Graphic Presentations Contents: -----Multimedia Programs -----Business Charting -----Slide Show Programs -----Other ======================== -----Multimedia Programs [ANI_THIS] AnimateThis 1.0 (Williams, Gregory and Patricia Y.; $5) is an easy way to animate graphics. The program allows you to capture a series of graphics screen and show them in succession at high speed. The high speed is accomplished by combining the separate graphics files into one large file. Sample files are included (although they are in colors difficult to view on our system) and the effect is very good. [MVPSHAR] Music, Voice & Pictures 1.0 (Data Assist, Inc.; $35) is a command language for creating graphics slide-shows with speech, digitized sounds, and synthesized music on sound cards. [MM1, MM2, MM3, MM4] Multimedia 1 1.1 (Creative Software Engineering Inc. ASP; $59) allows you to mix human speech, special effects, and music with high resolution graphics to create customized presentations, tutorials, advertisements and much more. Sound plays through the PC's speaker. The program features support for GIF, PCX, TIFF and TARGA image files; motion and screen capture capabilities; integrated development editor; image processing functions; Sound Blaster support; mouse support and more. Requires 1 meg of disk space and VGA. [MULTIM1, MULTIM2] MultiMedia Maker 2.09 (DareWare Inc., reg. fee: $79) allows you to create custom presentations, advertising, etc. which can contain human speech, music, sound effects and high resolution images. A detailed and colorful demonstration is included. Requires VGA graphic card a hard drive, and a Sound Blaster compatible sound card. [PCXSS] PCX SuperShow (P C WEST; $95) lets you create customized screen presentations using graphics in PCX file format. It features multiple screen fades and seques, kaleidoscope screen effects, circle and box drawing, special effects, support for digitized voices and music with Sound Blaster and compatible cards, PC speaker music and sound, text display using customized and computer fonts, border and screen clearing effects and more. An impressive demo is included. Requires 512K, CGA or better, and 1 meg of free disk space. [SNDSHOW] SoundShow (BC Design; $0) is a tutorial on how to create professional looking slide presentations using Quattro Pro's sound and slide transition effects. It includes 10 sound files, an example slide show, and detailed explanations. Quattro Pro 3+ required. -----Business Charting [ADKINS] Adkins Graphics System (Adkins Enterprises; $50) is a collection of programs that allow you to develop and maintain graphics charts. You can create several types of charts including Pareto, Line, Bar, and Time Line. Requires a hard drive. [CGA_SCRN] CGA Screen Designer (Coughlan, Gene; $15) is a data graphing program with many drawing functions included. The eight graph types include three-dimensional bar graphs and pie charts. Drawing functions include text insertion, line, box, and circle drawing, and numeric keypad driven drawing and erasing. Slide shows can be produced, and you can create macros to automate the use of the program. You can choose either wide or narrow characters, and printing can be done on either 9-pin or 24-pin dot matrix printers. Also included is an ASCII text editor which will let you embed pictures into printed output, create banners, and create or edit simple ASCII files of up to 1,600 lines. [CHART_UN] Charts Unlimited 2.0 (Graphware, Inc.; $45) is a graphics program with a user interface similar to Lotus 1-2-3. Charts are drawn on a large worksheet that is 256 columns wide up to 1000 rows long. Just as the screen in 1-2-3 is a window on a much larger spreadsheet, the screen in CU is window on a large graphics worksheet, but in CU, the worksheet can be shrunk so that you can view all of it at once. Thirty-six Objects, including various geometric shapes and bar graph designs, can be displayed, moved, stretched, shrunk and replicated on the worksheet. There are also thirty-six Symbols available, ranging from math symbols to flow chart arrows. You can also create your own custom symbols. With these objects and symbols, it is easy to create floorplans, flow charts, organization charts, electronic circuits designs and more. Text can be entered anywhere on the worksheet as lowercase, uppercase or bold face characters and text files from spreadsheets and word processors can be imported into a CU graphics worksheet. A chart can be printed on most dot matrix printers either horizontally or vertically and in many sizes due to a magnification feature that can expand a chart up to 100 times. A printer buffer is provided to facilitate printing of a chart while simultaneously creating or editing a chart. [DOCA] DOCA (GoldPax Software; $35) is a drawing program designed to allow creation of flowcharts, organization charts, etc. [EGA_SCRN] EGA Screen Designer (Coughlan, Gene; $15) See CGA_SCRN. [EPG] Easy Presentation Graphics (Brown Bag Software; $295) transforms your numerical spreadsheet data in colorful charts and graphs. There are 12 different types of graphs including pie, area, bar, deviation chart, doughnut, line, percentage and more. It will import WKS, WK1, DIF, SYLK, and ASCII data. It contains an internal spreadsheet, supports over 200 printers, plotters and lasers. There is also a pictograph symbol generator. This is a crippled version which will not save a file to disk. [EXPGRAPH] ExpressGraph (Expressware Corporation ASP; $49) is a fast, colorful, feature-filled, and easy to use data graphing program. It offers you a choice of about a dozen different graph formats. [FLODRAW] FloDraw 2.25 (Freund, George ASP; $25-$38) is a flowchart generating program and symbol-oriented drawing program. The ease with which it can handle symbols makes it ideal for flowcharts, organizations charts, system diagrams and more. Automatic generation of arrows between symbols is also included. It comes with several symbol libraries including a flowchart symbol library, an HIPO symbol library, and an electric symbol library. New symbols can be designed, saved, and added to existing libraries or combined in new libraries. Other features include two large font sizes for page headings fonts; a selection of two styles and sizes of arrowheads; a tutorial; and most welcome of all - additional printer support for the Epson MX/FX/LQ printers, Toshiba P321/341/351 and HP Laserjet Plus/II, support for wide carriage printers, and customized special characters. Flodraw files can be converted to standard PCX format, and you can also convert PCX files to Flodraw format for use in other programs. A library of 3-D flowchart and computer symbols is included. [GRAPHER2] Grapher2 (Stone, Lawrence; $49) is an excellent business graphing program. It will draw bar chart, stacked column chart, line chart, pie chart, and exploded pie chart in 640 x 200 CGA resolution. It can draw up to 24 bar charts, 48 pie charts, 24 exploded pie charts, 2 stacked column charts and 2 line charts for each data table. It will import SYLK files from programs such as Multiplan and Excel, and DIF files from programs like 1-2-3. It will save a "snapshot" of graphs to disk. It supports all dot matrix graphics printers. This is among the easiest to use of any of the shareware business graphics programs we have tested. [GRAPHIT] GraphIt Plus (KYRAKO Software; $20) creates point, line, bar, stacked bar, and pie charts. The graph picture can be saved to a PCX file, and text can be added anywhere on the graph. Other features include easy manipulation of fonts and colors, exploding pie slices, slide show presentation, support for over 75 printers, and more. Requires 512K, EGA/VGA, and a hard disk. [GRAPHTM] Graph Master 1.5 (Mitchell, Tim; $16) lets you graph monthly data. You can keep a five-year history in 20 different categories. It can be used to show Profit, Mileage, Bills, etc. [KWIKGRAF] KwikGraf (Elliott, Alan C. ASP; $35) allows you to print graphic plots, create pie charts, pictograms, bar charts, histograms and scatterplots. It works well with dBase. You can even create a graph from DOS or from a set of graphs and displays from a command file. [MINDCHRT] Mind Chart (Mind Over Matter Systems; $50) is a menu oriented data charting program that supports the following chart types: line, surface, scatter, centered bar, offset bar, step, pie, stacked bar and Gantt. Charts may be displayed in any of nine screen windows (up to four at once). Features include user-defined scaling, axis parameter options, grid construction, description positioning, pixel spacing, text size, color and pattern selection, pattern creation, display mode, pie slice explosion, and bar width modification. Chart data may be entered directly in row and column format or imported from ASCII files. Mind Chart also provides a drawing utility with which the user can enhance charts, create logos, or produce freehand drawings using the cursor control keys. In the drawing mode, you can change colors, choose patterns, paint areas, create arcs, boxes, circles, ellipses, and lines, draw unique figures, change pixel movement distances, display text, save and recall screen images. For presentation purposes, Mind Chart provides a slide show feature which provides for manual or automatic screen display of previously saved charts and drawings from screen image and sketch files referenced in user constructed carrousels. [ORGCHRT] ORGChart (Lee, Jerming; $20) creates an organization chart with boxes and lines from a file containing the organization, saves it to a file, and optionally prints it. The input file is very easy to create with any editor or word processor that can save in straight text. The levels of the organization are indicated by the number of spaces indented. [POLYMAPS] Polymaps (Curtin, Tom; $39-$88) is a complete geo-information system you can use for mapping data by state or use to create your own geographical maps. It will output the maps to 640x200 video, Epson compatible printers, or HP plotters. A wide range of controls is given over the output format, and Polymaps will plot pie, bar, line, scatter, and other charts as well. [PRONTO] Prontograph (CSI Design Group; $15-$30) is a business graphics or data plotting program. It draws bar, line, x/y, and pie charts, stacked bar, hi-lo graphs and lets you select from many different patterns to fill in the bar and pie charts. Although the author says that you might not need to first read the on-disk documentation to run the program, the use of some of the most important features (write & paint) are not obvious unless you read the docs first. [REDWOOD] Redwood Draw (Redwood Technology; $40) makes charts and graphs from data stored in ASCII files. (It is not a drawing program.) It also displays slide shows and cycling shows; makes text slides or briefing charts; prints on laser and dot matrix printers; fits and smooths data and optionally creates PCX and TIFF files. The input data files are straightforward and easy to create. Requires EGA/VGA. -----Slide Show Programs [CINEMA] Cinema 1.0 (Alchemy Mindworks, Inc.; $35) is a slide show program for image files. It allows you to set up complex sequences of images by creating script files in a very simple programming language. The program supports a wide variety of image file types. [EGASLIDE] EGA-Slide is a slide show program for EGA-Paint picture files. The sample pictures on the disk are beautiful full-color pictures. [FLICKER] Flicker 2.21 (Brian J. Dooley; $25) is a slide show program. It comes with a screen capture utility for medium resolution (CGA) graphics, or you can generate screens with BASIC's BSAVE command. [GRASP] Grasp (Microtext Industries; $50) can be used to create and run animated graphics demonstrations, tutorials, and presentations. It comes with a screen capture utility for medium resolution (CGA) graphics, or you can generate screens with BASIC's BSAVE command. The author can no longer be reached at the address provided in the documentation. [IMAGEPRO] Image Pro and Talking Slide Show (Creative Multimedia Software Inc.; $34) Image Pro is a fast image processor for viewing GIF, PCX, PIC, TIFF and TARGA graphic files. You can view, scale, convert, clip, change brightness, change contrast, dither and print images to a dot matrix or laser printer. Talking Slide Show combines a digitized human's voice, music and special effects with high resolution images to create presentations, tutorials, demos and more. Requires 512K memory, a hard drive and EGA/VGA. [NEOSHOW] NeoShow 2.0a (NeoSoft Corp., reg. fee: $40) combines PCX and GIF images into effective presentations. [NSPRO] NeoShow PRO 2.0a (NeoSoft Corp., reg. fee: $95) combines PCX and GIF images into effective presentations. [PF_PRES] PF Presents (Smetana, Rob W.; $53) is a desktop presentation system. It includes two programs, P-Screen, which is used to create and save screens, and PFP, which will display them in like a slide show. PFP allows interactive branching based on user selection. Special effects which can be added include animation, sound, exploding windows and loops. Library files can store up to 100 full or partial screens and are indexed for fast display. Features include Gosub/Return, the option to display true graphics images in addition to text mode screens. Those who need graphics capabilities now have it all. You can switch between graphics and text modes at will. Whether you display text or true graphics screens, you can take advantage of most other PFP options: menus, sound effects, timed slides, etc. Other features in the program include the F8 (Monochrome) option to let you see how screens will look when viewed in white on black, an option to load BSAVE files, bright- background screens, mouse support, and two companion programs: Capture and Manager. You can specify the order in which screens are loaded from libraries, 100 at a time. [RAINBOW] Rainbow-Land 4.01 (Latimer, Joey; $15) is a 16-color, 320x200 EGA/VGA graphics program for creating interactive animated art. Features include built-in help screens, user defined colors and shapes, and more. [SPLITE1, SPLITE2] Show Partner Lite (Brightbill-Roberts & Company ASP; $79) lets you develop lively, animated screen show presentations and demonstrations. Modules include a presentation script editor, a slide show editor, screen capture programs for both DOS and Windows, a graphics editor and a royalty-free runtime module. [STORYTEL] Storyteller 1.0 (Alchemy Mindworks, Inc.; $35) allows you to create interactive and graphical reports, manuals, letters, and stories. You can create electronic documents of any size which contain a mixture of text and graphics. The text must be created with a word processor, and the graphics must be PCX files. [SS4] SuperShow IV (PC West; $95) lets you create graphics presentations with PCX and GIF files. It features multiple screen fades and segues, kaleidoscope screen effects, text display using customized and computer fonts, border and screen clearing effects, sound, pop-up windows, and full palette control. Other features include a menu-driven automatic script generator/editor, Sound Blaster support, custom screen fonts, animated logo effects, and much more. Requires 348K and a EGA, VGA or SVGA graphics card. -----Other [DWRK11] Demo Workshop 1.1g (P2 Enterprises ASP; $65) creates demo and tutorial programs. It uses actual screens recorded during execution of the program being presented. The recording can be edited with the presentation editor like editing a movie. You can cut and resequence scenes, add pop-up menus, special effects, text windows and more. It creates an EXE file as output. [MUGSHOT] MugShot 1.1 (San Mateo, Carlo; $0) is a simple version of the IdentiKit type program used by police departments to put together pictures of suspects based on witnesses descriptions. This program is pretty limited in capabilities, but is still fun to play with. [TITLITE] Title-Lite 3.0 (Castle Computers; $25) creates attractive VGA 640x480 title screens using a large, high-res font on a dramatic blended color background. [TITLE4] Title 4.2 (Castle Computers, reg. fee: $20) displays text with a large font on a VGA 640x480 16-color graphics screen. Screens can then be photographed as 35mm slides, prints, or transferred to video tape. Colors can be specified and text formatting controlled.