Display Variants can be created to generate various Preview Window Display variations of a Composition. For example, you can create multiple different Display Variants for screen sizes, layouts, resolutions, languages and more.
Selecting Created Display Variants
Display Variants are created and managed in the Data Interface and Control Panel within the Display Variants Tab (1). Created Display Variants can be previewed in the Output Manager by selecting from the "Display variant" dropdown menu above the preview window (2).
Display Variants Feature
Display Variants Tab
Display Variants tab in Data Interface and Control Panel
Formerly known as the Globals tab, the Display Variants tab inside of the Data Interface and Control panel is for creating and managing output display variants.
Create display variants at the top (A). Created Display Variants are listed on the left (B). The various settings of each Display Variant are listed on the right (C).
Anatomy of the Display Variants tab
You can create your Display Variants from this portion of the panel.
A list of all created Display Variants that can be drag and drop reordered. Selecting each display variant will preview the results in the output window.
Name and resolution
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Name
Define the name of your created Display Variant -
Description
Set the optional description of your Display Variant
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Resolution
Select the desired resolution of your Display Variant from Landscape, Square, Portrait and Responsive options.
Adaptive Globals
Widgets, Subcompositions, etc are hidden or shown based on their Adaptive tab settings. These settings can be referenced in a Display Variant in the Adaptive Globals Section.
Adaptive Tab settings activated by various Adaptive Globals settings
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Screen Size
Used to define various screen sized output variants -
Layout
Used to define output orientation as Tower, Portrait, Landscape and more output variants -
Text Direction
Can be used for defining right to left or left to right text direction output variants -
Interactive
Activate or deactivate any interactive settings of your Composition in an output variant -
Language
Define various languages for output variants -
Custom 1, 2, 3
Various custom options custom output variants
Selecting Created Display Variants
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