Slides & presenting
Build a deck from a talk you have written, present it on the Mac, and run it from the phone in your hand with your notes on it.
Slide Studio
Decks are made in Slide Studio on the Mac. Build one from a piece of writing with Build Presentation Deck in the editor’s toolbar or the Writing list, or start with New Presentation Deck in the File menu. A deck you built from a writing stays linked to it.
The slide list down the side reorders, duplicates, hides and deletes slides. The inspector beside the slide has two panes. Slide shows the layouts as pictures to choose from, Skip while presenting, and the slide’s content. Deck sets the title, the aspect ratio (16:9 or 4:3), the theme — Lamp Dark or Parchment, each shown as your first slide drawn in it — and the typeface. Decks save themselves as you work; the Undo Edit and Redo Edit toolbar buttons take back a change, a burst of typing at a time. A deck that can’t be saved yet — a title cleared to retype it, say — is kept as a draft on the Mac, and comes back when you reopen it. The Deck menu in the toolbar saves, imports, exports and deletes the deck.
Layouts and content
| Layout | For |
|---|---|
| Title, Closing | Opening and closing slides, optionally with passages under the heading |
| Title & Body | A heading with text, bullets or a numbered list |
| Scripture | A passage with its citation |
| Quotation | A quotation from another source, with its citation |
| Two Columns | Two passages or lists to compare, each column with its own heading |
| Image | A picture beside the text, or behind the whole slide |
| Blank | Anything else |
Choose Scripture inserts a passage from any installed translation together with its citation. Quotation marks and ellipses are set typographically on the slide while your text is kept as typed. Words over a background picture are kept legible by blurring and tinting behind them, and images take an accessibility description.
A chart shows how a Strong’s number is used. Give it the number, a translation and, if you like, a run of books such as NT or Matthew-John, and narrow it, if you want, to one way the word is translated, one form or one grammatical value. Then choose what to count — by book, section, how it is translated, form, a grammatical feature, each translation side by side, or the words found with it — and how to draw it: bars, columns in Bible order, a grid of chapters, a share of the whole, or the analysis’s headword card over a column for each book. Lamp works the figures out from your library, the same way as the analysis, and draws them in the slide’s colours; a key says which books hold more or fewer than chance would give. Where a chart rests on tags a translation gained when its module was built, a line under it says so. Add to Deck, on any figure in the analysis, starts a chart from it.
Slide Studio checks a deck as you go. Errors stop it saving, exporting or playing until they are fixed; warnings — low contrast, a crowded slide, a picture without a description, content a layout will not show — are listed but do not.
Speaker notes from your manuscript
Each slide has Presenter Notes. Write them freely, or turn on Follow the writing and give each slide the phrase where its part of the talk Begins at: the linked writing is then split across the slides as your notes, and stays in step as you keep editing it. If you change the writing so that a phrase is no longer there, the slide says so.
Presenting on the Mac
Play presents the deck full screen — on a second display, if one is connected. Hidden slides are skipped.
| To | Press |
|---|---|
| Go forward | →, ↓, Page Down, Space, Return, or click |
| Go back | ←, ↑, Page Up, ⇧Space or Delete |
| First / last slide | Home / End |
| Black the screen | B or . |
| Stop | Esc |
The pointer hides itself when it sits still. The Mac shows the audience only the slide; your notes, the next slide and the time are on the remote.
The iPhone and iPad remote
Lamp Bible on an iPhone or iPad can run the presentation, with your speaker notes in front of you.
- On the Mac, choose Pair Remote in Slide Studio. It shows a QR code and a sixteen-letter code.
- On the phone, tap the remote button at the top of the home screen. The Mac appears under Nearby; choose it, then Scan QR Code or type the code.
- From then on, the phone reconnects to that Mac without pairing again. Either side can forget the other.
The remote shows the current slide and, when there is room, the next one; your presenter notes, at a size you choose; the slide number and the time since you started. Tap the slide or Next to move on, use Previous or Choose slide to go anywhere, and black the audience screen from the phone. Pictures show as placeholders on the remote.
Sharing and printing decks
- Export PDF in the Deck menu makes a PDF of the slides, one per page (Slides Only…), or of each slide above its speaker notes for printing (Slides with Speaker Notes…). Hidden slides are left out, and the pages are numbered as the slides are presented.
- Export Deck… saves a
.lampdeckfile, which another Mac can open in Slide Studio with Import Deck…. Pictures are not included in the file. - Decks sync to your other devices. On iPhone and iPad, Slide Decks in the Write library’s menu shows each deck as a card with its first slides listed, and a writing with a deck shows a Slides button. A deck opens full screen — on an iPhone, turned sideways — one slide at a time, skipping hidden slides, with its presenter notes and a list of slides to jump to. Decks are edited only on the Mac.
- Deleting a writing deletes the decks built from it, on every device; the Mac names them before it does.