Presentation exports (Keynote, PowerPoint)

NovaMind allows you to export to Keynote by using its built-in Keynote functionality. You do not need to have Keynote installed in order to export to Keynote.

When exporting, there are several options presented on the save panel to control how the presentation is produced:

This section allows you to choose which version of Keynote you are exporting to, and the size of the presentation (in pixels). The presentation will be exported using a White theme - you can change to a different theme from within Keynote if desired.

Zoom to (x) % of page - When the export is done, the first page of the presentation is the mind map itself. In most situations, you would probably want the mind map to fill the first page of the presentation, but if you want it to take up less room, then change this setting to less than 100%. Note that if your mind map is small, it will be zoomed up, but only to a maximum of 200% of its original size.

Include hidden branch text - if you turn this option on, even though the mind map you have on the front of the presentation may have some branches hidden, they will still be included in the slides themselves.

Show (x) sub-branches per page. When the export to Keynote is done, each of the first level branches starts a new page of the presentation. The title of the page is the first level branch title, and the rest of the branches are presented as bullets on the page, indented to the appropriate level. There is, however, only a certain amount of space on each page, so this option allows you to limit the number of sub-branches to appear on each page. If a branch has more than that number of sub-branches, additional pages are added with the same heading, and continuing the branches. Note that if a second or subsequent page starts with a sub-branch not immediately below the first level branch, Keynote requires the addition of extra bullet levels from level 1 down to the required level for the branch in order for it to display the branch. in the NovaMind export to Keynote, this is done in such a way as to be invisible to the user - one point empty text with no bullet and no spacing between lines.

Multiply text size by (x) - Due to the nature of presentations, it is likely that you will need to have larger text on your presentation than you have in your mind map, so this option allows you to multiply the size of all the text to go on the text slides by the specified factor.

Each of the elements that makes up the mind map is exported to Keynote as an individual graphic or text box. This means that if you want to add, edit, move, or remove items, you can do so within Keynote.

To avoid unintentional editing of the individual graphics, when the Keynote file is created the graphics are grouped together, so you can move them as a single unit.

If you want to edit the individual elements, just ungroup them.

This can be useful for progressively showing the building of the Mind Map by using versions of the Mind Map with only some of the branches, and then using a cross-fade transition between slides.

When exporting to PowerPoint, NovaMind collaborates with the version of PowerPoint running on the machine. If you do not have PowerPoint software on the same machine, export will not work.

When exporting, there are several options presented on the save panel to control how the presentation is produced:

When you export, the image of the Mind Map is scaled to the required size for the presentation itself. The image may be scaled within PowerPoint as you are editing your presentation, and may look fuzzy because of the scaling on your screen, however, when you do your presentation, it will display at the resolution it was imported at, and therefore will not look fuzzy for the presentation.

Include shadows - these are the shadows you can add to the branches in NovaMind. The shadows will be applied to the whole Mind Map picture in all the places you have shadows set.

Show (x) sub-branches per page. When the export to PowerPoint is done, each of the first level branches starts a new page of the presentation. The title of the page is the first level branch title, and the rest of the branches are presented as bullets on the page, indented to the appropriate level. There is, however, only a certain amount of space on each page, so this option allows you to limit the number of sub-branches to appear on each page. If a branch has more than that number of sub-branches, additional pages are added with the same heading, and continuing the branches.

NovaMind exports to the current presentation - you must have a presentation open in order for NovaMind to insert the new slides. If you have an existing presentation and you want the NovaMind presentation to be inserted at a certain place in the file, select the slide you want to start the NovaMind portion of your presentation on, and NovaMind will insert the slides after that.

A: You will only see this if you turn on the outline format display in PowerPoint.

Q: Even when I turn on the PowerPoint outline format display, I can't see the colors of the notes text - why is this?

A: PowerPoint doesn't display the colors of the notes text when displayed in the normal layout, but does when you print the notes or switch to notes view mode.

A: You need to install the Microsoft Language Register by using the Value Pack installer on your Microsoft Office X CD. Drag the application icon for PowerPoint on top of the Microsoft Language Register utility. In the Select the language to enable for pop-up menu, click Japanese.