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About
BoardMaster Projects
BoardMaster maintains links to all image and
sound files within your project. This means
the program does not incorporate your sound
or images into the project file but BoardMaster
remembers where your image and sound files are
located on your computer. Maintaining links
to files helps reduce duplication of image and
sound files which take up a large amount of
space on your system. The advantage to this
is that BoardMaster is very quick and responsive.
The drawback is that users may accidentally
move or delete files. Since BoardMaster links
to your files, if you move or delete an image
or sound file BoardMaster will not be able to
locate it. If you modify an image or a sound
file outside of BoardMaster it will also appear
modified within BoardMaster.
Creating
a Project
You can open and save projects from the icons
above, or by selecting "File" from
the main menu. As with most windows programs,
File New will create a new BoardMaster
Project, File Open will open an existing
Boardmaster Project, and File Save will
overwrite the current BoardMaster Project. File
Save As is only available from the "File"
Menu. To add a new file (image) to your project
see Adding
Images from Files. Once a project is created,
you will want to go to the Project
Settings and configure default values for
your project. BoardMaster suggests creating
an empty directory for your project and saving
your project file, and all images and sound
files in this same folder for clear organization.
The file format of the images you use if very
important. If you want to export your storyboard
to web pages, ensure you use file types that
are understood by your browser such as JPG.
Not all file formats are understood by all browsers.
See Exporting
Your Project for more details.
If it is speed you are looking for and want
your images to "flip" as quickly as
possible use BMP, but be prepared to have a
lot of disk space.
Tip: Although we have tried to make this software
as trouble free as possible, always back up
your work and save often.
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