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G'day Steve
I understand that Acrobat can make presentations similiar to what Director/Flash or perhaps PPoint is the better example.
Is there any information links anyone can point be to, that show working examples and other pertinent information. I need to convince an audience of sceptics that Acrobat is a viable alternative
I've been doing presentations with it since version 4. What I like is the flexibility of doing my preparation in other programs rather than being a bit locked into what PowerPoint wants you to do. Not as quick of course.
Convincing people? Last year I did one for a family history group and one guy emailed me and thanked me for the "great PowerPoint presentation". And he is a PP user.
I have also done several on CD. I use winopen.exe which will run any application file via the file association in Windows. (Not so good with Word I hear).
It wasn't until the middle of last year that I discovered the value of the form tool for presentations and Acrobat 6 Pro does offer a lot more with video.
As I indicated the downside is that there is not specific tool for authoring directly for PDF presentations. It's very hard to get information. A recent presentation on the Pro version here in Melbourne spend all but the last ten minutes of a 1.5 hour presentation on everything but the presentation options. In fact apart from a short PDF "presentation" we were told that he (Adobe ?) will probably be surprised at what creative people do with it. The Acrobat Master Class book is the only one I have seen that does go into a fair bit of presentation detail with some good examples on the CD. However it does tend to stimulate the appetite and doesn't bridge the big gap between that and the Acrobat JavaScript manual.
I don't have the book details with me at the moment but you can email me if you need them.
Regards Merv Leeding
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