# 5002- CorelSHOW  5 Runtime Player

CorelSHOW  Runtime Player makes it very easy to send a slide show presentation, created in
CorelSHOW 5, to anyone using Windows  3.1 or higher, but not using CorelDRAW .

To create a portable screen show, perform the following steps:

1.  Save the CorelSHOW  file as a CorelSHOW Player file.  To do this, click File, Save As, and
click the *.SHR file type from the List Files of Type list box .  Type a file name and choose the
directory to save to. 

Note:  A file with the extension *.SHR is  non-editable and contains 256 colors.  This file type can
only be run as a screen show.  Therefore, before saving the file as a presentation, save a copy of this
file as a CorelSHOW *.SHW file.  This will allow you to edit the show in the future.

2.  Enable the Screen Show check box.  This will allow you to choose one or all of the options
revealed, such as Render in Low Resolution and Use Device Dependent Bitmaps.

3.  Copy the file CORELPLR.EXE from the COREL50\PROGRAMS directory, as well as the
*.SHR file, to a diskette.


Screenshow Options:  
CorelSHOW 4
Saves the presentation so that it can be edited and/or played in CorelSHOW 4, and the CorelSHOW
4 Runtime Player.

Move Links
If you are saving this presentation file to any type of portable media or floppy disk, check this option
so that linked information (file) will be saved in the same directory as the presentation.

Render In Low Resolution
Enabling this option will save the screen show in a lower resolution, (approximately « the original),
resulting in a much smaller file size, and faster screen show.

Use Device Dependent Bitmaps
Enabling this option will save the screen show pages as device dependent bitmaps optimized for your
computer.  This will increase the overall speed of the screen show.  However, when this option is
enabled, it can only be run on a computer that has the same video card, video driver and resolution
settings of the computer used to build and save it.



Limitations
          Since the CorelSHOW Runtime Player creates many temp files when running, make certain
     that the computer running the show has 1 to 1.5 MBs of free disk space, per slide, to ensure
     that the *.SHR  file will run correctly.  For example, if you have a file containing 10 slides,
     the system that will be running this requires 10 to 15 MBs of free disk space on the drive
     where temp files are located.

          If the *.SHR file contains any kind of animation, you will require animation drivers on the
     runtime computer.  Run the CorelDRAW installation on the runtime computer and choose a
     Custom Installation.  Install only CorelSHOW, and enable the Animation Drivers.  This step
     is not necessary if the runtime computer is loaded with the animation program that created
     the files.

          If you wish to use sound in your show ensure that the runtime system has a sound card,
     speakers, and that any embedded sound files, such as *.WAV, can be played through
     Windows. 

          When saving a show in runtime format, some transition effects will not convert well.  Here is
     a list of transition effects that will and will not run smoothly in the *.SHR format:

Smooth Transition Effects
Cell Left
Curtain Close/Open
Wipe Up/Down/Left/Right
Zoom In/Out/Slow/Fast 

Coarse Transition Effects
Horizontal/Vertical Blind 
Cell Left Dissolve
Zoom In Dissolve
Zoom Out Dissolve


Saving Screen Show to Disk
Since a runtime file can become quite large, you may encounter difficulties when attempting to save
it to a diskette.  You may need to compress the file, using a compression utility.  Using this type of
utility will drastically decrease the size of your *.SHR file. 

Note:     Ensure that the person receiving the runtime show also has the decompression utility that
corresponds to your compressed file.


Additional Information
Refer to the online Help for further information about CorelSHOW and the CorelSHOW Runtime
Player.