gsb@bach.caltech.edu (Suresha Guptha) (04/06/91)
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
schitre@euler.claremont.edu (04/07/91)
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
rashid@magnus.ircc.ohio-state.edu (Robert G Rashid) (04/08/91)
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 I have been using both PowerPoint, (Microsoft), and More 3.0, (Symantic). My preference leans strongly toward More. I find the ablility to use rules (like styles in Word) enables me to make global changes to slides easily. Also, when working on my plus at home, I can create a slide series, then format it for a color machine, even though I can't see the colors. Formatting is much more automatic in More, also. It will center titles, wrap text, and create continued slides with no intervention. The best part is that it will creat build slides in three different formats, allowing selective disclosure. When there is something that I really want done in PowerPoint, I can save my More slides in version 1 format and ship off to PowerPoint, but this usually takes some editing to get the final format just right. With More, the text entry is done in outline format, and it is a powerful outlining program. More also has a greater drawing ability within the program, and translators for reading other files (text or image). More also has a 'Chart Tutor' which allows you to set up your presentation with the program stepping you through the necessary steps in the proper order, avoiding format changes requiring resizing of text and graphics items. We have been outputting to a Lasergraphics slide imager, and both programs give excellent graduated backgrounds and fills. All in all, I find I only use PowerPoint to edit someone else's slides, or to get a beginner started quickly making slides. -- | Bob Rashid | Rashid.1@osu.edu | | College of Dentistry | 305 W. 12th Ave. | | The Ohio State University | Columbus, OH 43210 |