Don't Forget Slides – Overview

We have prepared lecture slides based on the contents of the "Don't Forget" boxes which appear throughout each chapter of the book, usually at the end of major sections. The slides are designed for lectures, so each slide contains only one or, at most, two points.

Formats

The slides are available in three formats:

PDF

This will provide the best quality for display, but you will not be able to do any editing unless you have Acrobat. (If you use MacOS X, PDFLab is an excellent utility that you could use to add, delete or re-order pages.) To show the PDF slides, open them in Adobe Reader, and use the View>Full Screen command to hide the menu bar etc. You can then use the right and left arrow keys to move forwards and backwards between slides. Use escape to exit the slideshow.

PowerPoint compatible

These slides consist of images of the text pasted into their own PowerPoint slides. This means that you can display them using PowerPoint, and you can add your own slides or delete some of ours. You can even add transitions, if you like. You will not be able to edit the content of individual slides. These slides can also be used with OpenOffice.org's Impress presentation tool, if you prefer to use Open Source software instead of Microsoft's.

Flash

A Flash movie of the slides is embedded in each page in this section of the site. This is primarily so that you can have a look at the slides before downloading them in one of the other formats. If you wish you may download the SWF files and use them on a Web site, provided that site is only used as teaching support for a course at your institution. We do not recommend using these movies for projecting slides in a lecture, as the quality is not good enough for displaying at a large size.

You need version 9 or higher of the FlashPlayer plug-in or ActiveX control to play the embedded slides. If you cannot play the slides, make sure that you are not using an older version of the plug-in. Windows users may have to click on the embedded Flash content in order to activate the control.

Player controls for the Flash Slides

Left double arrow = previous slide; right double arrow = next slide; single arrow = play (change slide every five seconds); square = stop playing.

Problems with Downloading?

Depending on how your browser's preferences are set, some of these types of file may open in a browser window or some other application instead of being saved to disk if you click on the download links. If that happens, right-click (or control-click if you are using a one-button mouse on a Mac) on the link, and select the option to save the linked file to disk from the context menu that appears. The exact phrasing differs among browsers. (Firefox: Save Link As..., Explorer: Save Target As..., and so on.)