From Bob’s original Learning Nuggets archive. Instructions and screenshots refer to Trial Director 6.8.
Any good basic training will include a section on pretreating exhibits, like highlighting, drawing arrows, etc. as you prepare an exhibit ahead of time. However, all the annotation tools in the TrialDirector (TD) 6 toolchest aren't all available in the document set-up part of TD 6. There are several tools and techniques available only in Presentation.
The tools in Presentation that also help you prepare pretreated documents are called Screen Snapshot and Save Stage. Both allow you to use tools and techniques in Presentation, but diverge on the end result:
Screen Snapshot allows you to create a static picture of the presentation screen.
- It's fairly low resolution document
- It does not allow for changes within the screen snapshot
- A new image file is generated (.jpg), which is saved a new folder wherever you're case is located
- The new document is physically saved with the originating document, in the Case Explorer
- A shortcut to the document is also saved in a Snapshots workbook
- When presenting a screen snapshot, you will see what looks like a screen within a screen
- After generating a screen snapshot, you might need to refresh the Case Explorer and/or the Workbook Explorer
- When needing to place a copy of the screen snapshot, drag and drop the document from the Case Explorer, not the Screen Snapshots workbook
- You can rename a screen snapshot
Save Stage allows you to save an interactive, editable screen:
- The file generated as a saved stage is the same resolution as whatever you started with
- A saved stage will appear exactly as you saved whatever was on your screen, but you can change any element of a saved stage. More like a jumping off point, for a discussion of an exhibit
- The new document is physically saved as a new, separate document, in the Case Explorer
- A shortcut to the document is also saved in a SaveStage workbook
- When presenting a save stage, you will see exactly whatever you saved
- After generating a Save Stage, you might need to refresh the Case Explorer and/or the Workbook Explorer
- When needing to place a copy of the Save Stage, drag and drop the document from the Case Explorer, not the SaveStage workbook
- You can rename a SaveStage
The last component of this topic will list several of the useful tooks available in Presentation, that are not available to us in the document set up portion:
- Zones
- Projection Zoom
- Magnification Zoom
- Yes/No Stamps
- Enumerated numbers/letters
- Blur
- Signature Compare
- Whiteboard
Instructional screenshots
