I would like to know as many possible alternatives to using PowerPoint
as I can find. I am aware of using Word (not great) and of course
Keynote. I would like to use pdfs, Flash etc but am not sure how to do
this.

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Clarification of Question by stirwin-ga on 26 May 2003 03:54 PDT

I guess what I am looking for is on-line teaching resources as well as
software packages that will enable me to do this.

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Request for Question Clarification by easterangel-ga on 26 May 2003 04:17 PDT

Hi! Would you accept as an answer other presentation software that is
available out there? Just let me know. :)

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Request for Question Clarification by easterangel-ga on 26 May 2003 04:20 PDT

I thought of this solution since for flash it is quite difficult since
you will need to have flash programming knowledge. So an alternative
presentation software is the best way to go.

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Clarification of Question by stirwin-ga on 26 May 2003 07:20 PDT

I am aware of some other software, particularly the other Office
suites and of course Keynote, but what I am really looking for is in
relation to Falsh and using pdfs for beginner and intermediate users.

Software solutions outside of office suites would be of some interest.

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Request for Question Clarification by easterangel-ga on 26 May 2003 07:31 PDT

Hi! Do you mean you just want to TUTORIALS on how to create flash
animations and pdf files for beginners?

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Clarification of Question by stirwin-ga on 26 May 2003 08:32 PDT

Yes

That would be a major part of this, but also any software that I am missing.

Hi! Thanks for the question.

First of all let us go to your major objective… the tutorials. I will
first list here the tutorials that directly concerns you which talks
about making presentations or slideshows.

PDF Slide Show Tutorials:

“Creating PDF Slide Shows for PCs and PDAs”
http://www.techtv.com/screensavers/howto/story/0,24330,3395015,00.html

“Create a PDF Slide Show”
http://www.techtv.com/screensavers/howto/jump/0,24331,3395016,00.html

“Creating PDF slideshows”
http://homepage.cs.uri.edu/tutorials/PhotoshopEl/Help/help.html 

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Flash Slideshow Tutorials:

“Macromedia Flash: Making a Slideshow”
http://www.tiemdesign.com/HOWTO/2001/Nov/FlashSS/default.htm  

“How-to-create slide-shows”
http://www.scripts.nl/Flash/createslide.asp 

In terms of getting general basic and intermediate tutorials on
creating PDF files and flash animations, the following websites will
be of help.

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PDF Tutorials

“Creating Your Own Acrobat Documents”
http://corax.cwrl.utexas.edu/cac/online/02/sammonsacrobat/creating.htm#Creating%20Presentations

“Creating a PDF file”
http://www.espere.org/pdffile.htm 

“How to Create Accessible Adobe PDF Files”
http://www.adobe.com/web/tips/acr5access/pdfs/accessbooklet.pdf 

“Advanced Techniques for Creating Accessible Adobe PDF Files”
http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/pdfs/CreateAccessibleAdvanced.pdf

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Flash Tutorials
Virtual FX.net
http://virtual-fx.net/vfx/tutorial.php 

Webmonkey
http://hotwired.lycos.com/webmonkey/multimedia/shockwave_flash/ 

Flash Kit
http://www.flashkit.com/tutorials/Getting_Started/

Flash Basics
http://www.echoecho.com/flashbasics.htm 

Flash Thief
http://www.flashthief.com/tutorials/index.htm 

Learn That
http://www.learnthat.com/courses/viewlets/flash/index.shtml 

Macromedia Flash Tutorials
http://www.macromedia.com/software/flash/productinfo/tutorials/ 

About.com: Macromedia Flash Tutorials (Beginners)
http://graphicssoft.about.com/cs/flashtutorials/index.htm 

About.com: Flash Intermediate & Advanced Tutorials
http://graphicssoft.about.com/cs/flashtutsmisc/

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I was also able to find the software programs, which can create flash
presentation much more easily for you.

Vector Victor
http://www.vectorvictor.com/home.asp 

Wildform
http://www.createflashpresentations.com/?sid=&ref=GGFLASHPRESENTATION
      
Impact Builder
http://multimedia-presentations-resources.com/ 

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The following presentation software meanwhile does not come from the
usual office suites in the market right now. You might be interested
in them as well.

Presentware
http://www.presentware.com/ 

AV Presenter
http://www.avpresenter.co.uk/home.htm 

UPresent
http://www.codeblazer.com/upresent/index.htm 

EZ-ROM
http://www.ez-rom.com/landingpage/index.php?affiliate=000500005 

Presentation Publisher
http://cmbsoftware.com/publish.htm 

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flash slideshow tutorial
creating pdf files slideshow
             
I hope these links would help you in your research. Before rating this
answer, please ask for a clarification if you have a question or if
you would need further information.
             
Thanks for visiting us.              
             
Regards,              
Easterangel-ga              
Google Answers Researcher

Not as useful as I would have liked, after looking at each of the
links. One was a duplicate. Didn't really get to what I need, but
helped, perhaps by showing that it is not easy!

You could create your slides in any graphics package and then use an
image viewing propram such as Irfanview to step through the images in
a directory. Irfanview can also take a text file containing a list of
image files and run them as a slideshow.
http://www.irfanview.com/

You can also use the web browser Opera in presentation mode, which may
be useful if you have existing content in HTML format.
http://www.opera.com/support/tutorials/operashow/

Owain

You may be interested in the free download of OpenOffice, which
includes a presentation package called Impress.  OpenOffice can read
and write files in most popular formats, including the Microsoft
Office file formats.

http://www.openoffice.org/

In addition to the current version, there is also a Beta version that
may be of interest.  It allows you to export files in PDF and Flash
(SWF) formats.

Good luck with your projects.