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From: royer@savax.UUCP (tom royer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: HELP!!! --- Transparency Management
Message-ID: <767@savax.UUCP>
Date: 4 Aug 88 15:01:36 GMT
References: <3087@cs.utexas.edu>
Organization: Sanders Associates Inc., Nashua, NH
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In article <3087@cs.utexas.edu>, yvo@cs.utexas.edu (Yvonne van Olphen) writes:
> I am about to embark on a major project of creating three
> sets of (200 plus each set) transparencies.  I now have to
> decide what program to use to create and manage them.  The 
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> the Macintosh that will "manage" transparencies?  I've heard vaguely 
> of a program called "Cricket Presents."  Does anyone have any comments
> or suggestions for me?
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> Please send me e-mail at yvo@cs.utexas.edu (CSNET)---I don't get
> much of an opportunity to keep up with the volume of postings
> in this group.
> 
> 	---Yvonne

I don't know much about ``Cricket Presents'', but do know a lot about
Microsoft's PowerPoint -- I just received version 2.0 last week.

PowerPoint interfaces with a variety of drawing programs (for importing)
plus providing adequate drawing capabilities of its own.  It has text
processing which is more than adequate for transparancies.

Strongest points, though, are in slide management:
     - Provides template capability so that fixed background (borders,
       logos, dates, page numbers, etc.) are handled automatically.
     - Provides a ``slide sorter'' which allows presentation rearrangement
       by dragging slide images around using the mouse
     - Now supports color (even if you have a monochrome screen)
     - Allow several presentations to be open at once so that images can be
       copied from one to another
     - Can operate in 35mm or overhead formats (the aspect ratios are a bit
       different
     - Outputs to imagewriter, laserwriter, and (in a soon to be delivered
       revision -- I hope), the Gennigraphic 35mm film processor
     - Produces slide images, speakers notes (reduced version of the slide
       image with supportive text below it), and audience hardcopy (two,
       three, or six slide images per page)

I have been using it for about six months and am a completely satisfied
user.  (p.s.  I have no stake in Microsoft -- don't even like the company
very much -- but am a very satisifed user of PowerPoint).

-- 
Tom Royer              Sanders Associates, A Lockheed Company
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