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As with video capture, it is important to consider the screen size for your audience and whether you want the presentation to be fixed size or resizeable. Desktop captures, especially detailed windows such as the Eclipse development platform, degrade in quality when resized or made too small making fonts impossible to read. The best screen quality comes from a fixed screen size at a size that is slightly smaller than your minimum user's screen (to allow for window borders and presentation controls). To make a fixed size presentation window, embed the presentation as an object with a fixed size in a web page. If you just A less desirable alternative, if you hand the audiience audience an AVI or SWF file, they will resize it in their browser or player, and this will cause distortion. For presentation size, 800x600 and 1024x768 are common low-end laptop display sizes. Therefore 1000x750 (slighty smaller than 1024x768) makes a good fixed presentation window size.

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Here is a link to an example presensation hosted at the Vcasmo site: "Java Security in Apache Tuscany", Dan Becker (password tuscany)

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Any web site can embed a presentation as an object. Upload to your site and use HTML or JSP pages to serve the presentation. Even the Confluence Wiki can serve presentation if you attach the media files to a page. The following HTML code shows an embedded SWF presentation. Notice how the file is embedded and wrapped in an object element in order to work with older and new browsers.

<OBJECT CLASSID="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" 
   WIDTH="1000" HEIGHT="750" CODEBASE="http://active.macromedia.com/flash5/cabs/swflash.cab#version=7,0,0,0">
<PARAM NAME=movie VALUE="/confluence/download/attachments/96837/MyPresentation.swf">
<PARAM NAME=play VALUE=true>
<PARAM NAME=loop VALUE=false>
<PARAM NAME=quality VALUE=high>
<EMBED SRC="/confluence/download/attachments/96837/MyPresentation.swf" 
   WIDTH=1000 HEIGHT=750 quality=high loop=false wmode=transparent TYPE="application/x-shockwave-flash"
   PLUGINSPAGE="http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash">
</EMBED>
</OBJECT>

A Vcasmo hosted presentation looks like this:

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