Exporting KPresenter presentations to Sony Memory Stick
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Exporting KPresenter presentations to Sony Memory Stick

Some Sony projectors have the ability to run a presentation directly from a Memory Stick™, without needing to connect a computer. KPresenter can export presentations to the format required to make this work, and this tutorial will show you how to export your presentation.

Each exported slideshow consists of a series of image files (one for each slide in the original presentation, plus two title slides) and an index file. They are created in a fairly complex directory structure that allows more than one presentation to be stored on a single memory stick. A simple example is shown below, consisting of two presentations.


Memory Stick™ directory structure
  1. If the presentation that you want to use is not already open, use the File menu and choose Open... to select the presentation that you want to export.

  2. Now use the File menu and choose Create Memory Stick Slideshow....


    The KPresenter Create Memory Stick
Slideshow... menu selection.
  3. This will bring up the Create Memory Stick Slideshow dialog. Select the Set Colors option to expand the dialog.


    The KPresenter Create Memory Stick
Slideshow dialog.
  4. The Path is the directory in which the top level directories (DCIM and MSSONY, see the directory structure diagram above) will be created. If you have the memory stick mounted, and have appropriate rights, you may wish to export directly to the removable media, in which case you would enter the mount point in this text box.

    The Title is used for both the name of the index file, and as a text label on the title slide. Note that this title does not affect the titles on any of the normal presentation slides - the title slide is visible using the Sony projector setup prior to starting the actual presentation display.

    The two color selectors in the Preliminary Slides group box are also only used for the title slide. It can be useful to change the title slides to make the presentations easier to identify when working on the projector, but it is safe and normal to leave them as the default.

  5. You can then select OK to proceed with the actual export process. This will close the current dialog, and bring up another dialog that advises of progress as the export takes place.


    The KPresenter Create Memory Stick
Slideshow progress dialog.

    When the export is complete, you can select the Done button, and the dialog will close.

  6. If you did not create the slideshow directly onto a mounted memory stick, you will need to copy over the correct files. As noted above, you need to copy over the correct directories and files starting at DCIM and MSSONY into the "root" of the Memory Stick™. It is critical that the directory structure is maintained, and you may find it easiest to copy the whole of DCIM and MSSONY directories.

    If necessary, you can safely rename the index file (which is Slideshow.SPP by default), however you cannot rename the slide images, nor can you change the name of the directory, as these are encoded into the index file.

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