Wink is a Tutorial and Presentation creation utility, 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.

This is a good example of how you can create tutorials in Wink, by capturing screenshots, mouse movements and specifying your own explanations with them. And all this in a standard Windows-based UI with drag-and-drop editing makes it very easy to create high quality tutorials/documentation.

It is estimated that Macromedia Flash Player is installed in more than 90% of the PCs. Using Wink you can now create high quality tutorials/documentation which will be viewable across the web in all these users' desktops. Similar applications sell for hundreds of dollars, while Wink is free with unrivaled features. So spread the word about Wink to your friends.

Here are some key features of "Wink":

· Freeware: Distributed as freeware for business or personal use. However if you want to redistribute, you need to get permission from the author.
· Smart Capture Tools: Capture screenshots automatically as you use your PC, based on mouse and keyboard input (great time saver and generates professional captures).
· Input formats: Capture screenshots from your PC, or use images in BMP/JPG/PNG/TIFF/GIF formats.
· Output formats: Export your presentations as 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, Brazilian Portuguese and Simplified/Traditional Chinese.
· 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 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.

What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]

· Fixed: Some EXEs generated by Wink without using preloader & controlbar were not displaying properly
· Fixed: Screenshots are distorted when copying to some image editors
· Fixed: Transparent windows and tooltips weren't captured by Wink
· Fixed: Copying frames with audio from another project doesn't enable audio output in the destination project's settings
· Fixed: Image used in preloader was stretched in rendered presentation by one extra pixel on both sides
· Fixed: Previewing too many fonts when editing a callout's text was crashing Wink
· Fixed: Opening Windows audio settings did not work in Vista
· Fixed: Preloader was very small in uncompressed flash files
· Fixed: Wink crashes when Goto Frame Button links to negative frame
· Fixed: Wink generated EXE presentations were too small in dimensions
· Added: New capture dimensions 1024x768 to the new project dialog