What is HyperBook?

   HyperBook is a general purpose multimedia tool that lets you store and
   organize text and graphics in any format. Your computerized "hyperbooks"
   can range from a few pages of informal text or graphics, to a complex,
   highly-structured database application. Whatever its application,
   HyperBook is very easy to use, and your hyperbooks are simple to create
   and modify.

   HyperBook lets you work with any kind of information - things that we
   call "Notes", "Buttons", "Pictures", "Drawings" and "Lists". These pieces
   of information ("objects") are placed onto the pages of a hyperbook,
   where you can reveal them by turning to any page. You can modify the
   objects on a page in many ways. For instance, you can move them about,
   change their size and copy them to other pages.

   Objects can also have "actions": pointing to an object with the mouse and
   clicking the left mouse button triggers the action for that object.
   Actions let you show pictures, display large amounts of text, reveal or
   hide other objects, turn to another page in a hyperbook, or run another
   program on the Amiga. You can even run ARexx-language programs that can
   control just about every aspect of a hyperbook.

   What does all of this let you do? As it turns out, many things that
   people do with their computer can be accomplished much more easily with
   HyperBook than with conventional methods, and HyperBook opens the door to
   a whole world of new applications as well. Best of all, HyperBook lets
   the average computer user create customized applications that could
   otherwise be created only by an expert programmer, or by a "power user"
   with an arsenal of expensive software products at his or her disposal.

   Here are a few of the infinitely many possible applications for
   HyperBook:

   · A "pictures" hyperbook can be created as an index to all your Amiga
     graphics, showing many scaled-down pictures on each page. You can
     browse through the pages to view the miniature pictures, and click on
     any picture to display the full-sized graphic.

   · A "black book" hyperbook could display a list containing all of your
     friends or business contacts. Clicking on any name turns to a page
     containing that person's name and address.

   · For children, HyperBook is an ideal way to create illustrated story
     books that can be easily enhanced with full-screen graphics and speech
     synthesis. Pre-drawn art work can be pasted in for extra realism.

   · You can create interactive instruction manuals that let students
     explore according to their own pace and their own interests. For
     example, a diagram of the human body could show and label the major
     organs; by clicking on any organ, additional text or a more detailed
     diagram could be displayed. Similar applications ideally suited for
     HyperBook are an Atlas, a "how it works" manual showing the parts of an
     automobile, a Mall or tourist attraction information display, etc.

   · HyperBook is ideal for specialized data bases, since each page can
     store not only text, but pictures and other information relating to a
     record in the database. This is ideal for things like keeping track of
     items in a collection, employee records, finds at an archeological
     site, or any data that requires freeform multimedia information
     storage.

   · HyperBook is the friendliest presentation tool available. When you need
     to combine text and graphics together in a presentation that "flows"
     interactively, you can put one together in minutes.

   HyperBook has many capabilities, but perhaps its most important feature
   is that it's easy to use, and even fun. Advanced features let you
   designing and create your "books" with just a few mouse moves. The power
   of programmability exists, but you can use HyperBook productively without
   ever learning a single command. Once you try it, you'll be hooked!


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