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The PowerPoint Ezine - 27
by Geetesh Bajaj
Contents
iCreate does PowerPoint to Flash, online delivery and more...
Focus on Carte Blanche
Quick News
CorelDRAW Files: Faking Filters in PowerPoint
Insert PowerPoint in Flash Easily
Learning About Copyrights
Events and Seminars
iCreate does PowerPoint to Flash, online delivery
and more...
I have been working with Latitude Communications' new iCreate
2 product for a month now and my first impressions provide
it with a positive verdict.
iCreate started as a PowerPoint to Flash conversion tool from Wanadu,
a company that was later acquired by Latitude, the leading provider
of integrated web and voice applications for the enterprise. Latitude's
award-winning MeetingPlace solution that enables real-time
collaborative meetings through web browsers, groupware applications
and telephones (PBX, cellular as well as IP phones) is particularly
well-placed to harness synergies emanating from using the iCreate
product within their broad concept.
Not surprisingly, Latitude has integrated the iCreate product
within its MeetingPlace framework to provide a complete value-added
solution that might strengthen the already firm existence that
MeetingPlace has in the web and voice conferencing market. That's
all the more significant since Microsoft acquired its chief
competitor PlaceWare a few months ago (PlaceWare has since
been relaunched as Microsoft Office Live Meeting).
Read the complete iCreate review
here...
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Focus on Carte Blanche
Carte Blanche is a PowerPoint add-in from London, UK based Showcase
Solutions that lets you link the colors in your PowerPoint
maps and diagrams to values in a spreadsheet. Then when the spreadsheet
data changes, you can update all the colors with a single click.
  
Martin Conradi, author of That
Presentation Sensation has been my contact at Showcase Solutions.
He says
Cartle Blanche can be used to look sales-by-region on a weekly
basis, or housing availability or election results... It was
initially developed for the housing authority of the London boroughs
who were spending about 10 hours a week recoloring maps based
on various parameters; it now takes them about 10 seconds. You
can even use it to play poker dice, using 5 shapes and a random
number generator.
You can download a 30 day trial of the product from the Showcase
Solutions site. Learn
more...
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Quick News
Microsoft has updated its Microsoft Office X for the Mac
suite - their Macintosh Business Unit announced three new editions
of Office X for Mac at new prices. The latest Mac product offerings
include Office v. X for Mac Professional Edition, Office v. X for
Mac Student and Teacher Edition, and Office v. X for Mac Standard
Edition. Along with the new Office v. X products, the Mac BU announced
that Virtual PC for Mac is now shipping under the Microsoft brand. Learn
more...
CrystalGraphics has extended its SuperSaver Combo 4 offer
until September 12th, 2003. The collection comprises 3D Titles,
Transitions, Templates, Music and PowerPictures for US$299. That
is over 50% off the price of buying the same products separately. More
info...
PowerPoint Live, being held at Tucson AZ from October 12
to 15, 2003 is a three-day event that includes seminars, workshops,
hands-on technical support and keynote addresses covering virtually
every topic of interest to the PowerPoint user community. More
info...
Canto Cumulus is among the world's best known digital asset
management (DAM) tools. So, what is DAM? DAM involves cataloging,
access and retrieval of digital media assets. Such media assets
could be pictures, sounds, movies, documents and even presentations. Read
more...
Indezine has a new article on creating TIF files in
Photoshop with alpha channels that can be used within PowerPoint. Learn
more...
You can now syndicate content from Indezine for free to
mirror at your site or use in any other mutually acceptable way
- learn more...
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CorelDRAW Files: Faking Filters in PowerPoint
Microsoft Office imports CorelDRAW files only upto CorelDRAW version
5 - if you have an illustration, logo or drawing from a newer CorelDRAW
version, here's a tip that can help. You'll need to have Jasc's Paint
Shop Pro installed.
Here's how it works:
- PowerPoint's native CDR import accepts CorelDRAW version 5
files - the import filter is called Cdrimp32.flt and is located
in the Program Files/Common Files/Microsoft Shared/GrphFlt/ folder.
Just rename Cdrimp32.flt to Cdrimp32.bak.
- Then copy Paint Shop Pro's CDR import filter (it's in the same
folder as Paint Shop Pro's executable and is called Cdr32.flt)
and paste it in Program Files/Common Files/Microsoft Shared/GrphFlt/
- Rename Cdr32.flt to Cdrimp32.flt.
- Import a CorelDRAW drawing into PowerPoint - you'll find that
you can import version 8 drawings!
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Insert Flash in PowerPoint Easily
These tools allow you to insert Flash content inside PowerPoint
using a menu command.
Free Tools
- rChart puts
the insert Flash capability in its trial version - and you can
insert any Flash file - the trial for its insert Flash routine
never expires.
- SWF
Point Player even include a free
Flash player.
- Download the free iCreate
add-in and it will insert Flash content for free.
Commercial Tools
- NETGUI's
PowerFlash inserts Flash into PowerPoint for $19.95 - it
also includes 200 SWF animations.
- Shyam's
Toolbox inserts Flash files into PowerPoint and does so
much more at $49.95
Learning about Copyrights
Dave Paradi has authored an article for Indezine on using
copyrighted content in your presentation.
Many presenters use copyrighted material in their presentations,
but not everyone understands how to use it properly. This overview
is intended to help you identify when you may want to seek more
advice on using a copyrighted piece of work. This is not intended
to be a legal opinion and you are advised to seek your own legal
opinion before you proceed in these areas. Having said that (for
legal disclaimer purposes), here are some areas to keep in mind.
Read this overview by
Dave Paradi...
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Events & Seminars
Winning Presentations Seminar
September 24 and 25, 2003
Boston, USA
Claudyne Wilder, Wilder Presentations
http://www.wilderpresentations.com/
PowerPoint Live
October 12 to 15, 2003
Tucson, Arizona, USA
Rick Altman, R Altman Digital Consulting
http://www.pptlive.com/
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Credits
During the preparation of this issue of the PowerPoint Ezine,
I received assistance, content or feedback from Dave Paradi, Lora
Lee, Martin Conradi, Michael Kaye and TAJ Simmons (all in alphabetical
order). I would like to use this platform to thank them for their
help.
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