Adobe ACROBAT 9 HOW-TOS - Building Content with Adobe Presenter

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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 le, on a Web page, or as a stand-alone in SWF format, or
it can be published to your Acrobat Connect Pro server.
Presenter oers 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 Oce (Windows)
programs.
A Presenter workow 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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Dening 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 rst
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