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 Inform! is presentation software. You use it to create informative
presentations on any subject by combining text with graphics, digital
images, and digital audio and video files. It consists of three programs - a
presentation designer, a presentation viewer, and a presentation securer.
The presentation reviewer is freeware. So you can distribute it royalty free
with your presentations, even if you sell them.
You will be amazed at how quickly you will be producing your own high
quality interactive multimedia presentations!
And the price is impossible to beat - $49.00.
The degree of sophistication and professionalism you can achieve is a
function primarily of the sophistication and professionalism of the source
files you use.
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A partial list of what
you can make with it: |
Wedding albums
E-books
E-zines
Tutorials
Training modules
Photo albums
Product catalogs
Interactive novels
Encyclopedias
Information kiosks
Job descriptions |
Xmas cards
Multimedia letters
Technical papers
Repair procedures
Org charts
Genealogies
Advertisements
Flow charts
Term papers
Brochures
Newsletters |
Unique or hard to find features:
Inform! is not the only multimedia document authoring system. There are a
number of others available. Microsoft PowerPoint, CRE:8, and NeoBook are
among them.
Each one has features the others do not. PowerPoint lets you see thumbnails
of your slides, Inform! doesn't. NeoBook has a built in macro language,
Inform! doesn't, and neither does PowerPoint.
Inform! has a number of features the others don't. These are discussed
below, and we think you'll like what we have.
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Price: At $49.00, Inform!
is only about 1/3 the cost of CRE:8, NeoBook or PowerPoint.
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Work with multiple files:
Inform! lets you select, or
drag and drop multiple digital images to create multiple consecutive pages
with one image as background to each page. You can create a photo album in
seconds. Moreover, the page you drop your images on is used as a template
for all other pages created, so whatever objects you have on the first
page will also appear on all pages created.
You can also select or drag and drop multiple images to place multiple
images on the same page. The images are stacked on top of each other and
simply have to be moved to where you want them.
Say you have six or eight images you want to associate with entries in a
combo box. Just put a combo box on your page and drag and drop the
pictures on it. An entry for each picture is created using the file name
as the entry text and the picture is associated with it.
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No file left behind:
Inform! documents can contain ANY file – databases, word
documents, spread sheets, even programs. When accessed, a program is run,
or a file is opened in its own program.
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Outlines/indexes:
Inform! supports not one but multiple outlines and indexes.
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Retrieve all files used in a document:
Any file imported into your document can be saved back to disk in both the
document designer and the document reviewer.
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Unique audio/video capability: Import an
audio or video file once and use it many times throughout the document.
Play a segment on one page and the same or different segment on another
page. For each use of an audio or video file you can specify a segment or
scene to play, and a number of times to play it.
You can size and position video windows on your page. Play multiple files
at once – you can lower the volume of a video file and use a separate
audio file as narration or accompaniment
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Show digital images at size:
You can enlarge or shrink images you place on a page. But any time
you want, you can view the image at its actual size in its own window.
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Show background images only: When you use
an image as background to a page, you can place labels, text boxes, and
other images on top of it. But if you want your viewers to be able to see
the whole background picture without obstruction, you can turn this
feature on. Viewers can then press a key to make all foreground items
disappear. Press the key again, and foreground items are redrawn.
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Slide shows:
Slide shows can be set to repeat play indefinitely. Stops only when
Esc key is pressed. Last page in a slide show
can be made to force any other page in document to be displayed when slide
duration is reached.
Above makes it possible to have multiple slide shows accessed from a table
of contents on a single page. When finished, each slide show jumps back to
the table of contents page.
A video file’s duration (or the duration of a segment you have chosen) can
be used as the duration of the slide. This makes it possible to
incorporate videos or segments of a video into a slide show – You can thus
play different scenes of a video on different pages or slides in your
document, and display the video segments with accompanying text and
photos.
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Secure documents:
All documents are fully encrypted using the same Microsoft
encryption technology employed by Microsoft Access databases. Therefore,
disk sector editors and other software would not be able to make any sense
of your documents.
You can further protect documents with a user name and password. This
means your document cannot be opened by anyone else using the document
designer software. But it can be opened (but not modified or edited) by
any user of the reviewer software.
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