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- From: preissj@CLVAX1.CL.MSU.EDU ("J Preiss--Seq Anal")
- Newsgroups: bionet.software
- Subject: presentation graphics software
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- Date: 23 Dec 92 03:38:00 GMT
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- I am thinking of buying a presention graphics software package. I currently
- use microsoft powerpoint for making slides for presentations. It is nice
- for poping text and data in and out of other microsoft applications, but
- it is a bugger to output. It requires a heavily beefed up laser print ot
- get printouts, and I can't get it to give me files that can be read by
- a laser film etching device. Microsoft is no help, they just tell me to
- convince the organizers of scientific meetings to switch to on screen
- presentations instead of journals and slide presentations.
- I once saw Aldus persuasion demonstrated on a mac, but I've heard
- that it's hard to learn on IBM and not as powerful.
- Some of the computer rags are touting Lotus freelance as a better
- alternative.
- Many other people in my lab use an old version of slidewrite for
- it's great power for making graphs of enzyme data, but have no idea if it
- is any good for presentation graphics. They never use that part of the
- program. I have heard that there is a new version out that works on
- windows and is a competitor with powerpoint and persuasion and still has
- all the great data graphing and computational power that we find so useful.
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- Has anyone used the latest version of Slidwrite, does it run in
- windows, is it any good, is it really a competitor with persuasion?
- Does anyone have any recomendations regarding this question?
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- For the record, we are a biochemistry lab with modest needs for
- fancy presentation styles, but we all want to look good for job interviews.
- Most of us prefer to work in IBM mode. Those still using Macs still prefer
- to hand draw all slides and graphs, they are not exactly the computer concious
- side of the lab. The program I need must be for IBM type machine.
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- Thanks in advance.
-
- Dr. Leonard N. Bloksberg
- PreissJ@clvax1.cl.msu.edu
- Dept. of Biochemistry
- Michigan State University
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