Polaroid IBID User manual

The Whiteboard That
Connects To Your PC
User Guide
Ibid Software Release 2.0
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Polaroid Whiteboard User Guide
© 2000 Polaroid Corporation
Part Number 310723 Rev. 1.0
Polaroid Corporation
P.O. Box 438
Wayland, MA 01778-0438 USA
Information in this document is subject to change without notice. No part of this
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Polaroid Corp.
Trademarks
Polaroid and the Polaroid logo are trademarks of Polaroid Corporation. Ibid is a
trademark of MicroTouch Systems, Inc.
All other product names are trademarks of their respective owners.
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Table of Contents
Table of Contents i
Table of Contents
Preface
Audience . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . v
Using This Guide . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . v
Chapter 1: Installing & Configuring ibid
Box Contents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-2
System Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-2
Mounting Your Whiteboard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-3
Connecting Your Whiteboard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-4
Installing the ibid Software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-5
Starting ibid . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-5
Configuring Your Whiteboard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-6
Configuring More Than One Whiteboard . . . . . . . . . . . 1-7
Calibrating LCD Projection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-8
If you are not in Projection mode . . . . . . . . . . . 1-8
If you are already in Projection mode . . . . . . . . 1-9
Uninstalling ibid . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-10
Chapter 2: ibid Basics
How the Polaroid Whiteboard Works . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-2
Recording writing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-2
Recording erasures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-2
Sounds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-3
Multiple whiteboards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-3
Data recording formats and resolution . . . . . . . . 2-3
Using Whiteboard Icons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-4
Viewing Your Whiteboard in ibid . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-5
Understanding the ibid main window . . . . . . . . 2-6
Displaying ibid toolbars . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-7
Viewing images . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-7
Keeping ibid displayed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-9
Using ibid Annotation Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-10
Sample annotation workflow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-10
Using the pens . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-11
Using the eraser options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-12
Taking snapshots . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-12
Using More Than One Whiteboard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-13
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Chapter 3: Working with Snapshots
Understanding Snapshots . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-2
Creating Snapshots . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-2
Taking automatic snapshots . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-3
Viewing Snapshots . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-4
Snapshot captions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-5
Selecting Snapshots . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-5
Copying/Moving Snapshots . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-5
Copying/Moving snapshots within ibid . . . . . . 3-6
Exporting snapshots . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-6
Dragging and dropping snapshots . . . . . . . . . . . 3-7
Renaming Snapshots . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-7
Deleting Snapshots . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-8
Annotating Snapshots . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-8
Chapter 4: Working with ibid Files
Understanding ibid Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-2
File formats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-2
Opening a File . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-3
Opening your last file at startup . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-3
Saving a File . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-4
Saving in the same file . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-4
Saving in a different file . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-4
Creating a New File . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-5
Closing a File . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-5
Sending a File via E-mail . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-5
Setting the E-mail file size warning . . . . . . . . . . 4-8
Using IbidViewer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-8
Password Protecting a File . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-9
Publishing a File as HTML . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-10
Chapter 5: Printing Your Work
Setting Up for Printing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-2
Printing from the Whiteboard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-2
Printing from the ibid Application . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-3
Printing with custom print options . . . . . . . . . . . 5-3
Printing with current printer settings . . . . . . . . . 5-4
Previewing Your Printout . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-4
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Specifying Print Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-5
Printing colors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-5
Using headers and footers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-6
Chapter 6: Customizing ibid
Restoring Window Positions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-2
Displaying the Last File at Startup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-2
Specifying ibid Warnings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-3
Taking Automatic Snapshots . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-3
Customizing ibid Sounds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-4
Changing Pen and Eraser Widths . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-6
Changing Default Pen Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-6
Changing the default pen color . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-6
Changing the default pen time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-7
Changing ibid Colors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-8
Changing default pen and background colors . . . . . 6-8
Restoring default pen and background colors . . . . 6-10
Overriding a Screen Saver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-10
Chapter 7: Using Overlays
How Overlays Work . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-2
Creating an Overlay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-2
Adding an Overlay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-3
Adding an overlay from a file . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-3
Adding the current overlay to another snapshot . . . 7-4
Inserting a screenshot as an overlay . . . . . . . . . 7-4
Removing an Overlay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-5
Chapter 8: Using Projection with ibid
Understanding LCD Projection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-2
Configuring Projection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-2
Configuring projection for one whiteboard . . . . 8-2
Configuring projection with multiple
whiteboards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-3
Customizing Projection Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-6
Entering and Leaving Projection Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-8
Projection Mode Basics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-8
Controlling your PC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-8
Using the ibid Dashboard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-9
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Annotating in Projection Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-10
Annotating a full screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-10
Annotating a selected area of the screen . . . . . 8-11
Toggling between ibid and the current screen . . . 8-11
Using the floating annotation tools . . . . . . . . . 8-12
Using Projection with PowerPoint . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-13
Chapter 9: Using ibid with NetMeeting
NetMeeting and ibid . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-2
NetMeeting Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-2
Using ibid in a NetMeeting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-3
Sharing the ibid application in NetMeeting . . . . . 9-3
Using ibid with the NetMeeting whiteboard . . . . . 9-3
Using ibid Projection mode with NetMeeting . . . . 9-5
Chapter 10: Tips and Help
Getting Online Help . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10-2
Troubleshooting Hardware . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10-2
Whiteboard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10-2
Troubleshooting Communications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10-3
Troubleshooting ibid Software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10-4
Troubleshooting ibid and NetMeeting . . . . . . . . . . . . 10-5
Scrolling in ibid while shared . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10-6
Technical Support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10-6
Care and Maintenance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10-7
Caring for the whiteboard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10-7
Caring for the markers, stylus and eraser . . . . 10-7
Whiteboard Warranty . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10-8
What is not covered . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10-8
How to get warranty service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10-9
Limitation of damages and implied
warranties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10-10
How state law relates to the warranty . . . . . . 10-11
Index
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Preface v
Preface
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Preface
Audience
This guide assumes that you have already completed the
following:
•Installed and configured your Polaroid white-
board and ibid software
•Begun using the whiteboard and software
This guide also assumes that you are familiar with the
basic terminology and functions of the Microsoft®
Windows operating system.
Using This Guide
This guide is a reference tool for the Polaroid whiteboard
and software. The information is presented based on
operations you may perform with ibid.
For details about a specific function in the ibid software,
use the context-sensitive Help built into the application.
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For your convenience, this guide is installed in your ibid
directory in Adobe® Acrobat® PDF format. To open the
guide, double-click the file called Manual.pdf.
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If the PDF file does not open, you may need to
reinstall Adobe Acrobat Reader (for details,
see www.adobe.com).
Terminology Used in This Guide
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Terminology Used in This Guide
Term Meaning
Click At your PC, press the left mouse button once.
Press At the whiteboard, press an icon strip button.
Touch In Projection mode, touch the whiteboard’s white surface
with your finger or stylus.
Select Edit->Options Click Edit, then select Options from the dropdown menu.
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Installing & Configuring ibid 1-1
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Box Contents
~ 2
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System Requirements
~ 2
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Mounting Your Whiteboard
~ 3
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Connecting Your Whiteboard
~ 4
~ 4~ 4
~ 4
Installing the ibid Software
~ 5
~ 5~ 5
~ 5
Configuring More Than One Whiteboard
~ 7
~ 7~ 7
~ 7
Calibrating LCD Projection
~ 8
~ 8~ 8
~ 8
Uninstalling ibid
~ 10
~ 10~ 10
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Whiteboard User Guide
1-2 Installing & Configuring ibid
Box Contents
•1 Polaroid whiteboard
•1 whiteboard stylus
•4 markers
•1 whiteboard eraser
•1 AC power adapter
•1 serial port cable
•1 adapter (9-to-25-pin)
•2 fasteners for wall-mounting
•1 wall-mounting template
•1 ibid software CD
•1 Polaroid Whiteboard User Guide
Report any missing or damaged items to your dealer
immediately.
System Requirements
•IBM® compatible PC (120 MHz or higher,
200 MHz or higher for projection)
•Windows® 95, 98 or NT (4.0 or higher)
•32 MB RAM
•20 MB available disk space
•CD-ROM drive
•1 available serial (COM) port
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