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See Perspector at PowerPoint Live 2007
By Tim Hards | July 28, 2007
PowerPoint Live is a PowerPoint user conference, being held in New Orleans on October 28-31. This is the conference’s 5th year, and this year we’ll be exhibiting at it.
If you go, you’ll also be able to catch a presentation by our CTO, George McCaskill (his blog).
George’s seminar “Lessons from the rocket scientists: Building presentations that take off” will draw on his long experience in the requirements management/systems engineering industry. Although he won’t be talking about Perspector in the presentation, you will see slides that were created with it. I’ve seen a preview of the presentation, and it looks good.
Rick Altman, the conference organiser, has kindly given us an offer to pass on to our users – that’ll be you. Get $75 off the regular pricing for PowerPoint Live. Offer expires 3rd September.
There’s also a chance to win a free pass. Enter the sweepstakes. Names will be drawn between 13th and 15th August, so enter quickly!
Topics: PowerPoint Live | 1 Comment »
Easier 3D charts with new version: Perspector 3.2
By Tim Hards | July 25, 2007
We released Perspector 3.2 earlier today. It’s all about charts…
You might have loved the charts that you created with Perspector before, but you probably didn’t like it when you wanted to update your chart with new values. You would have found that you had to recreate your chart whenever you wanted to change a value! But no more!
Perspector 3.2 has a button which brings up a table of the values used in the chart. When you OK your changes, the chart is updated.
This change isn’t limited to modifying individual values, or renaming series and categories. You can delete whole rows and columns in the grid, or enter new ones, and the number of series or categories in the chart will be modified accordingly.
You will also be interested to hear that you can now create charts using data entered into this grid. You aren’t limited anymore to having to use data from Excel or a PowerPoint table.
This flexibility is pretty useful – you can now generate charts from the data in any program that copies data to the clipboard as tab-delimited values. Simply copy your values, and then paste them into the grid.
Perspector 3.2 also has better handling of data values. You now have control over how the data is organized: whether the chart series is stored in the rows or in the columns of the data. This setting is identified automatically, but you can toggle the setting in the Chart Properties box.
See more details and screenshots. Don’t forget that if you already own a version of Perspector 3, you are entitled to a free upgrade – follow the link for details.
Topics: 3D charts, Perspector, Professional Edition | No Comments »
Use XML to create 3D images
By Tim Hards | July 7, 2007
If you would like to write a program or VBA macro to create 3D Perspector images, you will be very interested in the new XML resources available on the Perspector website. A new article describes how Perspector image data is stored and how XML can be used to generate Perspector images.
The XML data model that Perspector uses has also been published.
More information on this subject will come in the future, but please ask me if you have any questions.
Topics: Perspector, XML | No Comments »
Review in Presentation Helper
By Tim Hards | July 5, 2007
UK-based Presentation Helper has recently added a review of Perspector.
PowerPoint MVP Geetesh Bajaj has previously reviewed Perspector on his comprehensive Indezine website. If you spot any other reviews of Perspector, please let me know so that I can share them here.
Topics: Perspector, Reviews | No Comments »
PowerPoint templates now available
By Tim Hards | July 4, 2007
PowerPoint templates are now available to purchase through our website. We didn’t create them, but we think they are an ideal complement to Perspector as they can add a professional look to your presentations.
Topics: Templates | No Comments »