Importing Promethean ActivInspire flipchart files

You can open an ActivInspire flipchart file and convert it to a Notebook file. After the file is converted, you can edit objects on the pages and add new interactive activities, pages, and assessments to complete your lesson.

To import an ActivInspire flipchart file

  1. Select FileImport. The Open dialog appears.

  2. Browse to and select the .flp or .flipchart file you want to import.

  3. Click Open.

SMART Notebook software converts the flipchart and opens it as a new .notebook file.

When SMART Notebook software converts a flipchart file, Notebook converts the .flipchart objects into the best-matching equivalent objects available in Notebook. In some cases, the converted objects might behave different in Notebook than they did in ActivInspire. The items from the original flipchart file become objects that look and behave like the objects you can create in Notebook.

This table describes the degree to which conversion is supported for an ActivInspire object or feature:

ActivInspire feature

Supported

(An asterisk indicates a partially supported feature.)

Notes

Outlines

Colors

N/A

Solid lines

N/A

Dashed-dotted lines

N/A

Line widths

Lines are imported into Notebook with the original line width. When you edit a line, Notebook’s eight line thicknesses are available.

Cap style: round

N/A

Cap style: square

N/A

Cap style: flat

N/A

Join style (miter, bevel, or round)

N/A

Position controls

  • Left

  • Top

  • Width

  • Height

  • Scale X

  • Scale Y

  • Angle

N/A

Custom rotation points

Converted objects rotate around the center.

Inverted

Notebook calls this feature “Flip Up/Down.”

Reflected

Notebook calls this feature “Flip Left/Right.”

Object appearance

Layers

Although the layer information is not retained, the objects’ Z-order is maintained.

Translucency

Notebook calls this feature “Transparency.”

Visibility

Invisible objects are imported as Notebook objects with transparency set to maximum.

Object identification

Name

N/A

Keywords

*

Keywords for pages are imported as attachments. Annotation keywords are not imported.

  • Question tags

  • Assessment tags

Assessment- and question-related objects are not imported.

Annotation labels

*

A text caption for an annotated object is imported as text within a shape.

Restrictors

Movement

*

Use Notebook’s “Object Locking” feature.

Note 

Restriction to movement along a path is not supported.

Interaction mode (pen, touch, and so on)

N/A

Drag a Copy

Use Notebook’s Infinite Cloner feature.

Ink

Regular

N/A

Highlighter

N/A

Magic Ink

N/A

Ink cap styles

Options are none, arrow, and radius (round).

Shape fills

None

N/A

Solid

N/A

Hatched pattern

N/A

Gradient

*

Only linear fills are supported (vertical, horizontal, diagonals)

Radial gradient

Radial gradients are not supported and are removed from imported objects.

Images

Supported formats: BMP, PNG, and JPG

N/A

Transparent color

N/A

Selection through transparent color

N/A

Lines

Start and end cap styles

Options are none, arrow, and radius (round)

Fill

N/A

Background color and mode

N/A

Line connectors

Vertex snapping

N/A

Connected lines

The lines are imported but the behavior is not.

Grouping

Standard grouping

N/A

Interlaced Z-order grouping

Grouping is removed.

Equations

Equation editing

Double-click an equation to edit it.

Page properties

Identification (Name, keywords, description)

A page’s name is converted to the Notebook page’s title. Keywords and description are included as an attachment.

Width, height

N/A

Perforation lines

Perforation lines and grids are imported as protected annotations.

Page-turn transitions

N/A

Page backgrounds

Linear fill

N/A

Solid fill

N/A

Gradient fill

*

Only linear fills are supported (vertical, horizontal, diagonals)

Radial fill

Radial gradient page backgrounds are not supported and are removed from imported pages.

Images, image placement

*

The background image is tiled to fill the page. Other options for image placement (Best Fit, Centered, Top Left, and so on) are not yet supported. Support for Centered and Best Fit might be added to future releases.

Desktop Overlay

N/A

Page tools

Revealer

Use Notebook’s “Screen Shade” feature.

Circle/Square spotlight

N/A

Solid Circle/Square spotlight

The spotlight is converted into a shape filled with black.

Object links to pages (first, last, previous, next, or a specific page)

N/A

Page notes (from Browser window)

Notes are converted to attachments.

Text

Font selection and size

Fonts that aren’t installed are converted to Arial.

Font effects (bold, italic, underline, superscript, subscript)

N/A

Font color

N/A

Alignment

N/A

Line spacing

*

The line spacing in the converted object approximates but does not duplicate that of the original object.

Indentation

N/A

Symbols

N/A

Video

Insert video as Media

Embedded videos are converted to attachments. A video placeholder is linked to the attachment, which opens in an external player.