Most of this site is catered towards the PC and PowerPoint user — because most of the presenting world is so-equipped. Nevertheless, there is another important group out there . . . Mac users — and this group is sure to be impressed with a PowerPoint alternative called ShowReal.

What is ShowReal?

ShowReal is a presentation software program for the Macintosh that enables you to create slick, professional presentations. ShowReal works like a digital slide viewer, letting you bring together folders full of different kinds of media with one command and then combining them into a single presentation. ShowReal even contains powerful editing features that allow you to change the order of slides or other presentation objects. You can create a thoroughly professional presentation in just a few minutes, using pictures, animation, interactive multimedia, and full-screen, full-motion video.

How does ShowReal Work?

Creating Presentation Is As Simple or Complex As You Desire

• You can build a presentation containing up to 127 slides! You can import a wide range of file types including PICT, JPEG, TIFF, Photoshop™, PNG, BMP, GIF, PowerPoint™ scrapbook files, QuickTime™ movies including MPEG, QuickTimeVR files, Director Projector™ files, and Flash Projector™ files. You can import existing PowerPoint presentations in their original sequence. You can also scale presentations to fit every size of monitor — this is a HUGE feature!
• ShowReal also packs some visual punch too. You can create layered slides with a background (color or image), foreground (image, movie, sound, or application), and type on the top layer. ShowReal even comes with 200 specially designed backgrounds if you don't want to create one of your own.
• You can edit your slides quite easily. You can even make changes to more than one slide at once. Preview your presentations at any time while you create them.
• You can set up timing and transitions. Set the duration between slides to create autoplay presentations. Choose from seventeen transition effects between slides.

Running Presentations is a Breeze

• Navigating through presentations is accomplished just as it is in PowerPoint: one mouse click to advance a slide, etc. You can even jump to any point within a presentation edit window by using the "skip to slide" feature. You can switch between open presentations using a simple pop-up menu.
• You can also run presentations automatically or loop them to run unattended.
• Just like PowerPoint you can save a presentation as a self-launching file to distribute on disk or over the Internet. You can also save PC versions of presentations.

Unique Benefits of ShowReal

• ShowReal uses award winning QuickTime technology from Apple™ to provide state of the art graphics and multimedia capabilities.
• ShowReal can open applications LIVE — so there is almost no limit to the content that can be included and demonstrated in a single presentation.

Free Download

You can download a trial version of ShowReal to test on your own. Go to www.showreal.co.uk.

System Requirements

Macintosh 68040 or faster, Power Macintosh recommended Macintosh OS 7.5.3. or greater 16 MB available memory