11. Creating an Acrobat Presentation

Acrobat provides a range of features that makes it easy to use a PDF document as a presentation for a variety of situations:

• Group presentations, in which you’re displaying the PDF pages using a computer projector. In this case, the PDF file replaces the more common (though not as graphically sophisticated) PowerPoint file.

• Distributed presentation files that are intended to be viewed by readers on their own computers. This may be an electronic brochure, distributed on the Web.

• Kiosk presentations, in which the PDF document is viewed in a public place on a dedicated computer. A “Where to Go” kiosk in an airport is a good example.

PDF documents can be viewed full-screen with all the transitions and navigational ...

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