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95  - SAVE YOUR PRESENTATIONS AS VIDEO

On Mac OS X, type:

cd ~/Desktop

Now, you need to run the convert command on your PDF. A %d in the output lename tells

ImageMagick to generate a series of numbered images. You’ll need to replace “All About Tea.pdf”

with the name of your PDF:

convert "All About Tea.pdf" slide_%d.png

Windows has its own command-line utility named convert. If you’ve installed ImageMagick, it should have set

things up so you run its convert utility instead of the Windows one. If you need to run the Windows convert

utility, try the command

%SYSTEMROOT%\SYSTEM32\convert /?. If you nd that the Windows convert utility

is running instead of ImageMagick’s, try

"C:\Program Files\ImageMagick-6.3.8-Q16\convert.exe". (The

exact name of the ImageMagick directory may be different depending on which version you installed.)

When you’re done, you’ll have a series of images on your Desktop: slide 1 will be named slide_0.png,

slide 2 will be named slide_1.png, and so forth. Now you are ready to drop your images into the movie.

Alternatively, if you’d like an animated GIF, ImageMagick would be happy to oblige. Specify a GIF as the output

lename without the

%d, and specify a delay in seconds, as in: convert -delay 5 "All About Tea.pdf"

"All About Tea.gif"

.

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After completing the previous steps, run Windows Movie Maker (Windows) or iPhoto (Mac OS X). If

Movie ...