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Figure 13.11 Specify the presentation's features
The transitions are visible only in Full Screen view. To specify the document opens in this view, choose
File > Document Properties > Initial View. Click Open in Full Screen mode in the Window Options
section.
Presentations Using Picture Tasks
Acrobat displays the Picture Tasks plug-in if you open image PDF files that originated as JPEG images.
Use the tasks to create visual elements quickly such as multiple prints and presentations. Picture Tasks are a
subset of Adobe's Photoshop Album program.
To create a Picture Tasks slideshow, follow these steps:
1. Click the Picture Tasks button and choose Export to Slideshow to open the Export to Slideshow
dialog box.
2. Select the images for exporting to the slideshow from the thumbnails view at the left of the dialog
box (Figure 13.12).
3. Specify a title for the slideshow, the slide duration, and the transition to use. You can also specify a
background sound score for the presentation.
4. Click Export to create the slideshow; save the finished presentation PDF file.
How Big is Big?
Tom created the 'World's Largest Computer Presentation'. At over 51,000 pages, the presentation
includes a few PowerPoint slides, and the rest are PDF pages generated from AutoCAD, MicroStation,
Word, and Excel, scans, and converted microfilm. The presentation includes a few thousand CAD
drawings converted to PDF format, and more than 1500 geo-referenced PDF maps with embedded data.
Using a system of links, buttons, and bookmarks, this enormous collection of files navigates like a single
file.
The presentation includes the Marshall Star newsletter, which is NASA's oldest continuous publication.
The publication at NASA Marshall Space Flight Center covers 44 years in more than 2000 issues and
over 16,000 pages.
The search capabilities blow people away. Often around Huntsville, Alabama, someone will test Tom
by asking if their father or uncle was in the Marshall Star. They are often surprised that their relative was a
champion bowler on the Marshall team, or that they won an award for a new invention.
The World's Largest Computer Presentation ends with an animated, interactive 3 - D page created by
Bentley in MicroStation and Acrobat. The crowd always says, “Wow! I never knew PDF could do that!”