AMX InspiredSignage XPress Features
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AMX InspiredSignage XPress Programming Guide
Learning XPress authoring features
The first step towards using XPress authoring features is to understand the concept of an XPress project. Read
the section devoted to this subject in the XPress projects section on page 6.
On these projects, you may experiment the main authoring functionalities such as:
Operations on files and collections
Creating new documents
Editing a document
Editing a multi-layer document
Editing a playlist
Managing the aspect ratio
XPress projects
A project is any collection of author and preview content intended to be published later on IS-SPX-1000
players. A project is a special folder that contains a master file (index.svg) and all the media elements (e.g.
video clips, images, texts, animations, scripts, etc.) that are composed together to create the XPress
presentation. Note that not all media elements need to be copied inside a project, and IS-SPX-1000 can be
instructed to access remote locations and retrieve content on the fly by using PHP scripts. This structure is very
similar to a web page with an index.html file and all the media elements that will appear when the user
browses the web site.
By default, XPress regroups all the projects under My Projects, a folder automatically created on your hard
drive while installing XPress under \\My Documents\InspiredSignage XPress\
The folder My Projects appears in the browsing area when you select the default Workspace view.
When you open the My Projects folder (FIG. 5), you can access a number of actions by right-clicking the
browsing area. In particular you can:
Create new projects.
Create new collections of projects so as to organize your projects in functional groups.
The notion of a project as introduced by XPress has several advantages. In particular:
The user can create projects offline, preview them and keep modifying them without affecting the
actual presentations displayed by an IS-SPX-1000 player. When the project is finalized, it is easy to
publish it on the target device.
The user can apply conventional backup systems on the My Projects folder to reduce the risk of
losing data.
A single project can be published on a single player or multiple players, which reduces the effort
required to manage the same content on different displays.
When the network connection between the PC and the IS-SPX-1000 players is slow or temporarily
unavailable, XPress offers an offline solution to edit the project content.
You can open multiple views and navigate inside each of them: each view will be
displayed as a different tab.
FIG. 5 My Projects folder
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Manymanuals.com
Manymanuals.de
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Manymanuals.it
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Manymanuals.cz
Manymanuals.es
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