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Building Impressive Presentations with impress.js

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Building Impressive Presentations with impress.js

Overview of this book

Everyone has had to present during their lifetime. We've all spent agonizing hours trying to make those PowerPoint presentations engaging. Well now there is a tool that will make those presentations look like child's play. Impress.js is a powerful library that eases the task of creating presentations with smooth animations without depending on a software tool. You are no longer limited to desktop tools as these presentations run on any supported browser anywhere on the Internet. "Building Impressive Presentations with impress.js" is a quick guide to creating professional presentations using the best aspects of CSS3. It will also guide you through several practical examples which go beyond the conventional slide-based presentations, covering each aspect of the Impress library. From simple presentations to your own personal website this handy practical guide will ensure you get the most out of Impress.JS as quickly as you can. Starting with a simple slide-based presentation we move quickly on adding in sliders, galleries and portfolios to utilize this amazing tool. 3D transitions, rotations, scaling, and transforms are also covered to give your presentations that something extra. The final step is bringing all this together to create a personal website that is viewable on all impress supported browsers. "Building Impressive Presentations with impress.js" gives you the chance to stand out from the competition and engage with audiences in a way you never have before.
Table of Contents (14 chapters)
Building Impressive Presentations with impress.js
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Working with keyboard configurations


Having control over your presentation is essential in situations where we have time constraints for completing the presentation. We can either choose to run the presentation manually or automatically as we did in the previous section. In either case, control options play a vital role. impress.js comes in with in-built key configurations for controlling the presentation. Throughout this section, we will be covering default impress keys and how to configure your own for custom functionality.

Default keyboard configurations

The main functionality of any presentation is to step forward or backward. Impress uses Tab, the Space bar, Page Down, the down arrow, and the right arrow as the keys for navigating forward. Backward navigation is done using Page Up, the left arrow, and the up arrow keys. Let's see how keyboard configurations are created inside the code.

Inside the impress core

Keyboard configurations are created inside the impress.js file but first we'll...