Philatelic Exhibits and Shows - Trials

Introduction: The BNAPS web sites presently contain examples of exhibits and presentations. During summer of 2009, we will be reviewing this aspect of our web presence. This page is being used to illustrate some possible directions to be taken. Members are encouraged to examine these and even use them for whatever purposes you wish, such as at a regional meeting.

Users are also encouraged to send feedback, to help us with our review.

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Suggested Procedures

For individual viewing, we recommend clicking on the .pdf file, which can be read either with Adobe Acrobat, or the Free Acrobat Reader. The pdf file will download much faster than the ppt option (discussed later). You can save it and read it at your leisure, or you can read it now, to see if you want to keep it.

Your Operating System (e.g. WINDOWS) will allow you to select the default method of viewing (Adobe Acrobat, or the Acrobat Viewer). Try them both and decide.

For viewing as a slide show, you can select the .ppt (Power Point) file but PLEASE read the following advice first.

At present, we recommend that the .ppt file be selected ONLY by visitors who have MS Power Point, or the FREE Power Point Viewer, in their computers. When you select the .ppt file, a menu should pop up that asks whether you wish to SAVE or OPEN the file. Our recommendation is that the file be "saved" to a familiar folder, rather than "opened". Be aware that downloading can take several minutes. If you leave this page to go to another application, the downloading will end and you will have to begin again.

When the file is saved, you might be asked if you wish to open or run it, and you certainly can do that, or you can just open your Power Point software and select the file from where you saved it. You can copy the file to a laptop that contains Power Point and use it with a digital projector at a club meeting, if you wish. It will be an enjoyable treat!

At this time, we cannot address all the variety of computer types, browsers, operating systems and viewers. Here are just two situations we will mention:

Some browsers (e.g. Internet Explorer) might be set to open the file in the browser window automatically, even if you have Power Point or the viewer installed. In that case, you might not receive the pop up menu mentioned above. After it has fully loaded to the browser, we suggest that you use the browser FILE menu to try to save the file to a known location.

MAC users, with the free Power Point Viewer for MAC, can also try it but we rely on you to determine the best approach.

This slide show trial obviously will not be useful to some visitors. We hope to be able to expand our capabilities over time and welcome all suggestions.

On With The Show!

"Modern Flower Coil Definitives", by Dr. Jim Watt.

  • ACROBAT .pdf file - loads quickly

  • Power Point .ppt file - can take several minutes to download