academhack: Presentations III
July 21st, 2006
Yet another trick for making easy presentations. Again involving a flash drive. At times when I teach or present all I want to display is a serious of quotes, just text, or text with simple pictures. What I do in this case, is type out all the quotes in a large font, so they fit onto one page. Now, I have single sheets of paper, each with one quote on them that I want to use. Here is the trick–export the file to a .pdf (on a Mac this is really is, all you need to do is select print and than click the .pdf button at the bottom left). Now that it is saved as a .pdf it is readable by any computer with a .pdf viewer (Adobe Acrobat). But wait there is more, also you can put a .pdf viewer onto your flash drive, like foxitreader (PC) or pdfviewer (Mac), these are both really small, allow you to resize the window and/or view it full screen, simple navigation forward or back one page, and are free. Now using any com”
