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[Loretta Shupe]

I'm responding to Bill Adams' query a few posts ago.

Bill, you are wondering if you need to consider what your 'output' will be before building your project?

I suppose most people have an idea of what they want to create when they begin. The 'other publishing options' is to show you what else you can do with your project if you like. If you created your project for viewing on a computer (which would be a CD-ROM or DVD-ROM), then you saw these other publishing options and thought, "Hey, I'd like to publish it that way!" You can. You can publish it more than one way.

If down the road you decide to make a DVD slideshow from this project, then all you would need to do is build a slideshow of an assortment of the pictures that you have loaded into your project, make it into a movie and it is ready to burn onto a DVD or a CD. The nice thing about the DVD is that it can hold up to 9 slideshow movies where the CD can only hold 1.

If you decided to make a JPG CD, all this means is that it will throw all of your JGP pictures onto a CD for burning which will automatically play in a DVD player. It has no menu. It will just begin and continue until it has gone through all of the pictures.

Does this help?

Loretta

[Bill Adams]

Loretta
My post related to organizing the initial page. It just seems to me that a section for preparing, a section for testing and a section for outputing are appropriate and that all subsidiary functions would be consolidated accordingly.

I prepare, edit, revise whatever, in one area or section.

I test my output using a different section. And, finally I go to the output section to output, according to my individual desires. And ALL output options should be there is my belief.

I well recognize that as one is preparing the data, the person much consider which output format will be used, and that some differing methods, technology, whatever will be used, will have an impact.

Just me and my individual approach.

Respectfully

Bill

[Bill Strickland]

I'm a bit late here, but have been away for a bit.

I think that since this software imports primarily from Windows based products, that most users would find the proposed main menu to be a more comfortable environment, especially at first introduction (without prior instruction).

Actually, I really do like the current design, now that I am getting familiar with it.

Windows folk do sort of look to the upper menu bar for "Help" - it has been the custom for the many itterations since msDOS, but once I found that is what the "?" button were for, well, that is okay, too.

I think I have mentioned that a searchable index to the Help file would be found to be most helpful ...

The product does have a unique 'fresh' feel to it, once you get introduced.
Remember, Reunion *is* one great program!

Bill Strickland

[dave]

I find that there is always a period of adjustment and learning whenever a new program is used, even if it's setup like a traditional Windows program — there are more bells and whistles in programs like Word and Photoshop than most of us will ever need to worry about. It took a few times to get used to PE, but I think I can find my away around pretty well now. The new proposed layout would work, too.