Astound for Windows 95v5.0

Its interface has the familiar look and feel of Microsoft Office (tm), thereby minimizing the learning curve for most software users. But once you click the "Play" button, all similarities end; you'll be amazed as text automatically slides on-screen, bullets animate and chart segments grow and spin into place. And since Astound can import all your existing Microsoft PowerPoint (tm) presentations, you can add multimedia flair and interactivity to all your presentations in seconds. Supplementing Astound's easy interface are over 100 pre-animated presentation templates and 1,800 pieces of clip media.

Multimedia effects (including animation, sound, video, and interactivity) can be applied to text, graphics, and charts automatically, all precisely synchronized with Astound's unique Timeline feature. Astound's free-form path animation feature allows you to move any object along a user-defined path of any shape. This path tool provides full control over any objects entry, pause, and exit timing and creates a true bezier line for greater editing power. It's the perfect way to emphasize important points for your audience.

Astound sets a new standard for interactive presenting. Any shape, picture, text block, or multimedia object can trigger "jumps" to other areas of a presentation, other applications, and even the World Wide Web.

You can output in any format, including as slides (including Autographix and other slide service bureaus), as self-running product demos, as information "kiosks", as speaker notes or handouts. And, once your presentation is complete, Astound's exclusive new Distribution Wizard lets you distribute your presentations on floppies, CD-ROM, via e-mail or through the Internet on the World Wide Web. It's amazing web publishing capabilities let you put your presentations on the Web, exactly as they were created, so that text appears just as defined, and graphics are precisely sized and placed, with hyperlinks maintained.