SoftMaker Presentations 2008 for Linux SoftMaker Presentations 2008 is the brand new presentation graphics program in SoftMaker Office 2008 – fully compatible with Microsoft PowerPoint, 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. 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, 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 included in Presentations Also shipping with SoftMaker Presentations is a large collection of picture bullets that let you quickly achieve visually pleasing results.   Color schemes switch colors with the flick of a key 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. Blue color scheme     Red color scheme If you open a PowerPoint file, all existing color schemes are preserved. The same goes for saving – something that not all competing products 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, etc.. You can animate each of these objects. If you want to put your presentation in motion, simply select one or more animation effects from the huge list of effects that SoftMaker Presentations provides – SoftMaker Presentations offers all the 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.   Sort, arrange, structure The slide sorter 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.   Your competent partner for presentations With SoftMaker Presentations you receive a powerful, compatible, and affordable presentation graphics program. SoftMaker Presentations is your competent partner for all types of presentations.   Features Files and printing Direct document exchange with SoftMaker Presentations for Windows, Pocket PCs, and Windows CE Seamless document exchange with Microsoft PowerPoint 97, 2000, XP, and 2003 as well as PowerPoint for Macintosh Read and write PowerPoint files (.pps and .ppt) with all animations, slide transitions, color schemes, etc. preserved Create PDF files directly from SoftMaker Presentations Print and create PDF files with slides, outlines, handouts, and notes Export entire presentations as collections of images Designing Numerous attractive design templates give you impressive results fast. Each design comes with many matching color schemes. Create your own color schemes and switch between them instantaneously. Pre-defined slide layouts let you rearrange slide contents with a mouse click. All layouts have generic placeholders that can be filled with text, graphics, or tables, as required. Sophisticated master page concept (allows global changes on all slides simultaneously) Many graphical bullets included    Animations and slide transitions Hundreds of object and text animations available Ready-made animation schemes that animate entire presentations at once Many attractive slide transitions – completely compatible with PowerPoint Drawing and graphics Insert images in all common formats Draw directly on the slide TextArt gallery for impressive type effects (compatible with WordArt) AutoShapes (compatible with Microsoft's AutoShapes) Tables with many advanced formatting options Flexible output Flexible customization of slide shows Interactive presentation of slide shows with virtual pen and highlighter Automated presentations without a speaker (kiosk mode) Use notes as an aid to the speaker Handouts for the audience    Managing and outlining Built-in interactive outliner: Editing text in the outliner changes the slides simultaneously – and vice versa Easily sort and manage slides with the practical mini sorter and full-screen sorter. Extras Fully Unicode-enabled Spell checking in 17 languages Hyphenation in 33 languages Thesaurus in 10 languages Menus and dialogs are available in English, German, French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Hungarian, Russian, Bulgarian, Turkish, Chinese, and Japanese Free-of-charge technical support System requirements Any Linux for PCs with glibc 2.2.5 or higher, X Window system with any Window Manager. 64 MBytes of RAM.   Order: Please click on one of the links below for ordering and eligibility information regarding software in SoftMaker's educational program:   Order site license for schools   Order license for teachers   Order license for students and pupils   Order site license for university chairs Back to overview