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Subject: Re: Applications for making color slides info requested
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Date: 6 Apr 91 20:35:28 GMT
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In article <1991Apr6.005239.25656@nntp-server.caltech.edu>, gsb@bach.caltech.edu (Suresha Guptha) writes:
> Hi netters,
> 	I am looking for a powerful application to make color slides and 
> transparencies. The application should be capable of handling graphics, drawing
> and text. The application should be able to use multiple colors with
> varying saturation (eg. dark blue, light blue .....). Please let me know your
> advise and opinion in this behalf.
> 
>   	Thanks in advance,
> 
> 
> -Suresh
> gsb@bach.caltech.edu

	Here at Harvey Mudd College we have a program for Junior and Senior
engineers called clinic, which is essentially a project sponsored by some
company. Every semester we give a presentation to the class and anyone else who
wants to come, in slide format.
	The most popular program for making these slides is Aldud Persuasion.
It's very powerful, letting you import EPS and PICT format graphics into the
slide windows. Creating slides is easy. You choose a template, or make your own
if you like, enter basically all of your text in an outline, and the program
automatically puts the text in the format defined in your templates.
	You can use its drawing tools to add whatever you need to your slides,
like flowcharts, or whatever. In 256 color mode you can select just about any
color you want. It has built in algorithms for filling in patterns ranging from
shading along one axis to spiralled shading. Just last week I made 22 slides
for my team (we discarded some later for brevity) in my first attempt at using
it. It took me about 6 hours, but that's because there was no documentation, so
I had to re-do a few things and re-scan a couple things as well.

	Hope this helps.

			Sunil