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Adobe Presenter best practices
Adobe recommends these best practices for creating presentations:
Design your online presentation based on the bandwidth capabilities of your audience. If your audience has fast, broadband connections, you
can create a graphic-intensive presentation that includes many animations. However, if your audience has slower connection speeds,
consider using graphic images only (no animations) or no graphics at all. By doing so, you provide a good viewing experience to your
audience. Adobe Presenter also enables you to lower the quality level of images and audio files to create content suitable for audiences with
low bandwidth.
Consider creating a written script before recording audio for your presentation. Speaking into a microphone can be more difficult than giving a
presentation to a live audience. To ensure a smooth delivery that covers all of your important points, consider creating a script for the entire
presentation before recording audio for it. (If you have slide notes written in PowerPoint, you can easily import them into Adobe Presenter).
Add animations to enhance the overall presentation, if your audience has fast connections. Adobe Presenter supports PowerPoint animations
so that you can create powerful, animated, multimedia presentations. Animations add impact to your message and improve the overall
viewing experience of users.
Add video to presentation slides or to the sidebar to reuse information you already have. Video is appropriate if your audience has high
bandwidth.
Create presentations that are a manageable size. A single PowerPoint presentation typically corresponds to a single module or course.
Usually a module contains 20–40 slides and results in a 15–45-minute session for users.
Preview the presentation by publishing it locally before publishing to a Adobe Connect Server. Previewing enables you to see the converted
presentation and ensure that it meets your requirements.
Create slide titles to give users easy access to any slide. Check that titles appear in the PowerPoint outline for all slides, including graphic-
only slides, before publishing your presentation.
Create a Adobe Presenter presentation
Adobe Presenter presentations are always based on PowerPoint presentations. To start a new presentation, you open an existing PowerPoint
presentation (or create a new one) and then add all of the features available in Adobe Presenter. For more information about how to add these
features, see the appropriate section.
1. In PowerPoint, open a presentation (PPT or PPTX file) or create a new presentation by selecting File menu > New.
2. From the Adobe Presenter ribbon, select the Adobe Presenter features you want to add to your presentation. You are not required to change
the presentation before publishing. But adding Adobe Presenter features, such as audio narration, video files, SWF files, and quizzes,
enhances the presentation and gives you the opportunity to experiment with the functionality available in Adobe Presenter.
3. Preview the presentation by publishing it locally to your computer.
4. If necessary after previewing, return to step 2 and edit the presentation.
5. When you have finished, publish the presentation to Adobe Connect Server.
1. In PowerPoint, open a presentation (PPT or PPTX file).
2. Select Adobe Presenter > Help > Export to Adobe Presenter 5.x and 6.x.
1. In PowerPoint, open a presentation (PPT or PPTX file) created in Articulate Presenter.
2. In the conversion dialog box, click Yes.
3. Choose a name and save location for the converted presentation.
4. (Optional) To view information in the conversion log file, click View Log. (You can also use Windows Explorer at any time to view the log file.
Navigate to the location you specified in step 3, right-click the ConversionLog.log file, and select Open with > Notepad.)
5. After the conversion process finishes, click Close.
6. In Adobe Presenter, edit the new, converted file and add the Adobe Presenter features as desired.
Preview a presentation
Previewing is an easy way to see how a presentation looks to users. If you want to check your work, preview presentations at any time using the
Preview options in the Presentation group.
When you preview a presentation, it appears in your default web browser. All of the functionality in the presentation, such as audio and quizzes,
works exactly the way it will in the Adobe Presenter viewer. The presentation appears with all of the theme settings and colors you have chosen.
You cannot preview attachments.
1. In PowerPoint, open a presentation (PPT or PPTX file).