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Re: educational uses of nature sounds

Subject: Re: educational uses of nature sounds
From: Dan Dugan <>
Date: Fri, 28 Nov 2003 09:43:21 -0800
Marty, you wrote,

>By placing all the photos in the text, then placing a small graphic "Play
>Sound" button near each species of frog, the graphic can then be linked to
>a WAV or MP3 file of the calling for that frog species.  Conversion from
>DOC book to PDF is then accomplished (you need to buy, own and install
>Acrobat from Adobe, as I have, to be able to do this) by a single button
>click, and you then send your customer a data CD with the PDF file and all
>the necessary sound files in it.  I really like the search and link
>features of Acrobat readers, especially enhanced in Ver 6.0.  I like the
>extreme cross-platform market, as well.

I'm assuming you'll include the necessary version of Acrobat Reader 
on the disc. Can't count on people having the version, or having 
internet connections (think someone putting disc in laptop on plane).

>I am grateful to Walt (and others) for suggestions in accomplishing this
>task, and am sure I am not the first to use such a simple means of adding
>strategic sounds to what was previously a paper book on nature.
>
>I am posting this, because I welcome other instances and suggestions for
>adding to the end user's ease of use.  This is not strictly an "ebook" but
>resembles them functionally.

Great project.

-Dan Dugan


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