Adobe ACROBAT 9 Extended, Manual

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C h a p t e r N i N e
Building Content with
Adobe Presenter
Acrobat 9 includes a snazzy new tool integrated into PowerPoint called
Adobe Presenter. You don’t have to be a Flash wizard to use Presenter to
produce multimedia presentations, learning materials, and even surveys
and standards-compliant quizzes. Once you’re done, the same project can
be used as a PDF file, on a Web page, or as a stand-alone in SWF format, or
it can be published to your Acrobat Connect Pro server.
Presenter offers its own program icon and menu item in your program
listings, but it isn’t a stand-alone program. Instead, it is installed as a
menu in PowerPoint, just like the PDFMaker installed in Office (Windows)
programs.
A Presenter workflow requires several components, including these:
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Constructing the base PowerPoint presentation used for the Presenter
project
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Specifying how the presentation functions, through options such as
playback and quiz interactions
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Defining the viewer interface for the presentation through its theme
and text
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Adding Presenter features, such as audio narration and video, to the
slides
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Testing and publishing the project as PDF, as SWF, or for use in Acrobat
Connect Pro
Presenter isn’t installed or activated with other Acrobat 9 Pro Extended
components, such as LiveCycle Designer or Acrobat Distiller. Instead, it
has its own installation option on the Acrobat 9 Pro Extended installa-
tion screen. Click Install Adobe Presenter and follow the prompts. The first
time you open it, you have to register the product. If you don’t register it,
Presenter runs in trial mode for 30 days.
From the Library of Daniel Dadian