 Corel Presentations 12 running on Windows. |
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| Developer(s) | Corel Corporation |
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| Stable release | Presentations X4 / April 2008 (Windows) |
| Operating system | Microsoft Windows |
| Type | Presentation |
| License | Proprietary |
| Website | www.corel.com |
Corel Presentations (which is often referred to simply as Presentations) is a presentation-graphics program akin to Microsoft PowerPoint and OpenOffice.org's Impress. The current release, version X4 (Release 14 internally), is available only as part of the Corel WordPerfect Office productivity suite.
Presentations shares much of its code with WordPerfect. It originally evolved from DrawPerfect, a DOS-based drawing program released in 1990 by the now-defunct WordPerfect Corporation. The first version, WordPerfect Presentations 2.0 for DOS, appeared in 1993, and was followed by a Microsoft Windows port of the DOS version a few months later. Due to severe usability and performance issues, the first Windows version was not considered a serious contender in the market. Novell acquired WordPerfect Corporation in April 1994 and shipped an upgrade of Presentations, Novell Presentations 3.0 for Windows, as part of the Novell PerfectOffice 3.0 for Windows productivity suite in December 1994.
Corel acquired PerfectOffice in January 1996 and released the first 32-bit version of Presentations in May of that year. Since then, the company has issued seven upgrades: version 8 (1997), version 9 (1999), version 10 (2001), version 11 (2003), version 12 (2004), version 13 (2006), and version 14 (2008). The last DOS release, version 2.1, appeared in 1997 as part of the Corel WordPerfect Suite for DOS.
Corel Presentations for Linux was included with the various editions of Corel WordPerfect Office for Linux. Corel no longer develops programs for the Linux operating system.
Over the years, the program's interface has evolved to resemble more closely that of Microsoft PowerPoint. Its primary strengths remain in the areas of graphics manipulation, although it does include a number of advanced transition and animation effects not found in its competitors. The program also has the ability to save to Microsoft PowerPoint and Adobe Systems .PDF formats, as well as to publish presentations to the Internet.
Features of Corel Presentations
Corel Presentations can be an extremely handy tool for creating effective and in-depth presentations. This program includes a number of templates and different types of slide shows to help to lay out your show properly. The templates include a set background, font, colour and set up of the slide. These defaults can be changed within the slide show. When creating a slide show you will be able to see three different layers of your slideshow. You can choose to see your slide layer ( where you put in your information, pictures, etc.) your layout layer (where presentations suggest what kind of information could be put into the different slides) and your background (where you can create new backgrounds to put into your gallery). When inserting pictures and text, you can choose to animate your pictures to make your slide show more interactive. You can insert sounds, movies, spreadsheets, and animations. When you complete your slide show you can publish it to the internet or play it directly from the program using quickplay.
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