Apple Mac OS X Server v10.6 - Manual (Page 22)

Configuring Montage
If you want the workflow to create a podcast from movies, images, Keynote
presentations, Pages documents, PDF files, Word files, and PowerPoint files, select and
configure the Montage option of the Import stage.
Podcast Composer treats the pages of these documents as images. It combines all
pages of all documents into one slide presentation and generates a QuickTime video
of the presentation.
For example, if your input is a PDF document and a Word document, Podcast
Composer treats each page in these documents as an image. Then, Podcast Composer
assembles these images into one presentation and uses the settings you specify for
the Montage option to generate a QuickTime movie of a slide show of the images.
If a document isn’t in landscape mode, displaying a page in full for each slide results in
text that might be hard to read because the page can’t fill the entire width of the slide.
To solve this problem, Podcast Composer slices each document page in half. The upper
half image of a page appears on one slide and the bottom half image appears on the
following slide. Podcast Composer also adds a transition between the two slides to
provide a scrolling effect.
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