Read the Indezine review of PPTminimizer 4.
Author: Geetesh Bajaj
Product/Version: PowerPoint
Introduction
About PPTminimizer 4 and New Features
Download and Installation
Using PPTminimizer 4
Enterprise version for Servers
Pricing and Support
Conclusion
Working with large PowerPoint files is a serious problem, especially when you need to share these often through email. Although several programs allow you to convert your PowerPoint files to another non-editable file format like Flash SWF, that's not always a viable option, especially if you want to end up with both an editable and a smaller file.
A range of PowerPoint optimization programs lets you tackle this issue by compressing PowerPoint files without changing the editability or the file format. PPTminimizer 4, our review product is one of them.
PPTminimizer's new version 4 is a much improved version that has been just launched. You can find review of the previous version here.
BackPPTminimizer is from balesio, a German company that also creates several other products such as TurboDemo. You can download a free trial version of PPTminimizer 4 from their site.
PPTminimizer 4 is a new version of their office compression tool that now also does Word documents and has a Word add-in.
New features includes
Reduce the file size of Word and PowerPoint files by up to 98%
Keep the original file format - gives output as a new file with a suffix of (pptmnimizer)
You can choose between 4 different compression levels
Search Wizard to find all the PowerPoint presentations and Word documents on your system and network.
Add-ins for Microsoft Outlook, PowerPoint, Word and Windows Explorer
PPTminimizer Enterprise version for Servers: Compress and replace Word and PowerPoint files by optimized copies, free storage space, cut storage costs, save time.
My contact at PPTminimizer for this review was Jörg Gerczuk - thank you, Jörg.
BackDownload the installer from the link given above, run the setup routine and follow the instructions. You'll end up with an PPTminimizer program group in your Windows Start menu, as shown in Figure 1 below.
Figure 1: The PPTminimizer Start Menu Group
When you run it for the first time it will ask for your registration details (the serial number) -- alternatively, you can run the product in evaluation mode that allows you to do 12 free optimizations.
You can also find PPTminimizer 4 within the Add-Ins tab of the Ribbon in PowerPoint 2007 and Word 2007 (see Figure 2).
Figure 2: PPTminimizer 4 in the Add-Ins tab of the Ribbon in PowerPoint 2007
PPTminimizer 4 works in two ways:
As an add-in from within PowerPoint 2007
As a standalone product
When installed, follow these steps to compress a PowerPoint 2007 file using PPTminimizer's 4 standalone version.
PPTminimizer 4 Enterprise version is a server-capable version with the following features:
Optimize and replace Word and PowerPoint files not only on local drives but also on servers and networks.
Search Wizard finds all presentations and documents on the entire server.
Effective storage management -- immense storage space can be gained by replacing unnecessarily large PowerPoint and Word files by optimized copies.
Cut operative storage costs.
Developed for Windows Server.
Many corporates, SMEs, academic and governmental organizations already use PPTminimizer.
BackPPTminimizer 4 has two versions:
PPTminimizer 4 costs $39.95 for a single-user license
PPTminimizer 4 Enterprise costs $279.30 for a single Server.
Support is through email and phone, and a small online FAQ.
BackPPTminimizer 4.0 improves on the previous versions and has evolved as a capable product that works with PowerPoint and Word files. While it works with files from PowerPoint 2007 and earlier versions, it only works with Word 97-2003 files. According to the company, an upgrade will follow very soon to make this product comaptible with Word 2007 files.
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