Wink, Wax and other treasures by Debugmode

- What is Wink?

Wink is a tool to create presentations, typically of screen shots that are composed with text bubbles to guide you through a software demonstration or training tutorial. There can be interactive components in the project, suich as clickable links. There can now also be audio, and hyperlinks to other documents and websites.

Wink is free and easy to learn and use. It produces presentations in Macromedia Flash format, and other formats.

If you ever need to create multimedia presentatrions, tutorial, training material etc... then you should give Wink a try.

More info and features:

Wink is a Tutorial and Presentation creation software, primarily aimed at creating tutorials on how to use software (like a tutorial for Wax, another pogrm by Satish at debugmode). Using Wink you can capture screenshots, add explanations boxes (bubbles), clickable buttons, titles etc and generate a highly effective tutorial for your users.

(More tutorials created by Wink users and companies can be found at the User Forums.)

Wink makes it very easy to create high quality tutorials/documentation.

Some of Wink's Features:

Cross-Platform: Available for all flavours of Windows and various versions of Linux (x86 only).
Audio: Record voice as you create the tutorial for explaining better.
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 shapes 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.
- Uncompressed output to allow you import the output of Wink into other Flash editors.

For more information and detailed features about the latest version of Wink be sure to visit the Wink section at debugmode.com