Wink

Wink is a Tutorial and Presentation creation software, primarily aimed at creating tutorials on how to use software (like a tutor for MS-Word/Excel etc). Using Wink you can capture screenshots of your software, use images that you already have, type-in explanations for each step, create a navigation sequence complete with buttons, delays, titles etc and create a highly effective tutorial for your users. "...

Freeware: Distributed as freeware for business or personal use.
However if you want to redistribute, you need to get permission from the author.

Cross-Platform
Available for all flavours of Windows and various versions of Linux (x86 only).

Multilingual support
Works in English, French, German, Italian, Danish, Spanish, Serbian, Japanese, Brazilian Portuguese and Simplified/Traditional Chinese.

Input formats
Capture screenshots from your PC, or use images in BMP/JPG/PNG/TIFF/TGA/PCX formats.

Output formats
Export your presentations as Macromedia Flash, Standalone EXE, PDF, 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.

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).

• 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.

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Wink 2.0 (windows) released.
(Fri Apr 14, 2006 9:23 am)

Wink 2.0 (for Windows) has been released. This version improves on the previous version with numerous bug fixes and enhancements, including unlimited textboxes & buttons, new button/object types, audio in tutorials and much more.

Download:
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Please visit the Wink page at http://www.debugmode.com/wink/download.php to download the latest version. This release is for the Windows version of Wink 2.0; the linux version is being developed and will be released in a month or two.

Major changes since last version
· Translated to more languages
· Undo/Redo
· Unlimited textboxes
· Unlimited buttons
· URL Buttons to open a webpage when clicked
· Image objects
· Shape objects, create and use shapes just like callouts with no text
· Audio (can record while capturing, as well as add/edit later)
· Improved and simpler properties panel
· Improved flow of control in output swf file so no more flickering of title/callouts when no buttons are used
· Ability to disable frames in a project so they won’t appear in output
· Uncompressed output to allow importing of Wink generated .swf files in other Flash editing software
· Numerous bug fixes

New! Wink 2.0 build 1050 for Windows released!
Tue Oct 09, 2007

@ Satish/Author:
"This is the first in a series of bugfix releases which have been long pending. I'm planning to do frequent bugfix releases once every few weeks going forward. You can get the new build from the Wink download page. "

Below are the list of fixes in this build:
- Some presentations rendered to exe files hangs/freezes when played
- Some frames doesn't appear in rendered presentations.
- Unhandled Exception while rendering project
- Rendering large presentations to Uncompressed Flash shifts the content to the right/down
- First Slide with button is displayed twice in IE7 along with 'click to activate control' tooltip message
- Can't select button when textbox is selected
- One of the included dlls is in debugmode
- Parts of the rendered presentation displays as blank/white frames

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New! Wink 2.0 build 1060 for Windows released!
New! Wink 2.0 build 1060 for Windows released!