Page Editor
A full multimedia WYSIWYG editing system for our electronic noticeboard system. This editor gives you total freedom for page design by allowing the user to drag page elements around the screen and place them in the exact required location. Any number of images and text blocks can be placed on the page as required. Photographs can be stretched to fill a space or set to maintain their correct aspect ratio. The editor also allows you to create noticeboard pages in correct widescreen formats and in portrait modes.
The editor can create a display page that incorporates a television channel. This is shown in the image below. The green square will be where the television picture will appear on the final display page. This can be moved to any position within the edit window by simply dragging it around with the mouse. You also change the size of the TV image to any size that you desire. Selecting the TV channel is a matter of entering the channel number into the channel box. The system can select a video input or tuner input by ticking a tick box. A typical use for this might be to show a news channel on some noticeboard screens during the lunch period.
 | The image on the left shows the editor creating a page that shows television or video from a DVD player as described above. |
The noticeboard system has a facility to play videos. To add a video into a display page, the editor allows the simple selection of a video file. This can be previewed in the video selector before final seletion. Once a video has been selected, it can be placed anywhere in the edit window and moved around to the desired location with the mouse. Like all other elements in the editor, the video can be sized by dragging the bottom right corner of the video clip to fill the screen if required.
 | The image on the left shows the video file selector for incluson in a display page. |
Selecting an image for loading into the editor is easily done by selecting an image thumbnail. This can be configured to fill the screen or you can drag the image around to the desired position. By using the WYSIWYG nature of the editor you can place images that overlap each other while the system will always place any text above the images.
 | Thumbnail image selection for adding photographs to your electronic noticeboard displays. |
Below are some sample pages created with the editor.
Features
- Multiple Images can be placed anywhere
- A Single video clip can be positioned anywhere and any size
- Placement of a TV image anywhere and any size (Requires NDDTV units)
- Multiple text sections can be placed anywhere
- Snapping to Horizontal, Vertical Grid
- Shows an alignment grid to aid positioning of page elements
- 500 levels or undo/redo
- Highlighted Text
- Selectable Font
- Selectable Font Size
- Selectable Font Alignment
- Selectable Font Colour
- Different borders around text and picture elements
- Selectable Background Colour
- Selectable Background Graphic
- Text Search Of Page Database
- Pages Can Be Created Very Quickly
- Creates Pages at 800x600, 1024x768 or 1280x1024 Resolution
- Now creates pages with widescreen resolutions 1280x720, 1280x768, 1366x768 Resolution
- Allows creation of pages in the popular portrait mode
