Adobe Presenter 6

Preview a presentation

If you want to check your work, you can preview presentations at any time by publishing to your local computer. This is a fast way to see how the presentation will look to users.

When you preview a presentation, it appears in your default web browser. All of the functionality in the presentation, such as audio and quizzes, works exactly the way it will in the Presenter viewer. The presentation appears with all of the theme settings and colors you have chosen.

  1. In PowerPoint, open a presentation (PPT file).
  2. From the Adobe Presenter menu, select Publish.
  3. Select My Computer on the left side.
  4. (Optional) Select Zip files to add all presentation files to a zip file. This is useful if you need to give or send the files to someone else to preview.
  5. (Optional) Select Generate Autorun For CD if you are going to distribute the presentation on a CD‑ROM after previewing. (If you select this option, you can burn the presentation on a CD‑ROM and when it is opened, the presentation automatically begins playing.)
  6. Click Publish.

    When you publish, a new folder with the same name as the presentation is created and placed in your My Documents\My Adobe Presentations folder. The new folder contains all of the presentation files, copies of attachments, and any audio, video, and image files that are part of the presentation.

  7. When the conversion is finished, click View Output. (If you selected the Select Zip files option, you will not see the View Output option. To view the presentation, go to the location where you saved the zip file, unzip the file, and double-click the index.htm file.) The presentation appears in your default web browser.
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    Published presentation with sidebar shown

    A.
    Slide preview

    B.
    Viewer sidebar

    C.
    Panes

    D.
    Toolbar

    E.
    Show/Hide sidebar

    Published presentation with sidebar hidden