June 14, 2001

Keep PPT transitions intact after converting to PDF file

* Using Adobe Acrobat Converter for Presentations *

Actino Software - Presentations Tool 1.0
http://www.actino.com/home_int.htm

This German software company, Actino Software Gmbh, is specialized in providing new solutions for Acrobat-based digital communications. It has created a very interesting tool that will allow you to save your presentations as a PDF file and set individual transitions and timing for each slide (as long as you have already Adobe Acrobat installed).
In Acrobat you can only set once and for all one transition effect that will be applied to all your slides, and this setting is usually stored in the application itself and not in the file.

What does this mean?
It means that as soon as you move to a computer different from yours, the Acrobat software that you find installed in the machine where you will run the show might need to be reset again, since the transitions you have applied to your file were not stored in that file but in your machine.

The transition effects that this Software from Actino will add to your presentation are instead stored in the original presentation file itself.

Your presentation can now be enhanced by using some of the typical "show" features of Microsoft PowerPoint while still maintaining the benefits of a PDF file. For example, you can set different transitions for each slide (you can choose among 18 types of effects); in addition, these transitions are stored in the file itself, and will be displayed by any machine which has Acrobat Reader installed.
Additionally, you can manually change and set also the timing for each transition, and set the show to display both to normal view and to full screen view. You can find all the basic PowerPoint transitions such as Wipe Right and Left, Box In and Box Out, Dissolve, Split Horizontal and Vertical, Blind, Cover, Cut, Strips and so on.

The Actino software is available in two languages, German and English and it's available only for the Windows operating systtem. I is sold through the Internet at:
http://www.actino.com/home_int.htm (this is the International Home Page) and it is shipped via e-mail.

There's a downloadable demo English version of 866 Kb (297 Kb zipped) for Windows 95/Adobe Acrobat Reader 4.0 at: ftp.actino.de/demos/windows/present.zip. Using 18 different movie clips (.avi files) it shows the different transition effects you can obtain using this tool, and there's also an Acrobat file that shows these transitions applied to a sample document.

The price of the full retail version is currently 75.00 USD. Check it accessing the international Home Page: (http://www.actino.com/home_int.htm) and selecting Presentation-Tool under the category Presentations on the left side of the page.

 

You can read this article in the original issue of MasterView.


posted by Robin Good on Thursday, June 14 2001
Tuesday, January 15 2008

URL of this article:
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