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  1. Can I view examples of rich mobile media content right now, to get some ideas as to how the Plazmic™ Content Developer's Kit can be user, or what type of content I can create with the Content Developer's Kit? Are there any sites I can browse to view demo examples?
  2. What elements and attributes in SVG do you support?
  3. Can I hand code my SVG?
  4. What elements of the SWF format does your SWF Conversion Utility support?
  5. What types of images do you support?
  6. What font is used as the default system font in Composer?
  7. What audio formats do you support?
  8. Can I reference movies, such as AVIs and QuickTime?
  9. Is there a limit imposed on file size for files running on Media Engine?
  10. Do you have an example directory structure that content developers should use?
  11. How do I optimize my content, generally?
  12. How do I get content out of Composer into a format that the Media Engine understands?
  13. How do I optimize content when exporting from Composer?
  14. I'd like to re-purpose my existing content to run on a BlackBerry wireless handheld. What should I do?

1. Can I view examples of rich mobile media content right now, to get some ideas as to how it can be used, or what type of content I can create with the Plazmic Content Developer's Kit? Any sites I can browse to view demo examples?

The Plazmic Content Developer's Kit ships with a series of content samples. They are installed with the Plazmic CDK. You can also use your BlackBerry Browser to browse the following site http://www.plazmic.com/svg_gallery and view a series of rich content demos.

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2. Can I hand code my SVG?

SVG can be manually coded, but this is not recommended for novice developers. Please refer to the BlackBerry Wireless Handheld SVG Reference documentation for a list of supported SVG elements and attributes. Category Top

3. What elements and attributes in SVG do you support?

Please refer to the BlackBerry Wireless Handheld SVG Reference documentation for a list of supported SVG elements and attributes. Category Top

4. What elements of the SWF format does your SWF Conversion Utility support?

Please refer to the Plazmic Content Development Kit for BlackBerry User Guide, chapter 3, entitled "Converting Flash to Scalable Vector Graphics" for more information on what is supported by the SWF Conversion Utility. Category Top

5. What types of images do you support?

The .pme file format supports GIF and PNG image formats. You can create content with other image types but they will need to be converted to GIF or PNG format in order for them to be viewed correctly. Category Top

6. What font is used as the default system font in Composer?

The default system font used in Composer for BlackBerry is Tahoma. It is read in from the device profile. The sizes for small, medium and large are also read in from the device profile. Category Top

7. What audio formats do you support?

Single channel MIDI files are supported for playback. Category Top

8. Can I reference movies, such as AVIs and QuickTime?

Media Engine does not support .avi or .qt files. Category Top

9.Is there a limit imposed on file size for files running on Media Engine?

There is a 64KB file size limitation. However in order to provide the best possible mobile user experience, we strongly recommend that you optimize your content. Category Top

10. Do you have an example directory structure that content developers should use?

We do not impose a specific directory structure when creating content with the Plazmic Content Developer’s Kit. However, make sure that you use relative URLs when linking to other scenes, images, or sounds, and that content creation environment is the same as the content deployment environment. This guideline enables you to move entire directories from one location to another. Category Top

11. How do I optimize my content, generally?

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12. How do I get content out of Composer into a format that the Media Engine understands?

Please review the Plazmic Content Developer's Kit User Guide documentation and the Composer User Guide documentation for a detailed explanation of the content creation process. Here are the general steps for exporting content from Composer into a format the Media Engine understands: Category Top

13. How do I optimize content when exporting from Composer?

To reduce the size of your content that is exported from Composer, keep in mind the following attributes produce an image for each frame of animation: In order to reduce the number of images, try to minimize these types of animations. Also, keep objects in their vector graphic forms instead of rasterizing them; rasterizing objects will produce images on export. Category Top

14. I'd like to re-purpose my existing content to run on a BlackBerry wireless handheld. What should I do?

You must convert your content to SVG format. Refer to the BlackBerry Wireless Handheld SVG Reference documentation for information about supported SVG elements and attributes. You can also use the SWF Conversion Utility to convert support flash (SWF) content into supported SVG content. You can then transcode your SVG content to .pme or .pmb format, which the BlackBerry handheld supports. Category Top