Update: This doesn’t work for Adobe Connect. I uploaded the converted SWF to Connect only to lose the keyboard input necessary for changing pages. I ended up using the old Macromedia FlashPaper on Windows to create a usable SWF. A basic SWFTools viewer with several mouse buttons for navigation would be a nice solution, but I haven’t found one just yet.
We’ve been using Adobe Connect in the lab recently, but, ironically, our version of Adobe Connect did not support PDFs (I suppose this is a remnant of the old Macromedia buyout). In any case, a nice solution is to convert the PDF to a SWF. Lucky for us, there is an OSS tool just for that. Enter, SWFTools. The suite contains the tool, pdf2swf designed just the purpose. The default settings for the tool progress through the pages in the PDF like a slideshow; definately not what we want for a presentation. We can, however, specify a viewer to use. SWFTools ship with a keyboard viewer that work great for presentations. Execute this command (on Arch Linux, change the location of keyboard_viewer.swf for other distributions accordingly) to convert a PDF:
pdf2swf -B /usr/share/swftools/swfs/keyboard_viewer.swf doc.pdf
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