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1. Yes No Number of Questions 5 e mp3 per round Text Button Option Button Colour Colour Colour Button Text Option Button Text Colour Colour IGOR comes with a quiz component that you can access by creating a page that includes the file quiz igorquiz_igimage_O_O swf When running IGOR in Widescreen mode your page should use the 2 columns 1 image layout When running in standard mode it should use the 1 fullscreen image template The quiz is located in a subfolder of IGOR called quiz Within that folder is the IGOR Quiz Editor a small application that enables you to do the following Add questions Set the front page text Set text and button colours the quiz only displays the Futura font Choose text for the final score screen the quiz shows both your correct and incorrect scores Choose whether to play the included sound effects The Quiz Editor works in a very similar way to the main Content Tool when you re finished editing simply click Save and Quit 24 of 49 Advanced the hidden maintenance screen IGOR maintenance screen To quit IGOR please tap the correct four digit code below and press QUIT or press Return to go back to the exhibit IGOR is copyright 2014 Digital Opportunities Ltd Whilst IGOR is running you can quit the program without using a keyboard by accessing the hidden maintenance screen This might be useful if you want to e2. seconds Quick fade 2 seconds Page Bounce 2 seconds Push Left to Right 2 seconds Push Right to Left 2 seconds Choose transition You can choose one of six transitions when IGOR changes slides rollover the buttons to see a small preview click a transition to select it The selected transition button will darken The default transition is none images change with no visual effect Advanced show captions with slides Click this checkbox to add captions to your slides Captions appear over a semi transparent colour bar to ensure they are visible whether the slide is very bright or very dark You can choose the colour of the bar and the font colour and size of the captions Click in the caption list next to the relevant image and type in your caption 37 of 49 Special characters are accepted amp etc but styling bold italic is not If you leave a slide caption blank the colour bar will not be shown for that caption IGOR s cunning tip deselect the checkbox to hide your captions as the content is not deleted just hidden But if you select a different set of images for your slideshow the original captions will be deleted so be careful 38 of 49 Frequently asked questions troubleshooting My folder is full of images but after select it IGOR says there are 0 images IGOR will check your selected folder and only include images of type jpg or png All other files will be igno
3. Preview if you are building for a widescreen display in the top right hand corner of the screen The IGOR Content Tool remembers which tab you pressed before you preview your installation or quit the tool and runs it in that mode So if you select the slideshow tab and then quit the content tool the IGOR program will run in slideshow mode until you launch the content tool again and change it When you preview your installation or quit the tool it saves your work Start building your own exhibit The easiest way to build your IGOR exhibit is to take the sample exhibits included with the installer and change them a page at a time e g for an interactive touchscreen first change the title and chapter headings next set the number of pages per chapter set your fonts and colours then begin adding content one page at a time When you are happy with your main content set your front page screen saver and background image Find out more on the following pages 5 of 49 Touchscreen Interactive 6 of 49 Touchscreen interactive overview The IGOR Content Tool We lco me to IGO RI Interactive Galleries On Request o Setting up IGOR is easy please choose how you want this IGOR to run then select your content Preview Wide preview t Touchscreen interactive Video Player Slideshow RSS Display Step one of four title and chapter headings 4 p prev next First pleas
4. Titles and captions Click the button below to create amend simple object records for the images in the above folder Show object editor Fonts and colours Click the button below to set the colours fonts and sizes for the object thumbs and popup panels Show advanced settings fonts and colours Image caption Touch a sample object to see the description popup panel O Digital Opps 2012 4 Show copyright at Top Image copyright of image You can use this template to display up to eight image thumbnails on screen complete with a title caption Users can touch each thumbnail to display a larger popup window showing a larger image title and a description field Choose your objects Use the Browse button to navigate to a folder of object images fitting into a size of about 500 pixels square will ensure they look good both in thumbnail and popup mode IGOR will find the first eight jpg or png files in that folder and add them to the Object Editor Editing Objects Click the button Show Object Editor to edit the titles and descriptions for your objects As with other IGOR templates you can use special characters and bold italic styling Colours and fonts Click on the button Advanced settings to set the font colour and size for the object thumbnail popup title and description field You can also set a background colour for the object thumbnail or set it to transparent and a background and stroke c
5. foto e Chalkboard Chalkboard Courier courier Font for captions Futura Size 18 Futura Futura Gill Sans Gill sans F fori A n a eomm bm B o Helvetica Helvetica Times Times EN KCN Button style Font Futura Size 22 Style Square Bg Colour e Show advanced settings Colour Stroke 8 On this screen you can choose the fonts your interactive will use to display the following The interactive s title and page titles Body text the main text on every page Caption text which appears underneath images and videos Copyright text which appears to the left or above images and videos For each case use the pulldown menus to select the font and size Press the coloured buttons to choose colours Setting button fonts and colours You can choose the fonts and colours for the navigation buttons in your interactive i e the chapter buttons on the front page and navigation buttons on every content page You can also set the background colour and border colour of the buttons set them both to the same colour if you don t want a visible border 12 of 49 You can set the style of the buttons as rounded rectangle square and transparent IGOR s cunning tip Users will not be able to see the transparent buttons duh so please ensure your front page and background images provide touchable elements in the correct positions
6. between slides 5 3 4 Transitions roll over to preview Push None Slow fade Quick fade Page Bounce left to right 5 Advanced Show captions with slides Captions This shows the captions landscape mode In portrait mode the ti transparent band of colour caption is rotated and shown at the right of the screen Cilek Gare te Hos colour b jpg Now set your caption font Font Size Colour A A c igPort jpg Caption number 3 Futura 1 26 IGOR allows you to define and show a looping slideshow of images with optional captions Choose folder of images Click the browse button to select the folder containing the images for your slideshow IGOR will find all the images in that folder but not subfolders and then show them in a permanent loop during the slideshow IGOR s extremely cunning tip you can keep the images and video IGOR uses anywhere on your computer but IGOR recommends storing it in a subfolder of your IGOR folder IGOR notices when images and videos are stored within the IGOR folder and records their location differently This means that you can copy the whole IGOR installation to another computer just by copying the IGOR folder and its contents It will then run straight away without having to tell IGOR where the files are 35 of 49 IGOR s other cunning tip IGOR will scale the images to full scre
7. in your screensaver folder In this advanced panel you can specify the text the font size and colour Note live text only appears over images in the screensaver not video Setting the front page image Your interactive s front page is the first screen the user will see after touching the screen during the screensaver or after touching the start again button on other pages This is sometimes known as the confents screen or home screen This should be an eye catching screen with space for a title either part of the image or added by IGOR and for the chapter buttons The image should be 1024 by 768 pixels Click the browse button and select the image you wish to use for this screen This should be a jpg or PNG At it simplest this can just be a blank colour If the field is blank or the image is missing IGOR will draw a white background by default IGOR s cunning tip the chapter buttons are laid out differently depending on whether there are one two three or four Try changing the amount of chapters defined on the previous page and previewing your interactive to see where they are placed 10 of 49 Advanced setting adding live text to the front page Press this button to reveal some advanced options You can add text to your front page image this feature is useful if you regularly need to change content on the front page and don t want to have to remake the image again and again In this advanced
8. take over This is a special mode in which the video takes over the entire screen and auto plays The page title and normal page background are not visible the navigation buttons appear at the bottom of the page over the video Object viewer Select a folder of up to eight images and IGOR will display them as object thumbnails which can be touched to reveal a popup containing further information You can add titles and descriptions to each object and choose fonts sizes and colours for the thumbnail and popup 27 of 49 Frequently Asked Questions Troubleshooting can t see the image that I have specified in the content tool Make sure that the image hasn t been moved or renamed IGOR will display an error report if this has happened can t select the image want IGOR will only accept jpg and png files Make sure your image is in this format My video won t play IGOR will only accept videos mov m4v flv that have been created using the codec H 264 If you are not sure please check with whoever create the video file The front screen background image is white This happens if IGOR can t find the images you specified for the front screen and background image Make sure that the images haven t been moved or renamed IGOR will display an error report if this has happened using the Image Explorer template and it is behaving weirdly Make sure that the image you have specified is larger than 800 b
9. Advanced navigation bar settings Touch this button to show the advanced navigation bar settings panel which contains the following options Use images for buttons place them anywhere You can override the standard button styles here by providing an image for any or all of the following The chapter buttons on the home page The Start Again Previous and Next buttons in the navigation bar This mode gives you complete flexibility over the size and style of your buttons Unlike other images in IGOR these will not be scaled to fit and so must be the correct size in pixels when used There are some sample images in the guided tour subfolder buttons Button text e g GO NEXT must be added to the image as it will not be added by IGOR using this mode You can place your buttons anywhere on the front screen only if you name your image button files like this buttonl igimage 200 300 jpg or png Where 200 is the location of the image in pixels from the left side of the screen and 300 is the location of the image in pixels from the top of the screen 13 of 49 Navigation Context Here you can toggle the visibility of the page x of y navigation display and set font size and colour options Loop around pages You can choose to have wrap around page navigation i e to press the next button on page 8 of 8 and navigate back to page 1 of 8 If this is not set the previous button
10. IGOR Interactive Galleries On Request User Manual version 1 8 from Digital Opportunities THE DIGITAL EXHIBITION EXPERTS Welcome to IGOR Some things to remember Setting up IGOR Start building your own exhibit Touchscreen Interactive Touchscreen interactive overview Step one title and chapter headings Step two screensaver front page and general background Step three font colour and button settings Step four page layout and content Advanced Popups and hotspots Advanced the Object Viewer template Advanced the Quiz Advanced the hidden maintenance screen List of all layout templates Frequently Asked Questions Troubleshooting Video player Video player overview Frequently asked questions troubleshooting Slideshow Slideshow overview Frequently asked questions troubleshooting RSS Viewer RSS Viewer overview Frequently asked questions troubleshooting Installing IGOR on gallery Deploying IGOR running it on gallery System requirements licensing and other notices 2 of 49 Contents 12 15 19 21 24 25 26 28 29 30 33 34 35 39 40 41 44 45 46 48 Welcome to IGOR IGOR Interactive Galleries On Request gives you four types of digital exhibit to create for your on gallery visitors interactive touchscreen video player slideshow and RSS news reader IGOR comes in two parts the main IGOR program which is what visitors see on gallery in your public space a
11. R Popup Editor IGOR Popup Editor e EH Add Delete 4 d Prev Next This is popup 1 of 7 Popup title Touch the screen to begin Popup styles TS 1 Set the font size and colour image or video for your popup text interactive tour screensaver ss1 jpg Browse Popup title Futura 11 24 Popup caption Popup caption A sample image from the default screensaver set Futura 20 gt ee Popup description Popup description Futura 20 You should choose a set of full screen images as your screensaver sometimes known as an attractor or timeout sequence eye catching and related to the main content Full screen images are 1024 by 768 pixels q ey 9 8 y 2 Set the style background colour and stroke colour of the popup To set up your screensaver browse to the folder containing the images and click okay You can then use the pulldown menu to choose how long the interactive will sit idle until the screensaver begins Popup style Rounded Rectang Background Stroke This popup uses the Rounded Rectangle style And the text was taken from the IGOR manual But you colour colour know that because you ve already read it Yes Copy styles from previous popup You can add hotspots to the 2 Columns 1 image layout which open popup panels containing images text and video Popups Popups are defined using the Popup Editor shown abo
12. allery computer you then need to set the IGOR program to automatically run when the computer starts up On Windows XP Vista Windows 7 or 8 e Right click on the IGOR program and select Create Shortcut e You must then drag the shortcut to the Startup Items folder on your computer You can find the folder here C Documents and Settings Username Start Menu Programs Startup e Where Username is the name you use to log into the computer On a Macintosh computer running OS X 10 5 or greater Drag the IGOR program to the Dock the collection of icons at the bottom of the screen Right click or control click on the Icon and select Options gt Open at Login Restart your computer and IGOR should now run automatically If you are running the widescreen version of the IGOR repeat the above steps with the IGORWidescreen program That s it all done 46 of 49 For additional installations of IGOR simply make another copy of the IGOR folder and develop your content within it You may have as many installations on gallery as you have licences 47 of 49 System requirements licensing and other notices IGOR runs on Apple computers running Macintosh OS 10 5 and greater and on computers running Windows XP Vista 7 and 8 IGOR is created by Digital Opportunities Ltd lt www digitalopps co uk gt You can find out more about IGOR here lt www igor uk com gt You can contact us at the following email ian digital
13. an error report if this has happened My background image looks pixellated and uncear IGOR runs at 1024 by 768 pixels Make sure your slide images are at least this size If they are not IGOR will scale them up which may result in a loss of clarity My background video won t play IGOR will only play videos that have been created using the codec H 264 If you are not sure please check with whoever create the video file IGOR didn t save my work after quit IGOR automatically saves your work when you preview your work by clicking on the IGOR icon in the top right hand corner of the Content Tool or when you quit the tool To ensure IGOR saves when quitting please use the Quit IGOR Content Tool menu item 44 of 49 Installing IGOR on gallery 45 of 49 Deploying IGOR running it on gallery When you are happy with your IGOR installation you should move or copy your IGOR folder that is the folder containing the IGOR program Content Tool and your content to the computer that will run on gallery If this computer is different to the one on which you developed your content please ensure that all your image and video files are located within the IGOR folder or a subfolder This ensures that IGOR will find them when the folder is moved or copied You can copy your IGOR folder as you would copy any file or folder on your computer Getting IGOR to auto start With your IGOR installation successfully copied to your on g
14. does not appear on the first page of a chapter and the next button does not appear on the last Slide between pages Select this option to create a sliding visual effect between pages making each chapter appear to be one long page IGOR s frank but still cunning tip if you re not sure whether to change these settings don t 14 of 49 Step four page layout and content 000 The IGOR Content Tool We lco me to IGO R interactive Galleries Request EON Setting up IGOR is easy please choose how you want this IGOR to run then select your content Preview Wide preview Touchscreen interactive Video Player RSS Display Step four of four page layout and content chapter 1 of 4 page 1 of 8 Popup Editor Add hotspots m sent Use layout 2 Columns 1 image B See layout click and hold Page title basic text and image Column one text 123 words Interactives in IGOR can contain up to four chapters each of up to eight pages That s 32 pages in total maths fans Column two text 21 words The second column can be useful for teaser information Like this Next pages portrait images embeddina a video more interaction Ooh Image or swf interactive_tour images igor tooll png Browse Allow zoom Image caption Igor configured to play a video file from the local computer Touch t
15. e enter the title of your interactive Building interactives using IGOR Don t show on front screen Q Don t show the cursor Next your interactive can contain up to four chapters each containing up to eight pages Number of chapters 4 Use the next and previous buttons above to move through the steps required to complete Chapter one title Basic layout options your book Number of pages 8 Chapter two title Popups and other advanced content options Number of pages 7 Chapter three title Advanced tips and tricks Number of pages 6 Chapter four title Getting your interactive on gallery Number of pages 5 Unlike the other IGOR installations Touchscreen Interactive has more than one setup screen use the previous and next buttons at the top right of the main content panel to move between them On the first screen you specify the title of your interactive the number of chapters their titles and how many pages they contain On the next screen you specify the images you want for your screensaver and how long the interactive will wait for it to begin the image for your home page and a background image for the content pages in each chapter On the third screen you can set the fonts and button styles for your interactive The remaining screens exactly mirror the pages in your interactive here you can choose a layout template add text images and movies IGOR s friendly tip Y
16. e title when the interactive launches This is particularly useful if you want the title to appear in a special font and hence you are creating it as part of your home page image IGOR s other cunning tip Click the Don t show the cursor checkbox to hide the cursor when the touchscreen interactive runs Number of chapters Your interactive can have up to four chapters each with up to eight pages You can have any combination of content types on those pages See step four below for more information on this 8 of 49 Step two screensaver front page and general background 000 The IGOR Content Tool Welcome to IGOR Setting up IGOR is easy please choose how you want this IGOR to run then select your content Preview Wide preview et Touchscreen interactive Video Player Slideshow RSS Display 4 Step two of four screensaver front page and general background wat Your interactive s screensaver is a folder of images that will be shown in a looping slideshow until a user touches the scr r of slideshow images jpg and png files only please active tour screensaver 4 images Browse Show advanced settings add live text to screensaver Time until screensaver appears 60 seconds Your interactive s front page is the first screen the user will see after touching the screen during the screensaver OR after touchin
17. en so for best performance try making your images the same aspect ratio that IGOR uses which is A 3 IGOR runs at 1024 by 768 pixels Slide orientation Click the pulldown menu fo set the orientation of the slideshow landscape which is the default setting or portrait IGOR s cunning tip This setting is only used if you add captions to your slideshow D ID 5 o v C a LJ oM o v C o z C E um Q a al c e os pa ong o E 9 a v e me HD ond e This shows the captions in landscape mode The caption is shown at the bottom of the screen In landscape orientation the captions are displayed along the bottom edge of the picture In portrait orientation the captions are rotated counter clockwise by 90 degrees and displayed along the right edge of the picture This means that you can rotate your display hardware monitor TV etc and show portrait slides with captions at the bottom of the image 36 of 49 Delay between slides Click the pulldown menu fo set the delay in seconds between each slide By default this is 5 seconds IGOR s cunning and important tip For your slideshow to play properly please ensure that the delay between slides is longer than the time taken for each transition No transition 1 second Slow fade
18. ent Tool We to IGO R interactive Galleries On Request e Setting IGOR is easy please choose how you want this IGOR to then select your content fi Preview Wide preview etj Touchscreen interactive Video Player Slideshow RSS Display How to use IGOR IGOR comes in two parts the main IGOR program which is what visitors see in gallery and this content tool which determines how IGOR will run and what content it will show How to use this content tool Click on one of the tabs above to choose how you want this installation of IGOR to run You can then define some simple parameters video files text for your interactive etc to set up your IGOR installation When you quit this tool you can launch the main IGOR program It will run based on which tab was last selected So if the Video Player tab was foremost IGOR will run as a video player IGOR automatically loads and saves your settings whenever you launch or quit this tool so you don t need to worry about that When editing your IGOR installation click on the icon in the top right hand corner to preview it Time to get cracking building that incredibly cheap IGOR installation hurrah IGOR and the team at Digital Opportunities 2012 To preview an installation touchscreen interactive video slideshow or rss viewer click on one of the tabs and then click on Preview for a standard 4 3 display or Wide
19. g copy over some files from a USB key to an in gallery exhibit without having to plug in a keyboard To access the hidden screen from the front page of your touchscreen interactive Touch the top left top right bottom left and bottom right corners A box will appear in the top middle of the screen Touch it The maintenance screen appears From here you can type in the quit code 5187 followed by the QUIT button to exit the program or touch the RETURN button to close the maintenance screen After five wrong attempts at the quit code the maintenance screen will auto hide 25 of 49 List of all layout templates IGOR provides eight layout templates for your interactive Two columns one image SSS EM rex Sa SS SS Se Se Qu ee IGOR will scale any image you provide to fit into the space provided With portrait images it will move the Column one Hoo caption and column two text down as appropriate So you could use this as a one column one image template if you wished IGOR will scale any video you provide to fit into the Column one Video controls d d 2355555 5525225522 2522522522225 space provi e a Navigation buttons start again next previous Page title will wrap if necessary A simple layout for two co
20. g the start again button on other pages Igor will automatically add links to your chapter s nt page image ctive_tour images frontpage_2 jpg Browse Show advanced settings add live text to front Cy Your interactive s background image forms the graphic background to all content pages Ideally this should include areas for a title body text images and navigation at the bottom of the screen 5 Browse Setting the screensaver You should choose a set of full screen images and or video as your screensaver sometimes known as an attractor or timeout sequence eye catching and related to the main content Full screen images video should be 1024 by 768 pixels or 1376 by 774 in Widescreen To set up your screensaver browse to the folder containing the images video and click okay You can then use the pulldown menu to choose how long the interactive will sit idle until the screensaver begins IGOR s cunning tip When creating screensaver images don t make them too visually busy strong simple images are best It is also useful to add some text such as Touch the screen to begin see below 9 of 49 Advanced setting adding live text to the screensaver Press this button to reveal some advanced options You can add text to your screensaver this feature is useful if you want to display a message for visitors but don t want to have to manually add it to all the images
21. he image to enlarge it Image copyright Digital Opps 2012 o Show copyright at Top p of image You can now add the content for each of your pages The content tool provides one page for each page in the interactive Choose layout IGOR provides eight layout templates for your interactive Use this pulldown menu to select one You can also press and hold the preview button to see an outline illustration of each layout IGOR s cunning tip When you change layouts certain fields will appear and disappear e g if you change from a image layout to a video layout the image fields will disappear Don t worry IGOR hasn t deleted any content just hidden it If you revert back to a previous layout your content will still be there 15 of 49 Adding text to your pages Click into these fields to add your text They will appear on screen as shown in the templates e g title will appear at the top column one on the left hand side etc You can use bold and italic styling in any text field You can also use the following special characters j 8 0 8 Ap T 5 8 7 A A A A A A A C E t i 0 6 6 0 0 0 U 0 0 4 4 4 4 4 4 2 6 6 6 i 1 1 1 6 6 6 6 6 2 U U U U IGOR s don t say l didn t warn you tip Because of the way Windows and Apple computers handle special characters if you are using special characters we recommend you run the content tool on the sa
22. image at a larger size within the object popup You can force IGOR to display a movie in the object popup instead of an image like this 1 Save your movie into your object image folder named e g mymovie1 mov 2 Save a image representing the movie into your object image folder named as per your movie file but with the suffix _frame jpg e g in this instance mymoviel frame pg For instance you might take a single frame of the movie and add a movie icon in the corner to differentiate it from the rest of the object images 3 IGOR will display the frame image as an object thumbnail but show the actual movie file when users open the object popup You can see an example of this in the guided tour that comes with the IGOR software You can use this technique to build up a browsable media library within IGOR e g to show different kinds of assets relating to a particular story place object etc 23 of 49 Advanced the Quiz AAA IGOR Quiz Editor GOR Quiz Editor Display settings Your quiz title The amazingly incredible IGOR Quiz Your quiz description How much have you learnt about IGOR Find out in here including some tips on building your own quiz Your results page title The scores Your name for won points Your name for lost points Note To alter the quiz background image and points misses sound effects replace these files quiz_bg jpg right mp3 wrong mp3 and Use sound effects
23. ive Infrared Receiver to send a keypress so that e g a different video is played if someone walks past an object enters a room etc 32 of 49 Frequently asked questions troubleshooting can t select the video want IGOR will only accept video files in these formats mov m4v flv Make sure your video is in this format My video won t play IGOR will only play videos that have been created using the codec H 264 If you are not sure please check with whoever create the video file can t see the video that have specified in the content tool Make sure that the video hasn t been moved or renamed IGOR will display an error report if this has happened IGOR didn t save my work after quit IGOR automatically saves your work when you preview your work by clicking on the IGOR icon in the top right hand corner of the Content Tool or when you quit the tool To ensure IGOR saves when quitting please use the Quit IGOR Content Tool menu item Slideshow 34 of 49 Slideshow overview 00 The IGOR Content Tool Welcome to IGOR n 2 Wem Setting up IGOR is easy please choose how you want this IGOR to run then select your content Preview Wide preview A Touchscreen interactive Video Player Slideshow RSS Display Folder of images for slideshow jpg and png files only please slideshow demoABC 3 images Browse Display orientation Landscape e9 Delay
24. k the browse button to find the video file you wish IGOR to play This should be different to to main file e g a signed version of the same If you want this video to play by default then click on the button just underneath marked Primary Video The video file should be one of these formats mov m4v flv and should be compressed with the H 264 codec which is standard for most videos these days IGOR s cunning tip when you create your movie save it optimised for streaming as this will make it load faster into IGOR 31 of 49 Video player Play this video if checkbox You can set IGOR to play one of the optional videos if the user presses a certain key This is useful if your gallery needs to show other videos alongside the primary one e g subtitled or signed You can use the pulldown menu to choose whether IGOR plays the other video straight away by stopping the current video and starting the new one or once the current video has finished How you might use this feature on gallery Imagine you have have buttons real ones installed by your monitor to allow users to change which video is shown Check with your hardware contractor they should be able to configure them to send a particular keypress Then make sure that IGOR is set up to look for that keypress choose a letter from the pulldown menu IGOR s cunning but more advanced tip you can also get your hardware contractor to configure devices such as PIR Pass
25. lay between news items 5 Transitions roll over to preview Title font settings Name Futura B Size 48 np coo Description text font settings 27 A 1 Mn 3 Slow Fade Push right to left Push left to right RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication and is an easy way to distribute content through a kind of xml file Choose an online feed or local file IGOR can read feeds from the internet in the format RSS 2 0 you can paste URL of the feed into this box IGOR can also read a RSS 2 0 file from your local computer which is handy if you don t have an internet connection click the browse button to find the file you wish IGOR to read There is a sample file in the RSS folder of your IGOR installation If you specify an online feed the URL must begin with http and not feed IGOR simply takes the lt title gt and lt description gt fields from the RSS feed so make sure your RSS has those anything else will be ignored 41 of 49 Choose an image or video to play behind the news items Click the browse button to find the image or video file you wish IGOR to display behind the news items in your RSS feed The video file should be one of these formats mov m4v flv and should be compressed with the H 264 codec The video will loop permanently whilst IGOR is running The image or video should be 1024 by 768 pixe
26. loaded your IGOR installer double click the file then follow the on screen instructions On Windows IGOR is installed as a folder and does not appear in your Start Menu We recommend that you install the IGOR folder to your desktop or my documents folder Following installation please navigate to the location you installed IGOR This will be a folder named IGOR which contains the following here shown on a Macintosh E IGOR a Lojls es a Q IGORWidescreen IGOR IGOR Content Tool interactive_tour movies slideshow f om firstrun txt SkinOverPlaySeekSt Externals igorconfig xml op igor swf 11 items 22 1 MB available emm o IGOR IGORWidescreen are the standard and widescreen versions of the main program which run on gallery and be seen by the public You can run either version on the same content IGOR Content Tool is used to add edit and preview your content IGOR manual pdf a copy of this document Folders interactive tour movies slideshow rss are where the sample content is stored You can add your own folders if you wish IGOR config xml SkinOverPlaySeekStop IGOR swf are required by the program please do not delete them Folder Externals is required by the program please do not delete 4 of 49 To start using IGOR please double click the IGOR Content Tool to launch it You will see the front page which looks like this The IGOR Cont
27. ls IGOR s cunning and slightly arty tip If you wish to use a video as your background try using once that only changes subtly otherwise it may be too hard for users to read your content Delay between news items Click the pulldown menu to set the delay in seconds between each news item By default this is 10 seconds Set fonts and colours You can set the font colour and size of your news items title and description text by using these pulldown menus and colour pickers A2 of 49 Choose transition You can choose one of four transitions when IGOR changes news items rollover the buttons to see a small preview click a transition to select it The selected transition button will darken The default transition is none images change with no visual effect A3 of 49 Frequently asked questions troubleshooting can t see my RSS feed Make sure that the feed begins with http and not feed Make sure that each entry in the feed contains a lt title gt and lt description gt element can t select the background image want IGOR will only accept jpg and png files Make sure your image is in this format can t select the background video want IGOR will only accept video files in these formats mov m4v flv Make sure your video is in this format can t see the background image that I specified in the content tool Make sure that the image hasn t been moved or renamed IGOR will display
28. lumns of text Column two Column one nn Full size image 3 IGOR will scale any image you provide to fit into the space between the title and nav bar Image Co rrr m m m m m m m m rr rr rd TTC Navigation buttons start again next previous 26 of 49 Prop HH FF HHH PH FHSS SS SS SP SSS rt FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF rr ar Fr ar rr ar rr aS rr er rr rrr large draggable image Cor rrr 35 a a ACA A A AAA E A A AAA AA AA AAA AE E AA AAA Navigation buttons start again next previous Video fills the entire screen and plays automatically Navigation buttons start again next previous Page title will wrap if necessary 1 l i 1 1 1 1 object thumbnail objectthumbnail objectthumbnail object thumbnail 1 L 1 I 1 1 L 1 1 object thumbnail object thumbnail object thumbnail 1 1 I object thumbnail 1 Navigation buttons start again next previous Full size video IGOR will scale any video you provide to fit into the space between the title and nav bar Image Explorer Specify an image larger than 800 pixels wide and 600 pixels high and IGOR automatically creates a scrollable image complete with thumbnail and a visual reference for where you are on the image Video
29. me platform you will run the IGOR app Otherwise some characters may not appear correctly IGOR s that explains it then tip Depending on which layout you choose you may see options for selecting an image file or a video file The illustration above shows options for an image file but a video file is treated in much the same way Image caption and copyright Click on the browse field to choose an image to display on this page of your interactive It should be in jpg or png format You can also option click to choose a swf file but please be aware that we can not guarantee that these will all work as we don t know how they were programmed If you select the Allow zoom option users will be able to touch the image and view a zoomed version on screen You can add a caption for your image or leave the field blank 16 of 49 You can also add copyright credit notice by the image use the pulldown menu to choose where to place it Video caption and copyright Click on the browse field to choose an video to display on this page of your interactive The video file should be one of these formats mov m4v flv and should be compressed with the H 264 codec which is standard for most videos these days You can add a caption for your video or leave the field blank You can also add a copyright credit notice by the video use the pulldown menu to choose where to place it Some more advanced tricks use with caution Tw
30. nd the Content Tool which determines in what mode IGOR will run and what content it will show Developing digital exhibits with IGOR is easy add your content to the IGOR Content Tool and preview your final IGOR exhibit or installation as you work When finished copy your IGOR installation to the required computer and then set the IGOR program to launch when the computer starts Some things to remember e You can preview your IGOR installation at any time by clicking on the Preview or Wide Preview buttons in the top right hand corner of the Content Tool When you have finished previewing you must press Alt F4 on Windows or command Q on Macintosh to quit the preview e IGOR can display your content in Standard 4 3 display ratio and Widescreen 16 9 display ratio Click the correct icon at the top of the content Tool to see a preview each display ratio e IGOR saves when you quit or when you preview your installation Note in Windows you must use the Quit menu command rather than pressing Alt FA for this to work Your IGOR folder comes with some subfolders containing sample content You put your own content in these folders or make new ones of your own In fact you can store your images and videos anywhere on your computer but if you keep everything within the IGOR folder you can move yovr installation to a different computer just by copying that folder 3 of 49 Setting up IGOR When you have down
31. o columns one image template When using the two columns one image layout you can place an image anywhere on the screen if you name your image file like this something_igimage_200_300 jpg or png Where 200 is the location of the image in pixels from the left side of the screen and 300 is the location of the image in pixels from the top of the screen By default images appear over the text on a page so they can zoom over it You can override this by naming your image file like this something_igimage_bg_0O_0 jpg or png In this example the image would be placed at the top left hand corner of the screen and appear below all the text In this way you can create custom background images for each page 17 of 49 Finally you can force the second column of text which normally sits underneath the image and image caption to the top of the page by adding IGOR to the beginning of the text And IGOR removes the IGOR tag when running so you won t see it in the text Video takeover template When using the Video Takeover template you can force IGOR to return to the home page after the video is complete if you name your video file like this something_igmovie_gohome mp4 You might want to use this if you had set up IGOR as a video jukebox one video per chapter or if you have a full screen video playing as the last page in the chapter 18 of 49 Advanced Popups and hotspots IGO
32. olour for the object popup Caption and copyright You can also add a caption at the bottom of the screen e g Touch an object to find out more and a copyright credit string but note that this is a single credit for all of the objects Super large image exploration When users touch an object image an object popup appears with a larger version of the image and the description text you entered into the Object Editor If you place a very large image in a subfolder of your object folder and name it the same as one of your object thumbnail images IGOR will find it and automatically display a magnification button in the relevant object popup which users can touch to scroll and explore a fullscreen version of the image 1 Your very large image must be wider than 1024 pixels and taller than 768 pixels 2 Your very large image must be named exactly the same as your thumbnail image 3 Your very large image much be placed in a folder named large inside your object folder e g your objects might live here igor touchscreen objects an_image jpg So your very large image must here igor touchscreen objects large an_image jpg You can repeat this for every object image you have defined 22 of 49 Showing different media in the Object Viewer template The Content Tool looks in the folder where you ve placed your object images and finds the first eight jpg or png files When a user touches one of these objects IGOR displays the object
33. opps co uk Licensing IGOR is available to buy as a single license or in the following packages Single licences one for each installation you have visible to the public Value five on gallery licenses and two development licenses Development copies may not be seen by the public All licenses are eternal When you have finished with an IGOR installation in one gallery you can re purpose it and put it in another But you can only have as many IGOR installations in gallery as you have licenses If you would like to talk to us about an institutional site license to cover an entire museum please contact us on ian digitalopps co uk IGOR Interactive Galleries On Request and the IGOR Content Tool Copyright 2015 Digital Opportunities Ltd All rights reserved 48 of 49 Digital Opportunities THE DIGITAL EXHIBITION EXPERTS www digitalopps co uk 49 of 49
34. ou will see a number of buttons marked advanced These provide additional features that you don t need to set up if you don t want to If in doubt leave them Step one title and chapter headings The IGOR Content Tool Welcome to IGOR Interactive Galleries On Request lt Setting up IGOR is easy please choose how you want this IGOR to run then select your content n Preview Wide preview laf Touchscreen interactive Video Player Slideshow RSS Display Step one of four title and chapter headings eine First please enter the title of your interactive Building interactives using IGOR _ Don t show on front screen Don t show the cursor Next your interactive can contain up to four chapters each containing up to eight pages Number of chapters 4 Tip Use the next and previous buttons above to move through the steps required to complete Basic layout options your book Chapter one title Number of pages 8 Chapter two title Popups and other advanced content options Number of pages 7 Chapter three title Advanced tips and tricks Number of pages 6 Chapter four title Getting your interactive on gallery Number of pages 5 eo Interactive name title This is the name of your interactive and appears on the front screen when the interactive launches IGOR s cunning tip You can click the don t show on front screen button to hide th
35. panel you can specify the text the font size and colour You can also specify the font size and colour of the interactive s title if you choose to show it as live text see page 11 Setting the background image Your interactive s background image forms the graphic background fo all content pages Ideally this should include areas for a title body text images and navigation at the bottom of the screen The image should be 1024 by 768 pixels At it simplest this can just be a blank colour If the field is blank or the image is missing IGOR will draw a white background by default Click the browse button and select the image This should be a jpg or PNG IGOR s cunning tip there are some sample background images in the interactive tour images subfolder 11 of 49 Step three font colour and button settings 000 The IGOR Content Tool Welcome to IGORI Setting up IGOR is easy please choose how you want this IGOR to run then select your content Preview Wide preview Touchscreen interactive Video Player Slideshow d RSS Display Step three of four font colour and button settings 2 select the fonts and colours for your interactive and the button style for main navigation Font for page titles Futura Size 36 Colour o Adobe Serif Adobe Serif Arial Font for body text F Si 22 Colour E p
36. red can t see the images that have specified in the content tool Make sure that the folder hasn t been moved or renamed or that the images within haven t been moved or renamed IGOR will display an error report if this has happened My images look pixellated and unclear IGOR runs at 1024 by 768 pixels Make sure your slide images are at least this size If they are not IGOR will scale them up which may result in a loss of clarity IGOR didn t save my work after quit IGOR automatically saves your work when you preview your work by clicking on the IGOR icon in the top right hand corner of the Content Tool or when you quit the tool To ensure IGOR saves when quitting please use the Quit IGOR Content Tool menu item 39 of 49 RSS Viewer AO of 49 RSS Viewer overview OOO The IGOR Content Tool Welcome to IGOR e Setting up IGOR is easy please choose how you want this IGOR to run then select your content Preview Wide preview a Touchscreen interactive Slideshow RSS Display Paste in the URL of your RSS feed OR browse for an XML file on your computer The URL must start with http The RSS feed must contain title and description elements rss rss mini xml Browse Q Select a background image video to appear behind all the RSS news items on screen rss igor rss mov Browse De
37. rowse Primary Video Play this video once if the user presses d and play it straight away IGOR allows you to present full screen videos and swap between three versions e g subtitled and signed if a user presses a pre defined key Choose main video file Click the browse button to find the video file you wish IGOR to play This should be your main video By default IGOR will set the button marked Primary Video you can always change this by setting another video as primary but it makes sense to define this one The video file should be one of these formats mov m4v and should be compressed with the H 264 codec which is standard for most videos these days IGOR s cunning tip when you create your movie save it optimised for streaming as this will make it load faster into IGOR 30 of 49 Optional second video file Click the browse button to find the video file you wish IGOR to play This should be different to to main file e g a subtitled version of the same If you want this video to play by default then click on the button just underneath marked Primary Video The video file should be one of these formats mov m4v flv and should be compressed with the H 264 codec which is standard for most videos these days IGOR s cunning tip when you create your movie save it optimised for streaming as this will make it load faster into IGOR Optional third video file Clic
38. und and resized each one can be linked to a popup via a list of popup titles You can also choose to delete popups from here Note on Windows text using the Futura font at size 22 may not display properly in the hotspot editor This will be addressed in a future release of IGOR Standard vs Widescreen IGOR The first time you launch the Hotspot Editor from the Add Hotspots button on the Content Tool it will ask you to choose between displaying in Standard 4 3 or Widescreen 16 9 display ratio It is important to make the right choice as e g hotspots on the far right hand side of a 16 9 display may not be visible on a 4 3 display You can change this at a later date this by option clicking the Add Hotspots button Outside of the Tool to run IGOR in 4 3 ratio launch the IGOR program to run it in 16 9 ratio launch the GORWidescreen program 20 of 49 Advanced the Object Viewer template The IGOR Content Tool We lco me to G O R Interactive Galleries On Request e Setting up IGOR is easy please choose how you want this IGOR to run then select your content t Touchscreen interactive Video Player Slideshow RSS Display 4 b prev next Step four of four your book s page layout and content chapter 2 of 4 page 3 of 5 Use layout Object Viewer Preview click and hold Page title A sample object page Folder of up to eight object images interactive tour objects1 69 Browse
39. ve use it to create edit and delete popups For each popup you can set text fonts sizes and colours and the background and stroke colours of the main popup panel Note The Popup Editor and Add Hotspots buttons are only available from any page using the 2 Columns 1 image layout You have to close the popup editor before you can access the hotspot editor and vice versa 19 of 49 ONO The IGOR Hotspot Editor A TOUR OF Using hotspots on the page IGOR Digital Opp 2012 You can see a number of images on the right hand side they are all contained in a single image collage_hot png We have then used the Popup Editor to create five popups and the Hotspot Editor to add links over each part of the image The result an interactive page with almost no effort And don t forget there are ways to position the image in other places on the page even filling it so you can have a fully interactive page if you so wish See chapter three for more on this Welcome to the hotspot editor r or Add or remove hotspots e a utton to create hotspots Contols e w you to m esi r dele rs move resize or delete so choose which popup to link to Hotspots Once you have created at least one popup you can select the Add Hotspots button on the main Content Tool to view a preview of your page onto which you can add hotspot links to the popups you just created Hotspots can be created dragged aro
40. y 600 pixels I have added a tall image to the page and now my second column of text has vanished IGOR places the image caption underneath the image and the second column of text underneath that If the image is too tall it will push the second column of text off the bottom of the screen Either scale your image so that it takes up less space on screen or move the content to the other column or the next page IGOR didn t save my work after quit IGOR automatically saves your work when you preview your work by clicking on the IGOR icon in the top right hand corner of the Content Tool or when you quit the tool To ensure IGOR saves when quitting please use the Quit IGOR Content Tool menu item 28 of 49 Video player 29 of 49 Video player overview Q T The IGOR Content Tool Welcome to on tenes Setting up IGOR is easy please choose how you want this IGOR to run then select your content Preview Wide preview t Touchscreen interactive Video Player Slideshow RSS Display Please choose your main video file movies igor intro mov Browse Primary Video Please choose an optional second video e g with subtitles movies igormovie2 mp4 Browse 5 Primary Video Play this video once if the user presses f and play it straight away o Please choose an optional third video e g with signing movies igormovie3 mov B
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