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Authorware Professional for Mac
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About Authorware
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What is Authorware Professional?
Authorware Professional is the premier multimedia authoring tool
for learning and education. Its power and simplicity support more
effective authoring procedures and better interaction in both subtle
and bold ways.
Authorware technology is based on these four building blocks:
• Ease of use--Authorware’s object-oriented environment allows
non-programmers to develop applications without scripting.
Sophisticated icons (objects) enable users to develop interactive
applications without generating code.
• Media Integration--Authorware integrates text, graphics, animation,
sound and video into richly interactive documents. Authorware imports
content in standard formats into various icons, where it can be sequenced,
combined and edited in context all within the environment. Information
from databases can also be imported and exported.
• Platform Independence--Authorware runs on both Macintosh and
Windows. Files created on the Macintosh can be opened and edited
under Windows. All logic and content, including graphics, bitmaps,
animations, sounds, and variables are converted. Thus, an author can
design on a Macintosh and deliver on Windows PCs.
• Interactivity--High levels of interactivity enable authors and end-users
to interact with and manipulate any portion of the display to get immediate
feedback.
Authorware® Professional™ is a tool that does more than reduce the
time and effort necessary to build outstanding multimedia applications.
It provides the opportunity to use a development process that encourages
you to be creative, to explore alternative designs, and to consistently keep
the end user’s perspective in mind. Its direct manipulation capabilities allow
you to very quickly rework displays, instructions, exercises, and performance
criteria. But perhaps most important is that you won’t be working on paper,
you’ll be working on the medium that will carry your message--the computer!
By experimenting with the enclosed Working Model, you’ll experience our
Object Authoring™ environment, which encourages integrated design and
development. You can prototype alternate multimedia designs and interact
with them as an end user might, in less time than you could write the
specifications necessary for a programmer to implement just one approach!
With Authorware Professional, it’s effective to begin exploring your creative
ideas at the mouse and keyboard. We’ve included a First Try Tutorial with some
sound, graphics and movie files so you can experiment with the multimedia
capabilities of the software. We’ve also included some sample applications
that will show you the breadth of the product.
Please take some time and have fun--we know you’ll be pleased with the
process and the results!
What’s included in this package
• The Working Model software, a fully functioning version of the
complete Authorware Professional product, but geared for producing
small applications only. The Working Model software provides you with
everything you need to start creating your own multimedia applications
quickly and easily. It allows you to save sample applications containing
up to 50 icons.
• The First Try Tutorial, which you’ll use to assemble your own
multimedia application, complete with graphics, sound and animation.
We think this is the best way to evaluate Authorware’s simple yet powerful
authoring environment--by jumping right in and creating a multimedia application.
• Authorware Demo applications--We’ve included several short interactive
demos that will give you a flavor of how Authorware applications are
constructed. You can edit all of the Authorware files provided. The full
product provides a packaging process that creates a finished version of
your file, and supplies a separate program called RunAPM specifically for
delivering Authorware applications.
• Elements for creating your own applications--We’ve also included
elements you can use in your own multimedia creations: a variety of
graphics in PICT format, short “movies” of animated objects that you
can position anywhere on the screen, sample sound effects and music,
and various “models” (icon logic structures saved in a special format)
for loading and pasting into your applications.
System requirements
The Working Model itself is designed to run on nine-inch Macintosh screens
as well as on larger screens. Authorware supports up to 256 colors or gray
levels. For color, you’ll need a minimum of four megabytes of memory. A
hard disk with a high-density drive and about 3.5 megabytes of free disk
space is required.
The sample files on these disks, including the First Try Tutorial, are
designed for a Macintosh II family machine with a color monitor and at
least four megabytes of RAM.
Software License
You have the non-exclusive right to use the Authorware Professional
Working Model, if enclosed. You may make as many copies of the
Authorware software included on the disk and this documentation as
you wish, provided that you do not offer them for sale and provided
that you copy the copyright notices exactly as they appear on the
originals. You may not alter, decompile, disassemble, or reverse-engineer
the Authorware software, or create derivative works of the Authorware
software.
You may use the Authorware software to create applications of limited
size and scope as permitted by the software. You may demonstrate software
created with the Authorware software, but you may not package the software
for presentation within your institution or commercially unless you have
purchased Authorware Professional and have agreed to the provisions of a
separate Authorware Player Software License Agreement.
Trademarks
Authorware is a registered trademark, and Authorware Professional,
Object Authoring, and Productivity Library are trademarks of Macromedia.
Apple, the Apple logo, and Macintosh are registered trademarks of Apple
Computer, Inc. Microsoft is a registered trademark and Microsoft Windows
and Multimedia Extensions to Windows are trademarks of the Microsoft
Corporation. IBM is a registered trademark and IBM-PC and PS/2 are
trademarks of International Business Machines Corporation.
Copyright © 1992 Macromedia. All rights reserved.