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Author attractive PDF presentations
If you create presentations, you probably use a dedicated
tool, such as Microsoft PowerPoint. Even though such tools do
have their strengths, if you already have FrameMaker and Acrobat,
there may be advantages to creating your presentation in PDF
format, such as:
- Using tools you are familiar with and which have much stronger
formatting and single-sourcing capabilities
- PDF files are portable and self-contained (fonts, graphics)
- File size of PDFs is typically much smaller than dedicated
presentation formats
- PDF files can be viewed with free cross-platform readers.
When you create a PDF presentation from FrameMaker files,
you can create a visually stimulating result, while taking advantage
of many FrameMaker features, such as:
- Cross-references, conditional text, tables, variables, equations
(re-using practically all items you already have in your files)
- Single source or easily re-purpose content you already have
in existing FrameMaker files
- Produce a hand-out copy by printing from FrameMaker using
the Thumbnails print setting (specifying number of pages to be
printed on a single page), possibly with no background (using
"hide graphics" or by importing settings from print-optimized
templates as applicable)
- Incorporate navigational buttons
- Benefit from links to external documents (such as topics
in the tutorial/user guide PDFs)
Using FrameMaker-to-Acrobat TimeSavers and the Presentation
Assistant, you can:
- Specify page transitions (slightly different background images/colors
are essential for effective transitions)
- Optionally specify default timing for a self-running presentation
- Add references (to manuals, movies, sound files or web locations)
in source FrameMaker files (so that you can link to them automatically
from the PDF)
- Specify full-screen mode (hiding all user interface items,
such as menus, toolbars); optional progress bar can indicate
current location or used interactively
- Include notes to attach brief comments to specific slides,
displayed on demand
Example: presentation (PDF: 390K),
hand-out
(PDF: 21K) -- produced from the same FrameMaker
source file
(more examples available
in the Showcase section)
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