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- What is Authorware Professional?
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- 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.
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- Authorware technology is based on these four building blocks:
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- • 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.
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- • 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.
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- • 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.
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- • Interactivity--High levels of interactivity enable authors and end-users
- to interact with and manipulate any portion of the display to get immediate
- feedback.
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- 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!
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- 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!
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- 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.
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- Please take some time and have fun--we know you’ll be pleased with the
- process and the results!
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- What’s included in this package
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- • 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.
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- • 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.
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- • 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.
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- • 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.
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- System requirements
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- Software License
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- Trademarks
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- 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.
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- Copyright © 1992 Macromedia. All rights reserved.
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