April 24, 2006 The user's view on FlashSpring Pro

By 3D2F.com

FlashSpring Pro. Presentations for Everywhere

Presentations - is a truly universal language for business communications. A rare lecture can be done with no presentation materials. Presentations - is the best way to promote nearly everything. OK, all above was commonplace, but what is not commonplace: we had no good instrument to make pretty presentations AND widespread them through e-mail, web-sites and other media. This is because PowerPoint (and other similar tools) creates presentation files, which are huge and require PowerPoint to view them (OK, the last versions formally can produce stand-alone presentation files, but those would be VERY huge and slow). Good format for Internet-ready presentations is Macromedia Flash, but making a presentation in Flash requires even more skills, than making it with PowerPoint. Where is the golden medium?

You see, I've said "we HAD no good instrument", but now we HAVE: FlashSpring Pro. This handy tool embeds itself into PowerPoint and allows converting any publication into Internet-ready Flash file. The software supports almost all PowerPoint features (sliding effects and animations, decorations, hyperlinks, and so on), and allows creating stand-alone exe-files, as well as .swf, which you can easily embed into your web-pages. As for .swf, the program can create either single file with the presentation or one file per slide. FlashSpring Pro can even add navigation buttons to your presentation.