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Conventional presentation programs like MS Powerpoint and LO Impress work with slides. Sway uses a more flexible approach, using cards instead of slides. You can imagine a card like a little slide, about half the size of a regular slide. Slides are thought to be projected in a screen in sequence. Cards can be used in this way too, but they also can be overlapped forming a continuous string of cards in which the user can scroll up and down the contents like in a web page, which make them suitable for web browsers, and mobile devices like tables and smart phones
There is another major difference between cards and slides: In a conventional presentations program the user devotes a long time setting features as the font-type, size and color of the text, the background colors and the effects and transitions of the slides. Sway is equipped with a design engine, which gives automatically an eye-catching format to the document including transitions and special effects. The fact that the user can't personalize the format of the document might be seen as a disadvantage, however in most presentations the user needs to focus on the contents and doesn't mind much about the format as long as it is striking and attractive.
Microsoft calls a sway the documents carried out with Sway, in order to differentiate them from other traditional slides presentations.
Other interesting Sway features are:
Automatic graphic optimization for any kind of screen size or format
Quick sharing of the sway files to your Outlook contacts
Web based service. Sways are stored in the cloud for free, and therefore can be used wherever the user is as long as he is connected to Internet
TO CREATE A NEW SWAY
Open your web browser an log in the site sway.com, and click in the button Comenzar, next input a hotmail/outlook e-mail address and start a new sway session
Create a new sway clicking in any of the Crear Nuevo buttons shown on the image.
In the first empty card insert the tittle of the presentations: "EL MISTERIOSO MANUSCRITO VOYNICH"
Remember, the format is assigned by the design engine artificial Intelligence. We can ask the engine to emphasize (enfatizar), or to accent (resaltar) some part of the text, but it is it the engine who will apply the needed changes. Usually the I.A, will set bold letters to emphasize the text and italics to accent it, but actually the assigned format will depend on the template chosen by the user. Emphasize the words "MANUSCRITO VOYNICH"
Accent (resalta) the word 'Voynich', the word letters will become bold (emphasize) and italic (accent)
Select again the text MANUSCRITO VOYNICH and set a link to the wikipedia article treating the Voynich's manuscript subject clicking in the link button https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manuscrito_Voynich
Add a picture to the front page. If you have already a picture, drag it to the card area. If not, let Sway look for a suitable image. Doublce-click the rectangular area Background (fondo). Sway will show several possible search criteria (Not images). Select the first one, called El misterioso Manuscrito voynich
Give Sway some time to carry out the search. Then, some suggested contents will pop up in the left panel. Check them out and choose one of your liking (please only one different from the one shown above), and drag it on the image area of the card (the panel where with the text arrastra aquí una imagen) . Keep in mind that Sway is going to show not only pictures but also the video and other kind of contents, make sure what you have selected is a picture and not any other kind of content. You can use any other search criteria in the box Buscar en fuentes if none of the suggested pictures is good enough.
Add a second card. At the bottom of the current card there is a green cross button (see image below. Click there to insert a new card. There are several types of cards, (headers, text, images, video). For the time being, we will select text only card. But there are several other cards in the list allowing to insert in your sway all sort of contents as video, images, charts, twits etc.
The text you must include is shown below. Copy and paste it in the card.
El Manuscrito Voynich es un libro ilustrado, de contenidos desconocidos, escrito hace unos 500 años por un autor anónimo en un alfabeto no identificado y un idioma incomprensible, el denominado voynichés.
Click in the panel vista previa/Design (see the image below ) to watch a preview of the result. Scroll down In order to see the next slide. The text has been copied and pasted with a certain format (arial font type, black color) that Sway ignored whatsoever, because Sway is in charge of the design and format
To come back to the edition mode click in the button guión/storyline on the left top, (see the image below
Next we are going to insert an image card. Click in the add button (the green circle under the card) and select image. But now we are going to upload the image from our computer. Download the image below (contextual menu, save image as) and drag the image from the browser over the area Agregar una imagen.
Copy and paste the paragraph below in the card:
"El manuscrito ha sido estudiado por numerosos criptógrafos profesionales y aficionados. Hasta febrero de 2014 ninguno había conseguido descifrar una sola palabra. Esta sucesión de fracasos ha convertido al manuscrito en elSanto Grial de la criptografía histórica, pero a la vez ha alimentado la hipótesis de que el libro no es más que un elaborado engaño, una secuencia de símbolos al azar sin sentido alguno." La vista previa muestra un resultado que no es del todo satisfactorio
It should look like this. Never mind if Sway places it in a position different as the one seen in the image below. Remember you leave Sway in charge of the design:
Shall we try a different size of image. We can upscale the image using the buttons, sutil, moderado e intenso from the card toolbar
The slide won't work fine: the text is too long, or the image is too big, or both at the same time, and the Artificial Intelligence of the design engine can't find a way of framing (encuadrar) it. We are using Sway improperly. In this program the text related to a picture is called an image legend and is expected to be short. If we need to insert a long paragraph use a different text card. Correct the situation: copy the text to a new text card and write as a legend of the previous image card the text "El Voyniches"
Select the button Diseño and later in the button estilos to drop down the design options. Choose whatever of your liking and make sure it goes properly with the subject treated in this Sway
Click in the text slides and increase the font size clicking in the button Intenso
Look how the text in Sway stretches to half the screen.
We must insert a card with an small image, so that Sway could place it in the left of the text. Create a new card just before the text card and insert the image below. Remember the point is that the image must be small (around 500x700 pixels) which will allow Sway to put it closed to the next text card.
And the result is :
Next, we shall add a header card (tarjeta de encabezado). This type of cards allow to merge the image with a short text and is used as header of sections. The image you must insert is shown below. Download it and drag it on the card. The text for the card is:
Las ilustraciones del manuscrito no aclaran los contenidos del texto, casi la totalidad de las páginas contienen al menos una ilustración
This is the image
In Sway the headers are very important, because where you place a header, a section starts. All cards inserted after a header will belong to that header section until the next header is found. Sections provide a way to give thematic coherence to a document grouping the cards treating a similar subject. They also help the design engine to take the proper decisions about the cards formating. In the image below you can see two sections defined by two headers ("La botadura" and "El rescate de curro") the red arrows show the start and end of the section "La botadura".
Check out the section in the preview (la vista previa). Sway shows the header in an independent slide, while the rest of slides are shown in a continuous stream. Notice how in a header card, the picture takes up all the screen an the text is written over it whereas In image cards text and pictures are placed in different positions.
The preview shows that the result can be improved. Look at the next screen capture, as most of the image gets lost and the upper part of the plant is not visible either.
In Sway the image framing (encuadre) is automatic, because Sway must adapt the framing to different types of screens ( compute screens, tablets, cell phones, panoramic tv sets ...) But we can state, using focus points (puntos de enfoque) what is the part of the image most significant, so that the design engine makes its best to show it. Select the button enfocar puntos from the card.
A new panel appears: Enfocar puntos. On clicking over the image (as the red arrow shows in the picture below) the user establishes the part of the image Sway will try to show preferentially. Sway will show a preview of the picture in a mobile device (cell phone, tablet…) on the bottom part of the panel.
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The next section of our sway is going to be a gallery of pictures showing some of the illustrated pages in the Voynich's Manuscript. We will make the gallery inserting the following images in image cards
The result are these 4 image cards
Sway decides the images can be shown in the preview as a mosaic of individual cards out of their small size. But there is another options: instead of showing individual cards, Sway cards can be grouped, and showed with transitions and special effects, To group a number of cards: Select the one on the bottom, and drag it over the one over it.
To add the third image to the group, drag it to a position between the first and the second cards until you see appear a green strip between the images (look at the image). Pay attention to place correctly the image in the green strip. Otherwise you might form another group inside the first.
Remember, if you do it wrong you will form a group of two images inside a another group and we don't want that (see the image below) to happen.
We want this: a single group of 4 images
You can set up different ways of presenting the images of the group clicking on the group button. Check out the presentation in Pila and the presentación modes. The resaltado buttons allow to increase or reduce the image size.
We are going to go back and make a group with the two cards
Drag the image card over the group
Drag the text card on the group. Remember, the green strip must be visible as shown in the image below.
And the result must look like this
Make another group with this two cards
In a real sway about the Voynich's Manuscript, we should make 6 groups of cards, one for each sections of the manupscript. We will have to conform with two sections: the herbarium and the astrnomical section. Add the following images to form the herbarium card group.
Text:
Cada página muestra una planta (en ocasiones dos) y algunos párrafos de texto, un formato típico de herbarios europeos de la época. Algunas partes de estas ilustraciones son copias en mayor escala y detalle de bocetos vistos en la sección «farmacéutica»
Pictures
Create a group presenting these additional pictures of the herbarium and show it using one of the three presentation modes.
Pictures:
Add an astronomical section using these pictures and text.
Texto: Contiene diagramas circulares, algunos de ellos con soles, lunas y estrellas, lo que sugiere que trata de astronomía o astrología. Una serie de 12 diagramas muestra símbolos convencionales para constelaciones zodiacales (dos peces para Piscis, un toro para Tauro, un soldado con un arco para Sagitario, etc.). Cada símbolo está rodeado por exactamente 30 figuras de mujeres en miniatura, la mayoría de ellas desnudas, cada una sosteniendo una estrella. Las dos últimas páginas de esta sección (Acuario y Capricornio) se extraviaron, mientras que Aries y Tauro están separados en cuatro diagramas con 15 estrellas cada uno. Algunos de estos diagramas se encuentran en páginas desplegables.
Pictures
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VIDEO CARDS
One of the many advantages of Sway over the traditional presentation tools is the capability of integration of any multimedia content available for web pages. You can add a video card to a Sway. Download this video. Drag it to a card and check out if you are able to play it from the preview
A last issue: ¿where are the animations? In other presentation programs as PowerPoint and Impress, the user can assign animations to a number of slide objects. In Sway is not necessary to assign animation and special effects , since they are automatically generated Select the option navegación optimizada para presentación, and click on the button Reproducir to see the animations and effects.
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