IrfanView might be a bit more popular than Pressbooks. We know about 3 links to it since March 2021 and only 3 links to Pressbooks. We are tracking product recommendations and mentions on various public social media platforms and blogs. They can help you identify which product is more popular and what people think of it.
And see if your institution has a license for Pressbooks, which allows you to create your own multimedia book. Source: 12 months ago
I self published a history book with extensive maps. I prepared the manuscript online with Pressbooks https://pressbooks.com/, and published with Amazon's Kindle Direct Publishing https://kdp.amazon.com/en_US/. Very satisfied with both. The book grew out of my website http://ravensworthstory.org/. I briefly describe the process of preparing maps for the book here... Source: over 2 years ago
So, I am aware of Pressbooks, which uses Wordpress. Also, Booktype, which looks like a fairly complicated system to set up. Finally, I can think of Open Monograph Press, which takes the complication process even further. Source: almost 3 years ago
It doesn't sound like you need animations or other effects here, just still images. If that's so, you could: Export the slides to high resolution images (at least high enough to match the highest resolution your projectors are capable of). Use a PC to drive each projector; the cheapest, oldest PC in the place will be more than adequate. Run a program that can fill the screen with an image (and if needed, switch... Source: 12 months ago
Scantailor (https://scantailor.org) is the tool for self-scanned books that exist in images (png, jpg, etc). However, I usually use Irfanview with PDF plugin (https://irfanview.com - download both Irfanview and the Plugins from this home page) I have elsewhere in r/PDF shown how you can do batch splitting of two-page scans, clean up muddy pages (yellowed or browned) . In the Reddit search box, search for... Source: over 1 year ago
From there, open your favorite image editor (I use & recommend irfanView BTW 😁) & paste it there. Then save it (I HIGHLY recommend saving it as a JPEG file). Source: over 2 years ago
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