Wink

2.0

User Guide
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Wink™ 2.0 User Guide Copyright © 2003-06 Bent Møller Madsen, Linda Worthington & Satish Kumar. S. All rights reserved. The information in this document is furnished for informational use only, is subject to changewithout notice, and should not be construed as a commitment by the author. The author assumes no responsibility or liability for any errors or inaccuracies that may appear in this document. The software described in this document is furnished under license and may only be used or copied in accordance with the terms of such license. Macromedia® and Macromedia® Flash® are trademarks of Macromedia, Inc.and may be registered in certain jurisdictions. Adobe® and Adobe® Reader® are trademarks of Adobe Systems Incorporated that may be registered in certain jurisdictions. Microsoft® and Microsoft® Windows® are trademarks of Microsoft Corporation that may be registered in certain jurisdictions. All other products or name brands are trademarks of their respective holders and are acknowledged.

Tableof Contents 1 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 Introduction About Wink™ Requirements Installation New features in version 2.0 Differences between Windows and Linux versions Using this guide Basics 2.1 How to use Wink 2.2 Your first Wink project step-by-step User Interface 3.1 Basic UI 3.2 New Project Wizard and capturing screenshots 3.2.1 Step 1 - Setting up the project 3.2.2 Step 2 - Capturing screenshots3.3 Project Settings 3.4 Palette 3.5 Editing frames in a project 3.5.1 Frame Titles 3.5.2 Stay in this frame for time 3.5.3 Add Audio 3.5.4 Add Image 3.5.5 Add Preset Shape 3.5.6 Shapes Editor 3.5.7 Add Textbox 3.5.8 Callout Editor 3.5.9 Cursor 3.5.10 Next/Previous Buttons 3.5.11 Goto Frame Button 3.5.12 Background Image/Colour 3.5.13 Shift All Elements 3.5.14 Crop All Frames 3.5.15 Resize AllFrames 3.5.16 Insert and delete frames 3.5.17 Editing the sequence of frames 3.5.18 Thumbnails Only View 3.6 Rendering the flash presentation 3.7 Templates 3.8 Export/import text to and from file 3.9 Export to HTML, PDF, PostScript and image files 3.10 Preferences 3.10.1 Flash Preloader 3.10.2 Flash Control bar 3.11 Shortcut keys 3.12 Toolbar Tips and Tweaks 4.1 Screen size of presentations Optimaluse of input-driven capture 4.2 Edit multiple frames 4.3 Editing screenshots in frames 4.4 4.5 How to create more than one textbox in a frame 4.6 Copy frames between projects Optimize the size of presentations 4.7 4.8 Maximize the space for showing presentations in a browser Saving compressed projects 4.9 4.10 URLs of interest Known issues Buttons in PDF files exported from Wink 5.1 Flash outputsometimes looks garbled with palette 5.2 4 4 4 4 5 5 5 6 6 7 10 10 10 10 12 13 15 16 16 16 17 17 18 18 18 19 22 23 23 24 25 25 25 25 26 26 26 27 27 28 28 29 30 31 32 33 33 33 34 34 34 34 34 34 35 35 36 36 36

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1.1 About Wink™
Wink is a software tool to make presentations and tutorials about using software programs. A Wink presentation will resemble a livewalkthrough about how to use the software. Also the author of the presentation can add comments and explanations to parts of the presentation to better explain the concepts and usage to the end user. There are many purposes for these kinds of presentations: • Advertising of software. • Tutorials of software for classes. • Documentation of software to supplement written documentation. • Answerquestions about the use of programs visually. The basic output format of Wink is Flash. Flash is viewed in a web browser using the free Macromedia Flash Player which is already installed on most computers or can easily be installed the first the time the end user tries to watch a flash file. Wink is actively in development and constantly improving. If you have a comment or suggestion to make or an...