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TRUE STORY: Today I walked in dreadfully into the office because this is the day we start planning, designing and building training materials for a very large $1 million+ enterprise software implementation I've been leading for over a year. Before I start my day I go online to get my daily dose of HN stories and SHAZAM! Like a miracle out of IT Heaven this amazing tool comes out out of nowhere to punch my daunting wo…

thanks dude. email me at spatel @ iorad.com ...the ppt doc is ready just working on the premium workflow..we can try to hook you up a bit early.

cool, I'll touch base later. Have you guys put any thought to legal/privacy requirements to easy worries for companies dealing with proprietary software? NDA's and that kind of stuff?

Re: Show HN: Iorad - the tutorial builder

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TRUE STORY: Today I walked in dreadfully into the office because this is the day we start planning, designing and building training materials for a very large $1 million+ enterprise software implementation I've been leading for over a year. Before I start my day I go online to get my daily dose of HN stories and SHAZAM! Like a miracle out of IT Heaven this amazing tool comes out out of nowhere to punch my daunting wo…

This product is brilliant for creating Methods Of Procedure (MOP) documents, which are important but highly tedious step-by-step guides that need to be done right.

Also looking for premium PPT and PDF export options. Going to play with this more to see how easily my project teams can pick this up.

The editing workflow is a bit clunky, but given it's a first launch it's definitely workable. Small nitpick: wish that triple-click selects the entire caption in editing mode.

Re: Show HN: Iorad - the tutorial builder

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LOVE it. I always hated screen casts. I prefer creating a Word or PDF document with annotated screenshots which user can go through at their own pace. One of the idea in my idea list was to make it easy to take screenshots and annotate them and create a polished PDF. But what you have created is even better. It is highly interactive and user can follow the steps as they work on the actual application. Extremely well…

thanks much...we're going to follow a github type model..public tutorials are free...for premium we are going to offer pdf, ppt, doc and html export to deploy on your own servers...

That is a fantastic idea.

Re: Show HN: Iorad - the tutorial builder

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we're working on that to speed it up, would you prefer a mode with no animations?

What about a toggle to set the animation speed before publishing?

Even with configurable animation speed, I think the default should be either no animation or very fast, since this is supposed to be an alternative to screencasts.

My hunch is no animation is better, but since I haven’t actually seen that I don’t know if some animation is necessary to provide a cue for where the next step is.

Re: Show HN: Iorad - the tutorial builder

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I read this as: You think that this alternative-to-screencasts is great, but you'd pay more money if it also made… screencasts. ;) There's absolutely nothing wrong with liking screencasts. But if you want a screencast - a thing with video and audio clips that conveys information through voice - you want a different product, right? There are existing products that help you make screencasts. The problem with bolting sc…

Not really. I want the ability to make it into a multi-media in the truest sense of the term. I'd want it as an option, but not a requirement. Maybe I'm just asking for a youtube-boxed sized version of hypercard. :D

good point. it'd be nice if more features were options, and not necessarily requirements. it would probably simplify things, at least.

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LOVE it. I always hated screen casts. I prefer creating a Word or PDF document with annotated screenshots which user can go through at their own pace. One of the idea in my idea list was to make it easy to take screenshots and annotate them and create a polished PDF. But what you have created is even better. It is highly interactive and user can follow the steps as they work on the actual application. Extremely well…

thanks much...we're going to follow a github type model..public tutorials are free...for premium we are going to offer pdf, ppt, doc and html export to deploy on your own servers...

How soon for any of the exports? The FAQ says 'summer 2012', but I know people that could use this yesterday.

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thanks much...we're going to follow a github type model..public tutorials are free...for premium we are going to offer pdf, ppt, doc and html export to deploy on your own servers...

How soon for any of the exports? The FAQ says 'summer 2012', but I know people that could use this yesterday.

the .doc and .ppt is ready ...send me a email and we ll put u on the fast track spatel iorad .com

Re: Show HN: Iorad - the tutorial builder

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post #86

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How soon for any of the exports? The FAQ says 'summer 2012', but I know people that could use this yesterday.

the .doc and .ppt is ready ...send me a email and we ll put u on the fast track spatel iorad .com

Thanks! I'll pass that along.
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