NEW: The public beta of SoftMaker Presentations 2007 is now available as a free download.
This year, we will add a completely new application to our product portfolio: SoftMaker Presentations, the SoftMaker alternative to Microsoft PowerPoint – fully compatible, yet easier to use and much less expensive.
SoftMaker Presentations lets you create any kind of presentation, from simple school projects to complex business presentations. You can show your presentations as slide shows, export them as pictures, or pass them on as PowerPoint files.
You can add all kinds of AutoShapes and format them with a full repertoire of graphical variations. Not only that: You can also animate objects as you like, set up stunning transitions between slides, insert movies or sound files, and create interactive slide shows that can be navigated with pushbuttons. All functions are fully compatible with Microsoft PowerPoint but easier to use.
Comes with numerous design templates.
SoftMaker Presentations comes with more than 40 attractive design templates: With a simple mouse click, a complete presentation changes from classic or elegant to fancy and colorful, and back. The built-in designs browser lets you quickly find a matching design for each of your presentation projects.
Some of the design templates shipping with Presentations. Click to enlarge
Also shipping with SoftMaker Presentations is a large collection of picture bullets and other design elements that let you quickly achieve visually pleasing results.
Picture bullets. Click to enlarge
Color schemes are another feature that makes your work much easier. With a few mouse clicks you can easily recolor a complete presentation – and SoftMaker Presentations takes care of matching the colors.
One single command converts the left presentation to the right one.
If you open a PowerPoint file, all existing color schemes are completely retained. The same goes for saving – something that some competing products don't manage to achieve.
Put your presentation in motion: Animations and transitions
SoftMaker Presentations offers a wide range of objects that you can insert in your presentations: text frames, tables, pictures in a large variety of file formats, AutoShapes, freehand drawings, images from your scanner or digital camera, OLE objects, even sound files and movies.
You can animate each of these objects. If you want to put your presentation in motion, simply select one or more animation effects among the huge list of effects that SoftMaker Presentations provides – SoftMaker Presentations offers all animations that you know from Microsoft PowerPoint.
Furthermore, you can add transition effects that appear when going from one slide to the next. SoftMaker Presentations offers a wide range of effects here as well.
SoftMaker Presentations lets you structure your presentations through its built-in outliner. It looks similar to the one in TextMaker, but is tightly linked to the slides: if you change text in the outliner, the corresponding slide is updated on-the-fly and vice-versa.
You can sort slides in the "mini sorter" as well as in the regular full-screen sorter. The mini sorter appears to the left of the current slide, the full-screen sorter occupies the whole application window.
The slide sorter. Click to enlarge
Conclusion: With SoftMaker Presentations you will receive a powerful, compatible, and affordable presentation graphics program.
SoftMaker Presentations is your competent partner for all types of presentations.
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