Presenta On-Line Manual

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Loading and Saving Drawings

Use the application menu to open existing files, save and export to PDF.

Shapes

Shapes a stored natively as close Bezier curves. They can be composed of move, line and arc components to form a shape.

Connectors

Editing Drawings

In order to edit a drawing you must either create a new drawing or open and existing drawing using the available menu options.

The Presenta screen provides a multi-page interface, with each page associated with the "Tab" buttons at the bottom of the screen.

Context sensitive menus provide much of the editing functionality to add or change the look of shapes. These menus can be displayed with a simple Control-Click on the page background, tabs or shapes.

Connectors can be created either from the context menu or by Cmd-Drag from a shape. To link a connector to a shape, click on it and drag the end handle to a connection handle on the target shape. The connector will then remain attached as the shapes are moved around.

The Shape Library

Keyboard Shortcuts

The application menu can be used or the following keyboard shortcuts to save time:

  • Cmd-S = Save