New Features

• Server transfer functionality for a rounded publishing process: The LECTURNITY 3.0 Publisher, in addition to the existing transfer copy to connected network drives of (maybe remote) servers already available in LECTURNITY 2.0.p4, offers a real upload functionality for all target formats and different server types (streaming server, Web server, file server, Podcast server, etc.). The server transfer, especially the server upload, automatically starts after the creation of the target document. In order to cover arbitrary application areas, the Publisher provides the network services “FTP”, “SCP”, and “SFTP” for the data transfer of the upload as well as authenticated server access.  For publishing variants in which more than one server is necessary, such as with Streaming or Podcasts, the Publisher simultaneously distributes the document to the required destinations.  The LECTURNITY publishing process now therefore consists of document creation in the selected target format and the optional transfer (upload) to remote servers.

• "One Click Publisher" - Profiles for a much more convenient publishing process:  Publishing a document in LECTURNITY is “the” step within the whole content creation process which, in comparison to the other steps (recording, editing, etc.), requires a little bit more  technical understanding on the one hand and on the other hand a little bit more  effort to customize all the different settings.  The reason is that the publishing process provides functionality for arbitrary ways of electronic distribution which is inherently technical, such as network access, streaming, or Web-based document exchange (SCORM).  Therefore, technical settings such as video resolutions, audio sample rates, bandwidth, compression, etc. are necessary and have to be configured for the publishing process. In LECTURNITY 2.0.p4 the user has to customize all these settings for every publishing process once again. There is neither the option to save the settings once set nor to switch between setting sets for different application scenarios. For users who routinely publish documents, several a day perhaps, this may be a time-consuming step.  For users who do not have the required technical understanding or for those who simply do not know what the real values for the different settings in the current IT infrastructure should be (since they are not the administrators), this might be a difficult step. LECTURNITY 3.0 therefore offers profiles for publishing.  A profile covers all the necessary settings of the publishing process, including those for server transfer (upload). That means, one document is published during each use of a profile. Once a profile is created and activated, a single click in Publisher is sufficient to create a document in the target format and to transfer it to a server. Just another three clicks are required before publishing in order to change the current profile.  The new Profile Manager in the Publisher allows the user to create new profiles and to administrate existing ones (edit, rename, delete, activate, etc.). Using the import/export function, profiles can be transferred from or to other LECTURNITY systems in order to ensure consistent, uniform, or standardised publishing in a work group or department. In addition, this is supported by the fact that profiles created with administrator rights cannot be edited by users without those rights.

Improvements

• Improved performance with freehand drawings (especially handwriting): The usage of the predefined pen tools and the Freehand tool in LECTURNTIY 2.0.p4 can result in irritating effects, which in turn can influence the display quality of sequences of connected lines (polylines) or handwriting in general. The performance of this functionality may lead to the loss of individual sampling values of a mouse movement or the movement of a pen-based input device and therewith to displayed polylines which do not exactly correspond to the round trace with the input devices. It may also lead to a slightly delayed display of polylines in comparison to the corresponding current mouse pointer position. Especially together with the Freehand tool, line segments can completely get lost. In LECTURNITY 3.0 this freehand performance is improved in comparison to LECTURNITY 2.0.p4, so that these effects are less perceivable or not perceivable at all. This covers the usage of pen-based input devices, such as touch screens (SMART Sympodium, etc.) and Tablet PCs.