5.1. Adding resources to Sophie books
In this release of Sophie, to add media to a book you should use the Insert menu item. Clicking Insert reveals a number of options: Text, Image, Audio, Video, Audio Record, Book, PDF, HTML, Plain Text, RTF, Browser Frame, Script, and Script file:
If you select Image, Audio, Video, PDF, RTF, Plain Text, HTML, or Book, you'll be prompted to locate an appropriate file on your computer; when a file is selected, it will be imported into the Sophie book that's currently in focus. Insert > Audio Record allows you to record audio; to learn about that, go here. Insert > Browser Frame will insert a browser frame, which displays a frame in which a browser shows a specific URL. To learn about scripting, go here.
The types of media that Sophie currently supports are:
- Images: JPG, GIF, PNG, PDF
- Video: AVI, MOV
- Audio: WAV, MP3
- Text: PDF, plain text (.txt), RTF, HTML
Note that not all media types that will eventually be supported by Sophie are functioning in this release. With video in particular there may be some trouble; not all AVI files, for example, may play correctly as some likely use codecs that are not currently supported by Sophie. Importing may behave strangely: all images, for example, are currently imported with the same height and width, which may not be what the image actually uses; this can be changed via the frame HUD. While PDFs can be imported in this release, only the first page will be displayed if there is more than one page in the file. Importing text files currently creates a new text frame with the imported file.
When media is imported into Sophie, it is displayed in the resources palette of the resources tab in the right flap; there, it can be filtered by media type.
