PowerPoint to SWF

Hi everyone,
I just wanted to see if anyone recognizes this image. This is from a customer of mine who wants me to update an older project they have. It is a bunch of PowerPoint Presentations converted to SWF. There is a MAIN SWF that loads the individual SWFs. The user can click play and the slides are timed, and the blue bar below acts like a video bar that tells the user where they are at on the presentation. Does anyone recognize if this is an out-of-box- PowerPoint converter to SWF? I looked at a few, but none looked like this. The other option is for me to code something similar...
thank you for your time,
Rafa.

Hi,
Thanks for the quick response. I had no idea Adobe Presenter existed. I donwloaded the trial version and am playing with it right now. It seems to be similar, but not exactly the same. I will keep looking at my options...
thanks!
Rafa.

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