Tips: Creating Tutorials Using Wink
Posted on Thursday, December 08 @ 23:09:25 CST by maysvill
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Wink is a new, free for personal use, cross platform, screen capture program...ala camtasia, but with a few merits of its own. It is advertised as being "Wink is a Tutorial and Presentation creation software, primarily aimed at creating tutorials on how to use software (like a tutorial for MS-Word/Excel etc). Using Wink you can capture screenshots, add explanations boxes, buttons, titles etc and generate a highly effective tutorial for your users."
There are many good examples of how you can create tutorials in Wink, by capturing screenshots, mouse movements and specifying your own explanations with them at the wink web site, http://www.debugmode.com/wink/
And all this in a standard Windows-based UI with drag-and-drop editing makes it very easy to create high quality tutorials/documentation.
It is estimated that Macromedia Flash Player is installed in more than 90% of the PCs. Using Wink you can create content viewable across the web in all these users' desktops. Similar applications sell for hundreds of dollars, while Wink is free with unrivaled features. So spread the word about Wink to your friends.
Features
* Freeware: Distributed as freeware for business or personal use. However if you want to redistribute Wink, you need to get permission from the author.
* Cross-Platform: Available for all flavours of Windows and various versions of Linux (x86 only).
* Input formats: Capture screenshots from your PC, or use images in BMP/JPG/PNG/TIFF/GIF formats.
* Output formats: Macromedia Flash, Standalone EXE, PDF, PostScript, HTML or any of the above image formats. Use Flash/html for the web, EXE for distributing to PC users and PDF for printable manuals.
* Multilingual support: Works in English, French, German, Italian, Danish, Spanish, Serbian, Japanese, Brazilian Portuguese and Simplified/Traditional Chinese.
* Smart Capture Tools: Capture screenshots automatically as you use your PC, based on mouse and keyboard input (great time saver and generates professional captures).
* Performance/Quality: Creates highly compressed Flash presentations (few kbs to few hundreds of kbs, much smaller than competing commercial products) ideal for using on the web.
Tools:
*Navigation buttons to move to next/previous/random frames in the presentation, you can use custom bitmaps for these buttons (full transparency/alpha channel support).
*Callouts and balloons for displaying text explanations. The inbuilt Callout Editor is used to create custom shaped callouts as you want.
*Intuitive drag-n-drop editing of the frame, callout, cursor, navigation buttons and the title elements.
*Advanced features like templates, cursor editing, palettes, background images, control bars & preloaders for the flash output etc.
*Completely PC and Web ready with exports to PDF, HTML, SWF and EXE formats.
*Innovative compression techniques applied to reduce filesize of output Flash file. Generated flash file plays in Flash players from version 3 and above, giving you widest array of target audience.
Download:
Get latest version of Wink from the download page - http://www.debugmode.com/wink/download.php
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