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NEW: SoftMaker Presentations 2008 for Linux
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NEW: SoftMaker Office 2008 for
Linux has been released and is available for purchase. |
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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.
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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. |
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SoftMaker Office 2008 for Linux
Customers in the U.S. and Canada: US$ 79.95
Upgrade from an older version of SoftMaker
Office, TextMaker, or PlanMaker:
only € 39.95 | $49.95
Sidegrade from SoftMaker Office 2008 for
Windows or Pocket PCs:
only € 29.95 | $39.95
Bundle offer:
SoftMaker Office 2008
for Linux and Windows
Customers in the U.S. and Canada: US$ 99.95
Upgrade from an older version of SoftMaker
Office, TextMaker, or PlanMaker:
only € 49.95 | $59.95 |
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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.
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Blue
color scheme |
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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
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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.
Free trial software download
You can download a trial version of SoftMaker Office 2008 for Linux
free of charge here. |
Features
Files and printing
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Direct document exchange with SoftMaker Presentations
for Windows, Pocket PCs, and Windows CE |
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Seamless document exchange with Microsoft
PowerPoint 97, 2000, XP, and 2003
as well as PowerPoint for Macintosh |
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Read and write PowerPoint files (.pps and .ppt) with
all animations, slide transitions, color
schemes, etc. preserved |
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Create PDF files directly from SoftMaker Presentations |
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Print and create PDF files with slides, outlines,
handouts,
and notes |
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Export entire presentations as collections of
images |
Designing
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Numerous attractive design templates give you
impressive results fast. |
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Each design comes with many matching color schemes. |
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Create your own color schemes and switch between them instantaneously. |
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Pre-defined slide layouts let you rearrange
slide contents with a mouse click. |
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All layouts have generic placeholders
that can be filled with text, graphics, or tables, as required. |
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Sophisticated master page concept (allows
global changes on all slides simultaneously) |
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Many graphical bullets included |
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Animations and slide transitions
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Hundreds of object and text animations available |
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Ready-made animation schemes that animate
entire presentations at once |
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Many attractive slide transitions –
completely compatible with PowerPoint |
Drawing and graphics
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Insert images in
all common formats |
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Draw directly
on the slide |
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TextArt gallery for impressive type effects
(compatible with WordArt) |
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AutoShapes (compatible with Microsoft's AutoShapes) |
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Tables with many advanced formatting options |
Flexible output
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Flexible customization of slide shows |
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Interactive presentation of slide shows with virtual
pen and highlighter |
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Automated presentations without a speaker (kiosk mode) |
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Use notes as an aid to the speaker |
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Handouts for the audience |
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Managing and outlining
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Built-in interactive outliner:
Editing text in the outliner changes the slides simultaneously –
and vice versa |
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Easily sort and manage slides with the practical mini
sorter and full-screen sorter. |
Extras
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Fully Unicode-enabled |
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Spell checking in 17 languages |
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Hyphenation in 33 languages |
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Thesaurus in 10 languages |
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Menus and dialogs are available in English, German,
French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Hungarian, Russian,
Bulgarian, Turkish, Chinese,
and Japanese |
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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. |
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