Editor's review
iSpring Pro, PowerPoint add-in, is Flash content authoring tool. Generated Flash movies look the same as your PowerPoint presentations. You will get all advantages of Flash format such as compactness, easy distribution, streaming etc.
Pros: iSpring Pro converts standard PowerPoint presentations into flash movies. The package is a add on to the MS PowerPoint and adds a set of controls on the toolbar that are relevant to the conversion process. Converting to flash presents the advantages of using flash such as the presentation can be made available on different platforms. Being of reasonable size can be published on the web. Basically Flash format advantages of compactness, easy distribution, high compatibility with all browsers and operating systems become available for distributing the information more widely. The application itse3lf helps in this wide publishing. Mailing to someone, publishing to a website and distributing it to all and sundry can be done right from inside the application. There’s a portal sponsored by the publishers where the same can be shared with anyone. Complexity of the original presentation is not a factor and the conversion can take care of the existing animation effects, slide transitions, hyperlinks, embedded flash movies, audio and video clips into a Flash based movie.
Quick publish button takes care of everything and in a wizard like fashion converts the presentation automatically. One can choose to customize the conversion and set a lot of parameters to control the appearance and playback. There are several players one can choose from. You can add presenter information and company details including logo animation. You can manage web links, references, compression modes, size and scale of Flash presentation. Various output types give you a choice of your Flash presentation composition a set of separate files for each PowerPoint slide or a solid Flash file, .EXE or a .ZIP file. The application can create the necessary HTML code that can embed the presentation into a web page; your company website or your blog page.
Cons: Nothing adverse noticed.
Overall: A very nice package that’s easy to use yet powerful. This rates a 4 star category.
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