If you are looking for a robust alternative to Microsoft PowerPoint — consider Presentation from Astound, a powerful business multimedia presentation software. Presentation contains many of the familiar PowerPoint features that make creating electronic functionality into its application — allowing you to save a presentation as HTML or Dynamic HTML — all with the click of a button. This means you can deliver multimedia over the web without plug-ins!

Basic Features

Nearly all Presentation features are point-and-click!

• Presentation uses an interface familiar to anyone who has used PowerPoint.






• Presentation provides a "QuickSet" tool that allows you to easily format any object or text.






• Presentation is equipped with nearly 2000 pieces of clip art and sounds to give your presentations a more unique look.
• Presentation comes with numerous wizards that make nearly every multi-step function a breeze. These include the Distribution Wizard, the Animation Wizard, the Quiz Wizard and the Media Manager.

Advanced Features

Presentation gives you incredible graphics and text handling capabilities — such as 3D text rendering, on-board image processing, and precise timeline handling for moving objects.

• You can add incredible action to your presentation with over 50 transition effects.
• You can animate graphics through point-and-click by using the path animation tool.
• You can make many objects truly interactive. For example, you create fully interactive image maps to presentations.
• You can add video to presentations and use the embedded Media Manager.

Advanced Applications

All of these features take web conferencing and online training to a new level!

• HTML/Dynamic HTML
  Presentation comes with easy-to-use wizards that allow you to create Dynamic or static HTML pages that can be posted on the web. And best of all, you don't need any plug-ins!



• Online training
  Presentation wizards also make creating online training a snap. These wizards allow you to create interactive multiple choice, Yes/No, and True/False questions. Of course, you can use all of the other interactive features (like animation, sound effects, etc.) in your training as well. Again, Presentation's output options mean you can output training to the web in Dynamic HTML.

For more information about this exciting software, visit www.astound.com for more details.

System Requirements

Microsoft Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP 40 MB hard disk space 16 MB RAM (24 MB RAM recommended) CD-ROM drive VGA display Windows-compatible sound card required for sound