#10 Present Slide Show

1989 · utility · application · MS-DOS · SML Services Inc. · MicroCom Systems

#10 Present, the sophisticated computer "slide" show facility. Color. CAMERA.COM 1838 Program to take snapshots of the current screen. COMPRESS.COM 1120 Compress BSAVE images to picture format. CSP.COM 23296 Resident color screen print program, use . EXPAND.COM 1015 Expand compressed pics to BSAVE format. PIC2RAS.COM 953 Convert Camera screen images to raster format. PREPARE.COM 5302 Program to prepare a "tray" of slides for viewing. RAS2PIC.COM 1086 Convert raster images to picture format. PRESENT.COM 8709 Present main program to display slides. DEMO 561 Demonstration control file. README.1ST 1107 Short introduction to Present. PRESENT.DOC 67547 Main documentation file for Present PREPARE.HLP 12288 Prepare help data file. PRESENT.HLP 3360 Present help data file. ????????.PIC 9999 Sample slides which comprise the included demo. Program Present. Hardware Color graphics. Software Dos 2.0 or later. To start Enter "PRESENT DEMO", then hit , then "+" to show slides. To end Hit . For help Read README.1ST, and PRESENT.DOC. Author SML Services Inc., 6095 River Chase Circle NW, Atlanta, GA 30328. Reg. fee $40. PRESENT is an advanced program used to create slide show presentations on a computer. These slide shows can then be used for training purposes, to demonstrate a product, or even to show the results of running some program on the display (rather than printing them out). Present includes the facilities to create individual slides (snapshots of the screen), create a tray filled with these slides and then play them back, either automatically (self running) or manually. The program which takes the snapshots, Camera, is installed in memory by entering "CAMERA" followed by an identifier under which the slides are to be stored. Text images can then be saved by hitting , if the screen is in graphics mode. To turn off Camera, enter "CAMERA" and this will toggle it off. After the desired slides have been taken, enter "PREPARE" followed by the name of the slide tray to create. At this point a list of picture files, ones with the .PIC extension, will be displayed. To add a slide to the tray move the highlight bar to the slide desired and hit "+". Once the slide has been added the dissolve type can be specified. The dissolve type determines how the slide will appear on the screen. Present supports twelve different dissolve types, ranging from the standard replace, to opening from the middle, and even fading in. The time the slide will be displayed during an automatically running show can also be modified at this time. To leave Prepare, hit . Finally, after a tray containing the created slides has been created, the slides are ready for display. Enter "PRESENT tray *" where "tray" is the name of the tray created using Prepare. This will set the presentation in automatic mode. At any time, the presentation can be interrupted and set in manual mode by hitting . When in manual mode, hit "+" to see the next slide, "-" to see the previous slide. To end the presentation, hit . Present is an extremely well implemented and thought out program. There are limitless ways in which it can be applied. Present is not limited to displaying either color graphics or text screens. Both screen modes can be utilized to create an effective presentation. Present uses the computer in an intelligent manner to provide slide shows which far Present does have some compatibility problems with other programs. If this appears to be the case, try removing all memory resident programs, rebooting and copying the program(s) of which you would like to make slides from into the same directory the resultant slides are being placed. Then start the Camera program, run subject program, and try making slides, all while in the same directory.