Read the Indezine review of Rich Chart Builder.
Author: Geetesh Bajaj
Product/Version: PowerPoint
Introduction
About Rich Chart Builder
Download and Installation
Using Rich Chart Builder
Pricing and Support
Conclusion
Probably the only thing more boring than text-filled slides is to endure a series of slides with figures in tables -- something that looks like a screenshot of an Excel spreadsheet! With something like this, it would almost be a challenge to create a captivating PowerPoint presentation that keeps the audience sticking to their chairs. And the most obvious solution is to use more media elements but it's not easy to create animated charts that show figures more intuitively.
And since PowerPoint's version of animated charts are so passé, you might want to create your charts in another program and then bring them inside PowerPoint -- Rich Chart Builder, the product I am reviewing can help.
BackRich Chart Builder is from Blue Pacific Software, a company based in Portugal, Europe that creates Flash oriented rich media tools. Their other products include Rich Chart Server, Turbine Video Encoder, etc. You can learn more about these products and download a free trial version of Rich Chart Builder from their site (link no longer exists).
You can also check out some Flash SWF charts with animation at this online gallery (link no longer exists).
Rich Chart Builder creates interactive and animated charts, with different templates and styles of charts to choose from like 3D, shaded chart styles, etc. It allows to add audio narration and even allows to publish the charts into Flash SWF, PowerPoint PPT, PDF and JPG
My contact at Rich Chart Builder for this review was Manuel Fernandes - thank you, Manuel.
BackDownload the installer from the link given above, run the setup routine and follow the instructions. You'll end up with an Rich Chart Builder program group in your Windows Start menu (see Figure 1 below).
Figure 1: Rich Chart Builder in your Start menu
Rich Chart Builder creates interactive, animated charts that can be published to different formats including Flash SWF movies. Follow these steps to create a quick chart using Rich Chart Builder.
Also, the PDF and PowerPoint publish options are only available in the Professional edition of Rich Chart Builder (see next section).
BackRich Chart Builder has two versions the standard version coasts $95.00 -- and the professional version is for $225.
Support options include email support, a searchable knowledge base, and a help manual which can be downloaded from their site.
BackFor what it does, Rich Chart Live is a very capable product. I do wish they had better Excel support so that I could import Excel data, or maybe even a small icon on an Excel toolbar that let me choose the data source.
That grouse aside, Rich Chart Builder is something that will make your PowerPoint slides come alive with dynamic, animated charts that are so much more interesting than normal PowerPoint charts.
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