PowerPoint-type presentation

[Thomas McGrath III]

I developed on Mac OSX for cross-platform deployment. I used PNG for 
images which worked great. I used .wav files for audio voice overs 
which were large but worked great. I used a timer function to go from 
card (slide) to card. The font I used was Arial but there are a few 
cross platform fonts that transfer well. Search this list for the list 
of fonts that go well. Do not use the default font in REV on the mac 
(Lucida ??) it does not work well. ALso keep your menu small and watch 
out for full screen since you don't know what that will mean for each 
user. Use a backdrop.
REV can handle this stuff with it's eyes closed. A cake walk.
Keep text in small text boxes for easy changes and ask questions on 
what you are trying to do on the list. I will help when I can.
Throw in a couple of animations and look at some of the cool samples at 
the User contributions site at REV. Wild text, Odd shaped windows, 
timed events etc. It's all there.

HTH

Tom

I'd show you my CD but it was over 450 MB and had over 400 Slides over 
20 voiceovers 75 interactive buttons and printable pages. I did the REV 
part in three weeks and the longest part was getting the content from 
the client.

Good luck


On Apr 2, 2004, at 4:24 PM, Marty Knapp wrote:

>> THe problem is you are very vague about what you want to do here. You
>> say PowerPoint - type presentation but what exactly do you mean.
>
>> What are you going to show? Will you put buttons in it for advancing 
>> from
> slide to slide? etc.
>
> I would be putting together an automated "slide show" type 
> presentation,
> where once it's started it will advance itself from slide to slide, 
> with
> text over a background, voice over, etc. At this point, he's not 
> wanting any
> user interaction. Most users will have PCs. I use a Mac and have never 
> done
> anything with Rev on a PC, so am not sure about things like fonts, 
> image
> types (PNG, JPEG, etc), or the sound track, which will be a simple 
> narrative
> with possible some background music.
>
> I'm sorry if I'm a bit vague, at this point I'm just exploring my
> possibilities and I wasn't sure if Rev should be seriously considered 
> for a
> project like this.
>
>
> Marty Knapp
>
>
>
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Thomas J. McGrath III
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