Re: Making tutorials
Re: Making tutorials
- Subject: Re: Making tutorials
- From: Jim Foster <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2004 12:56:17 -0400
On 13-Sep-04, at 11:31 AM, email@hidden wrote:
There must be something that records the movements for under $50.00.
Rick Curran
I can't answer your direct question about something to record movements
for under $50.00, but I can quickly suggest at least two other possible
ways to make "demo's".
1) Believe it or not, I once used FIleMaker Pro to create a simple demo
of our old BBS system. FileMaker is a database application, of course,
but in this case I used it without any data to speak of. I simply
created a number of different layout pages, each of which were screen
shots of some "page" of our BBS system. FileMaker allows you to create
"buttons" on any layout and one of the things these buttons can do is
call up another layout. These buttons can also be invisible. So, as
long as you had a pretty good idea of how the flow of the presentation
was going to go in terms of movement from one screen shot to another,
you could click your way through and it looked pretty realistic.
2) The commercial version of Adobe Acrobat (not the free Acrobat
Reader, though) has an ability not only to save a web page to PDF
format but also to save all the pages which are linked to the page from
which you start. In fact, it will ask you how many levels down you want
it to pursue and capture linked pages. You have to be careful with
this, or you can easily end up with a PDF document which is several
hundred pages long.
Now, the thing that is neato about this is that each of the PDF pages
retain the links which call up the higher or lower level pages. This
means that you can literally browse the captured pages, without being
connected to the Internet, in precisely the same manner as if you were
Internet connected. The only thing which works differently in the
Acrobat version versus a real browser is that the backward and forward
arrows do not refer to the pages you last visited but rather the last
and next page in the Acrobat document. This means, if you want to show
people what each page directly linked to a home page looks like, you
can navigate to the downward linked page by clicking on its link but
you can only go back to the home page by clicking on a link
specifically created for it, NOT by clicking on Acrobat's back button.
Both FileMaker and Acrobat are pricey applications, but I mention all
this just in case your MUG or you already own them.
Good luck!!
Jim Foster
President
Macintosh Users East [MaUsE]
http://www.mause.ca
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