment. For instructions on how to do that, check the “updating a slideshow section.

Method 1: From the Mediaboards menu

Click on the pencil icon, then on Add Mediaboard.

Select the Slideshow option.

On the URL field, paste an url for your content. Click on Create.

The mediaboard will be automatically created. It will display a “rendering” temporary message while the PDF is converted to a slideshow.

Method 2: From the add content menu

Click on the Pencil icon / Add content menu item

Paste the URL to your PDF file and click import

Select slideshow from the media type selection popup

The mediaboard will be automatically created. It will display a “rendering” temporary message while the PDF is converted to a slideshow.

Method 3: Sharing the URL in the chat

In a multiuser experience, urls can be pasted into the chat.

A red pin icon will appear next to the url. Clicking on that icon will import that url into the 3D environment.

After clicking on the pin icon, select slideshow from the media type selection popup.

The mediaboard will be automatically created. It will display a “rendering” temporary message while the PDF is converted to a slideshow.

Slide Presenters vs Self Paced Viewing

By default, slideshow status is synchronized between users so everyone sees the same slide. But this can be turned off in the settings by setting the parameter Synchronize playback checkbox to false.

Use these settings for presenting slides synchronized to all participants (this is the default configuration)

Use these settings if you wish each participant to browse the slides independently at their own pace

In this case you will want to Select all Roles with control permissions

Slide aspect ratio and background color

By default slides are placed in the space with an aspect ratio of 4:3. Your original PDF may differ from this. To preserve the aspect ratio do the following.

Turn on preserve aspect ratio

This will fit the slides within the 4:3 mediaboard leaving an boxed view to the sides or the top depending on the aspect of the original slides.

Slide background color

By default mediaboards have a background color of black. Some PDFs include transparency and expect the background they appear on to be white. If your slides look to have a black background when it should be white adjust the following setting.

Choose white as your Bg Color.

Resize the mediaboard to match slide aspect (use with preserve aspect setting only)

Use the show advanced transform controls and choose scale.

Scale the either on X or Y to suit your needs visually.

Updating a slideshow (after updating the PDF)

If a slideshow was created by converting any kind of file (for example, pdf), updating the source file will not update the slideshow in the 3d environment. The file will need to be processed again by doing the following:

Access the slideshow settings by going into edit mode or by clicking on the settings option from the slideshow menu. (Editor permissions are required)

Click on the Update slides button.

The button will change to reflect the status of the conversion. It might take up to 30 seconds for it to complete. When it’s completed, the button will turn green and show “Success” on it.

Force a slideshow to display in HD

In order to force a slideshow to use the HD quality (only advised when necessary, since this has an impact in performance and stability), this property needs to be added to the metadata field of the slideshow:

"slideshowImageQuality": "hd,ld"

Adding actions to slides

Actions can be configured to be executed when a determined slide is shown. The property “slideActions” must be added to the metadata field. It is an array of objects with the following properties:

  • slide (required): Slide number in which the action will be triggered
  • mode (optional, default null): Special rule for determining whether the action will trigger or not. Values:
  • onlyForwards: Action will only execute when the slide was reached from the previous one (by clicking the ‘next’ button)
  • onlyBackwards: Action will only execute when the slide was reached from the following one (by clicking the ‘previous’ button)
  • executeOnlyOnce: The action will only execute once in the session

Note: Actions don’t need to be configured to propagate themselves, as the slide will execute the action for all users.

Here is a full example for a slideshow with actions

{
 
"slideshowImageQuality": "hd,ld",
 
"slideActions": [
   {
     
"slide": 2,
     
"action": {
       
"action": "displayNotification",
       
"message": "This will execute whenever we visit slide 2"
     }
   },
   {
     
"slide": 3,
     
"mode": "onlyBackwards",
     
"action": {
       
"action": "displayNotification",
       
"message": "This will only execute when going from 4 to 3"
     }
   },
   {
     
"slide": 3,
     
"mode": "onlyForwards",
     
"action": {
       
"action": "displayNotification",
       
"message": "This will only execute when going from 2 to 3"
     }
   },
   {
     
"slide": 4,
     
"executeOnlyOnce": true,
     
"action": {
       
"action": "displayNotification",
       
"message": "This will execute on slide 4. Only once"
     }
   }
 ],
 
"slides": {
   
"dd": [
     
"https://pdf-api.learnbrite.com/data/c64ef49c4d40fd192722f450bf737607e0f82cec9de90afc27604c03df2dcb60/images/dd/001.png",
     
"https://pdf-api.learnbrite.com/data/c64ef49c4d40fd192722f450bf737607e0f82cec9de90afc27604c03df2dcb60/images/dd/002.png",
     
"https://pdf-api.learnbrite.com/data/c64ef49c4d40fd192722f450bf737607e0f82cec9de90afc27604c03df2dcb60/images/dd/003.png",
     
"https://pdf-api.learnbrite.com/data/c64ef49c4d40fd192722f450bf737607e0f82cec9de90afc27604c03df2dcb60/images/dd/004.png",
     
"https://pdf-api.learnbrite.com/data/c64ef49c4d40fd192722f450bf737607e0f82cec9de90afc27604c03df2dcb60/images/dd/005.png",
     
"https://pdf-api.learnbrite.com/data/c64ef49c4d40fd192722f450bf737607e0f82cec9de90afc27604c03df2dcb60/images/dd/006.png"
   ],
   
"hd": [
     
"https://pdf-api.learnbrite.com/data/c64ef49c4d40fd192722f450bf737607e0f82cec9de90afc27604c03df2dcb60/images/hd/001.png",
     
"https://pdf-api.learnbrite.com/data/c64ef49c4d40fd192722f450bf737607e0f82cec9de90afc27604c03df2dcb60/images/hd/002.png",
     
"https://pdf-api.learnbrite.com/data/c64ef49c4d40fd192722f450bf737607e0f82cec9de90afc27604c03df2dcb60/images/hd/003.png",
     
"https://pdf-api.learnbrite.com/data/c64ef49c4d40fd192722f450bf737607e0f82cec9de90afc27604c03df2dcb60/images/hd/004.png",
     
"https://pdf-api.learnbrite.com/data/c64ef49c4d40fd192722f450bf737607e0f82cec9de90afc27604c03df2dcb60/images/hd/005.png",
     
"https://pdf-api.learnbrite.com/data/c64ef49c4d40fd192722f450bf737607e0f82cec9de90afc27604c03df2dcb60/images/hd/006.png"
   ],
   
"ld": [
     
"https://pdf-api.learnbrite.com/data/c64ef49c4d40fd192722f450bf737607e0f82cec9de90afc27604c03df2dcb60/images/ld/001.png",
     
"https://pdf-api.learnbrite.com/data/c64ef49c4d40fd192722f450bf737607e0f82cec9de90afc27604c03df2dcb60/images/ld/002.png",
     
"https://pdf-api.learnbrite.com/data/c64ef49c4d40fd192722f450bf737607e0f82cec9de90afc27604c03df2dcb60/images/ld/003.png",
     
"https://pdf-api.learnbrite.com/data/c64ef49c4d40fd192722f450bf737607e0f82cec9de90afc27604c03df2dcb60/images/ld/004.png",
     
"https://pdf-api.learnbrite.com/data/c64ef49c4d40fd192722f450bf737607e0f82cec9de90afc27604c03df2dcb60/images/ld/005.png",
     
"https://pdf-api.learnbrite.com/data/c64ef49c4d40fd192722f450bf737607e0f82cec9de90afc27604c03df2dcb60/images/ld/006.png"
   ]
 }
}

Playing Shuffle audio SFX on first slide

When the deck first displays (on load of the space) and when you choose to shuffle and restart a deck set to random slides the shuffling sound effect will play. Add the highlighted code to your Metadata (note the ending bracket).

{
 
"slideshowImageQuality": "hd,ld",
 
"slideActions": [
   {
     
"slide": 1,
     
"executeOnlyOnce": false,
     
"action": {
       
"action": "playSFX",
       
"url": "https://cache.learnbrite.com/_assets_/audio/shuffling-cards-1.mp3"
     }
   }
 ],

 
"slides": {
   
"dd": [
"https://pdf-api.learnbrite.com/data/c82de780199f5c64b694c407025fccf3f9a6fb74067b432bbbfdd0acd51c19d0/images/dd/001.png",
"https://pdf-api.learnbrite.com/data/c82de780199f5c64b694c407025fccf3f9a6fb74067b432bbbfdd0acd51c19d0/images/dd/002.png",
"https://pdf-api.learnbrite.com/data/c82de780199f5c64b694c407025fccf3f9a6fb74067b432bbbfdd0acd51c19d0/images/dd/003.png",
"https://pdf-api.learnbrite.com/data/c82de780199f5c64b694c407025fccf3f9a6fb74067b432bbbfdd0acd51c19d0/images/dd/004.png",
"https://pdf-api.learnbrite.com/data/c82de780199f5c64b694c407025fccf3f9a6fb74067b432bbbfdd0acd51c19d0/images/dd/005.png",
"https://pdf-api.learnbrite.com/data/c82de780199f5c64b694c407025fccf3f9a6fb74067b432bbbfdd0acd51c19d0/images/dd/006.png",
   ],
   
"ld": [      "https://pdf-api.learnbrite.com/data/c82de780199f5c64b694c407025fccf3f9a6fb74067b432bbbfdd0acd51c19d0/images/ld/001.png",
"https://pdf-api.learnbrite.com/data/c82de780199f5c64b694c407025fccf3f9a6fb74067b432bbbfdd0acd51c19d0/images/ld/002.png",
"https://pdf-api.learnbrite.com/data/c82de780199f5c64b694c407025fccf3f9a6fb74067b432bbbfdd0acd51c19d0/images/ld/003.png",
"https://pdf-api.learnbrite.com/data/c82de780199f5c64b694c407025fccf3f9a6fb74067b432bbbfdd0acd51c19d0/images/ld/004.png",
"https://pdf-api.learnbrite.com/data/c82de780199f5c64b694c407025fccf3f9a6fb74067b432bbbfdd0acd51c19d0/images/ld/005.png",
"https://pdf-api.learnbrite.com/data/c82de780199f5c64b694c407025fccf3f9a6fb74067b432bbbfdd0acd51c19d0/images/ld/006.png",
   ]
 }
}

Skip slides 2.16+

This field allows for slides to be ignored from the presentation. It supports slide indexes separated by commas.

Card Decks aka Random Mode 2.16+

Using cards drawn from a deck of cards is a useful way to run game like experiences. You can create gamified experiences using your own custom card deck.

This mode enables you to create slide or card decks where selected cards get removed from the deck as they are drawn. You can see an example here https://app.learnbrite.com/dashboard/spaces/visit/spc934f7a29d5aeef7ee6f0f9

To create a card deck make a PDF where each page is a card image. Here is an example https://cache.learnbrite.com/_assets_/playing_cards/card_deck.pdf 

By having synchronized playback enabled every one in the room will see the same revealed card.

When Random Mode is enabled, the Slideshow controls no longer allow for selecting previous and next slides, but a randomly selected one. Only one button is displayed in the interface.

Each time the button is pressed, a new slide is selected randomly, and the current one is added to the skip slides field, that means they are no longer available to be selected. At the end, when all slides have been displayed, the button will be disabled.

Users with control permission can clear the status and make every slide available again by clicking on the gear button and selecting ‘shuffle and restart’.

By default, the first slide will be displayed when ‘Shuffle and restart’ is pressed. To specify a slide index to be displayed first, the slide index needs to be added to the field ‘Start slide after shuffle’.

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