Publisher Studio: Presenting

Present puts your structure on the whole screen and turns it slowly, with nothing else on it. It is for the ten minutes before a meeting starts, while people are arriving and taking their seats, or for a stand at an exhibition where the screen has to do the work of stopping somebody walking past.

Presenting from the app is a Pro feature, along with the other ways of putting a document in front of somebody. See Account & Billing. It still travels with anything you have already published: a share link or a downloaded file carries its own Present button, whoever opens it.

Starting one

• Frame the structure on the canvas the way you want the room to see it. Whatever is on screen when you press the button is what you get, at the same size.
• Press Present in the toolbar under the graph, beside Spin Around.
• The screen fades, the panels go, and the structure starts to turn.

The controls

They sit along the bottom, and they fade away with the cursor after a few seconds of stillness, so a screen nobody is touching shows your work and nothing else. Move the mouse and they come back.

• Slower and Faster step the turn through five speeds, from one revolution every twenty seconds to one every hundred and sixty.
• The slowest step holds it still, which is the one you want when somebody asks about a node and you would rather it stayed put while you answer.
• Further and Closer step the distance. They are reversible, so three presses in and three back out lands on exactly the framing you started with.
• Legend shows or hides the colour key in the corner. That choice is remembered for next time, and so is the speed.
• Exit puts you back in the studio, and so does Escape.

Nothing else responds

The canvas is deliberately inert while you are presenting, so a stray hand on the mouse or a knock of the table cannot spin your structure or open a page in front of everybody. The keyboard is ignored too, apart from Escape.

In the documents you send

This is not only for your own screen. Every link you publish and every HTML file you export carries the same button in the row of controls under its graph, so whoever you sent it to can put it up in their own meeting, without you there and without installing anything.

Worth knowing

• It takes the whole screen, so the app's own title bar goes with it. In a shared document opened in a browser, the tabs and the address bar go too.
• In 2D the structure still turns, which means it passes through edge-on halfway round each revolution. Switch to 3D first if that is not the look you want.

To build the document in the first place, see Publisher Studio: Basics. To get it to somebody, see Publisher Studio: Sharing.