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- Software Publishing Corporation began shipping Harvard Graphics for Windows
- on December 30, 1991. The product is now available to customers on
- retailers' shelves. Harvard Graphics for Windows is a presentation
- graphics product enabling business users to create dynamic presentations
- that instantly adapt to changing audience and information requirements.
-
- "Designed as a complete presentation solution, Harvard Graphics for Windows
- offers the user the ability to analyze data dynamically, update the
- appearance, and interactively deliver presentations. This new concept of
- presentation management simplifies the process of creating, editing and
- delivering presentations," said Fred Gibbons, president and CEO of
- Software Publishing Corporation. "The early corporate acceptance for the
- product shows that with Harvard Graphics for Windows we will redefine the
- presentation graphics category, while once again delivering a best of
- breed product to our customer base."
-
- "We selected Harvard Graphics for Windows as our presentation graphics
- standard because it is the only product that provides our users with a
- truly unified package," said Mike McCurdy, information specialist, at
- British Petroleum. "Our users require a presentation graphics product that
- can easily link to the data in their spreadsheets and word processors, and
- we find Harvard Graphics for Windows provides the most complete and
- intuitive solution."
-
- Dynamic Analysis: Breadth of Charting Capabilities
-
- Harvard Graphics for Windows provides users with more chart types than any
- other Windows-based presentation graphics program. The product's breadth
- of charting types and wide selection of formulas for sophisticated
- calculations provides users with analytical capabilities not found in
- other presentation graphics products.
-
- In addition to standard text, pie and XY charts, Harvard Graphics offers
- data-driven table charts, high/low/close charts, and organization charts.
- Users can mix multiple chart types on a single slide and create their own
- custom templates.
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- An integrated Chart Gallery with 88 professionally-designed slide layouts,
- displayed through icons, enables users to preview the design and charting
- options available for developing a chart.
-
- Dynamic Appearance: Presentations Designed With Style Templates
-
- Users are guaranteed a consistent and professional look in their
- presentations through the use of 54 professionally-designed Presentation
- Styles. Each Presentation Style consists of a collection of templates
- specifying the charting options, color palette, background design, and
- type font and size. Templates automatically position and format text,
- table and organization charts, as well as graphics and drawings. This
- enables users to change the appearance of an entire presentation
- dynamically with the click of a mouse button. Users can also customize
- styles or create their own to match corporate guidelines or personalized
- formats.
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- Dynamic Delivery: HyperShow & Application Launching
-
- Using Harvard Graphics' advanced ScreenShow capabilities, business
- professionals can create dynamic presentations to impress any audience. To
- create an interactive on-screen presentation, presenters can incorporate
- the product's enhanced HyperShow feature -- enabling users to respond to
- audience queries with back-up graphs and information accessed by selecting
- user-defined "buttons" on a chart.
-
- Users can also incorporate the new Launch Application feature, enabling
- them to run DOS and Windows applications from within a Harvard Graphics
- for Windows ScreenShow by clicking the mouse on an object on screen. Easy
- access to data located in other applications, such as spreadsheets and
- databases, provides users with the capability to manipulate data outside a
- ScreenShow.
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- Dynamic Content & Connectivity
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- Harvard Graphics for Windows' sophisticated Dynamic Data Exchange (DDE)
- support allows users to create live data links to other Windows
- applications, such as spreadsheets and databases. These links ensure that
- the presentation data is updated automatically when source data is
- changed, even during a ScreenShow presentation.
-
- Harvard Graphics for Windows' DDE support, combined with the Launch
- Application and HyperShow features, enables users to produce Executive
- Information System (EIS) applications that graphically display the most
- current business information and immediately demonstrate the impact of
- changes to this information.
-
- Alternatives for Presentation Viewing
-
- Harvard Graphics for Windows offers the user three fully-integrated views
- for displaying and editing a presentation: the Slide Sorter, the Outliner
- and the Slide Editor. Changes in one working view are automatically
- reflected in the other views, and users can easily move between views by
- clicking on an icon.
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- With the Slide Sorter an entire presentation is displayed using a
- collection of slide miniatures, enabling users to make global
- modifications to a presentation. The text-based Outliner helps users
- organize their ideas and presentations, and is ideal for quickly creating
- text or bullet slides. The Slide Editor provides the user with a graphical
- view of an individual slide for detailed drawing, editing and review of
- data charts.
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- Drawing & Presentation Enhancement Capabilities
-
- Harvard Graphics for Windows offers an array of drawing and image editing
- tools specifically designed to enable business users to customize
- presentations. Charts can be enhanced easily with a variety of advanced
- drawing tools, such as zoom, rotate, drop shadow, sweep and Bezier
- curves.
-
- A unique subselection feature enables users to resize or edit individual
- chart elements, while maintaining the data integrity within the group.
- Users can also draw attention to individual chart elements, such as a pie
- slice, by filling them with bitmap graphics or gradient color fills.
-
- Compatibility
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- Harvard Graphics for Windows minimizes the need for users to re-enter data
- or recreate images by providing extensive connectivity to DOS and Windows
- word processors, spreadsheets and graphics programs. Harvard Graphics for
- Windows also reads Harvard Graphics 2.3 and 3.0 files, and exports charts
- and ScreenShows to Harvard Graphics 3.0.
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- Additional Features
-
- Additional features found in Harvard Graphics for Windows include 15
- Bitstream Speedo scalable fonts as well as support for Adobe Type Manager,
- WYSIWYG text editing, formatting options for text blocks and a spell
- checker. The product also supports over 150 printers, as well as Matrix
- and Lasergraphics film recorders. Autographix Overnight Slide Service is
- included for quick turnaround of 35mm slides.
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- Pricing and Availability
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- Harvard Graphics for Windows is now available for a suggested retail price
- of $595. Users of Harvard Graphics 2.3 and earlier releases, as well as
- users of other Software Publishing Windows-based products can upgrade to
- Harvard Graphics for Windows for $125. Users of Harvard Graphics 3.0 can
- participate in a limited-time cross-platform exchange for $50. In
- addition, users of competitive DOS and Windows-based presentation graphics
- products can participate in a limited-time competitive upgrade offer for
- $125. Harvard Graphics for Windows will be distributed through Software
- Publishing's nationwide network of over 4,500 resellers.
-
- System Requirements
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- Designed for IBM personal computers and 100 percent compatibles, Harvard
- Graphics for Windows requires a 286-based system with 14 megabytes of hard
- disk space, 2 megabytes of RAM, EGA or above display adapter, and a mouse.
- The recommended configuration is a 386 or 386SX-based system, 4 megabytes
- of RAM, and a VGA or Super VGA display.
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- Software Publishing Corporation (NASDAQ:SPCO) is an international supplier
- of business productivity software for the IBM Personal Computer and
- compatibles. The company currently develops and markets a wide range of
- software solutions for accessing and presenting information, including the
- market-leading Harvard Graphics product line, Harvard Draw for Windows,
- Professional Write and Professional Write PLUS, Superbase 4 application
- development RDBMS for Windows, and the InfoAlliance product line.
-
- Software Publishing Corp
- 3165 Kifer Rd, Santa Clara, CA 95051
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