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I was talking in terms of presentations that may have a complex navigation system consisting of lots of user feedback, lots of animation, sound, etc.
I've seen PDF used for that, but I, personally, have found that there are other applications designed specifically for that (Flash, for instance).
There are not that many people making higher-level presentations with PDF, but you mention it. Also, we have to be aware that Acrobat can not be considered to be a presentation authoring tool.
On the other hand, you may have less functionality with Flash (had to be determined, of course).
It sounds like version 6 adds a lot of new stuff that I need to look at in more detail ;o)
Yep, definitely worthwile looking at....
Actually, the biggest problem I had with basic, static presentations in PDF files was the fact that, by default, Acrobat Reader wouldn't anti-alias vector line art.
This has been addressed since Acrobat 5, where smoothing line art became an option. The problem is that Adobe did set the factory default to "off", and there is no way to programmatically override this setting. If I remember correctly, Acrobat 6 products now have smoothing line art set to on.
As for those that say that PDF may be considered the 'best' format for this type of thing, I'd love to hear more specifics.
Also, when talking of it being a good format, are people referring to it as a good delivery format or a good authoring format (or both?)
As stated above, Acrobat is not an authoring tool per-se. So, if you have a good toolset to create the documents elsewhere (maybe start creating a market for pre-cooked PDFMARK-EPS files which can create some of the features by simply placing those files in the document and then have them processed with Distiller), you might be better off. For refining the functionality, you may find Acrobat to be kind of useful (even after the mess-up with the forms creation user interface).
Hope, this can help.
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