In this chapter, &kpresenter; is introduced using a simple tutorial. We shall walk through the most basic steps that are involved in creating a presentation, and adding some basic effects. When you start &kpresenter;, the Choose Template dialogue appears. The Choose a Template dialogue The Choose a Template dialogue The default option is Start with an empty document. Select the template labelled Title (highlighted in red) by clicking on it. This also selects Create new document from a template. Now click OK. This brings up the slide editor window, where you can view and edit the slides (and objects contained in them) in your document. At the moment, we just have one slide, with one object on it, which is a text box. The slide editor The slide editor Double-click the text box. The cursor changes to a vertical bar to show that you can now type some text. The text insertion cursor The text insertion cursor Go ahead, type some text! Adding text Adding text Click away from the text to de-select the text box when you are done typing. Let's now add a new slide to our document. To do so, click the Insert menu, and then click on Page. Inserting a page from the menu Inserting a page from the menu This brings up the Insert Page dialogue. The Insert Page dialogue The Insert Page dialogue Click OK to accept the defaults, which will add a new page after page 1. The Choose dialogue comes up so that we can decide what the new slide should look like. This time, double click on the One template (highlighted in red.) Choosing a template for the new page Choosing a template for the new page The new slide now appears in the editing window. To change between pages of your presentation, you can select slides in the pane to the left (highlighted in red for this screenshot). The slides list The slides list The newly inserted page has two text boxes. There is one for a title, and another to contain a bulleted list of items. The new page The new page Double-click and type a title. Then double-click on the second text box. Note that a bullet automatically appears when you start typing. Type some text and end the paragraph by pressing the Enter or Return key. As you type new paragraphs, bullets automatically appear in front of them. Adding text to the second page Adding text to the second page You can de-select the text box by clicking away from it. Let's go back to the first page now. Use the list of slides on the left of your screen. In this section, we'll liven our presentation up a bit by adding a nice logo to the title page. To do so, the first step is to click on the Insert menu item, and then on Picture. Using the menu to add an image Using the menu to add an image This brings up a file selection dialog. To learn about this or other standard &kde; dialogue boxes in detail, please consult the &kde; documentation. You can browse by clicking on folder icons or by using the browser style buttons on the toolbar (highlighted in red.) Clicking the up arrow takes you up one directory level. Find the file named koffice-logo.png, which may be in a different directory than the one shown in the screenshot below. You can also choose any other graphic file if you like! Select the file, and click Open. Choosing a picture to add Choosing a picture to add The logo graphic is now visible in the top left corner of the editing window. There are selection handles (little black squares) visible around the border of the graphic. The newly added image The newly added image Place the mouse cursor anywhere in the middle of the logo, and drag it to the middle of the title page. Moving the image into place Moving the image into place That's it. Now you have a picture on the title page! Let's continue enhancing our title page by adding a shadow behind the title. Right click anywhere on the title text. This achieves two things: the text box containing the title is selected, and a menu pops-up. Select the Shadow option in the pop-up menu. The context menu The context menu The Shadow dialogue pops up. The distance between the shadow and the text is currently 0 so the shadow cannot be seen (this part of the dialogue box is highlighted in red.) The Shadow dialogue The Shadow dialogue Increase the distance value to 3. The effect of changing the distance can be seen in the preview window. Now click OK. Adding a shadow to the title Adding a shadow to the title Now the title has a shadow! The new shadowed title The new shadowed title Let's finish by changing the colour of the title text from black to blue. To do so, select the title text by double-clicking the text box. Change the colour to blue by clicking on the dark blue icon in the colour palette on the right side of the editing window (this icon is highlighted in red.) The colour palette The colour palette Changing the colour of the selected text to blue changes its appearance. The exact colour that highlighted text turns depends on your system colour scheme. Highlighted text Highlighted text Now click away from the text to de-select it. The finished title The finished title Now that there are two slides, why not try a slide show! To start the slide show, press the play button (the grey arrow) on the top toolbar. The first slide should appear on your screen. The first slide The first slide To advance from the first slide to the next, just click anywhere on the screen, or use the Page Down key. The second slide The second slide To exit the slide show, right click, and then select the Exit presentation option from the pop-up menu.