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August newsletter
By Tim Hards | August 26, 2008
The August newsletter is now online.
It talks about the new Perspector Lists tool that has already been covered in this blog post and this one.
How the newsletter image was created
The newsletter features this illustration of using Perspector Lists:
This newsletter image was created using Perspector Professional Edition. It was quite easy to do: first create the PowerPoint bullet-point slide, then duplicate the slide and use Perspector to convert the list (3 clicks!), then on a third slide use Perspector Professional to arrange images of the 2 slides in 3D and add the arrow. Then the image file was created using the “Save as picture” command within Perspector.
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Perspector 4.2
By Tim Hards | August 15, 2008
The recent release of Perspector 4.2 coincided with our new Perspector Lists tool. Owners of Perspector 4.0 and 4.1 can upgrade to 4.2 for free, and the functionality of Perspector Lists is included in Standard Edition and Professional Edition.
The biggest improvement in Perspector 4.2 is how colors are handled when inserting images from the Perspector Library.
Previously, Perspector would try and match your presentation’s color scheme. For example, if you inserted this list from the Perspector Library:
into your gold-themed presentation, it might have come out looking like this:
Perspector 4.2 will give you the choice to do this, or to use the original library colors:
This choice is now also provided if you copy your images to other presentations if your images use presentation scheme colors that are different from the ones in the new presentation.
See a full list of the Perspector 4.2 changes.
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Perspector Lists
By Tim Hards | August 13, 2008
At the weekend, we released a new tool: Perspector Lists. With it you can create new 3D lists in your PowerPoint presentations:
You can also apply Perspector list styles to existing bullet-point lists on PowerPoint slides to transform them. These are the list styles in Perspector Lists.
Perspector Lists is available for an attractive $29.90.
If you already have Perspector Standard Edition or Professional Edition, you will already have the features of Perspector Lists. We decided to make them available in a separate tool to give our users more choice of Perspector tools.
Topics: Perspector, 3D lists, PowerPoint | 1 Comment »
June and July newsletters
By Tim Hards | August 6, 2008
In case you missed them, the June and July newsletters are available online.
The June newsletter talks about the lighting options in Perspector. It describes how to use lights to create this image:
The July newsletter talks about the various chart properties.
These are crucial to know about it if you want to produce particular effects with Perspector charts. For example, by using the Upper Value property, you can set the maximum value shown on charts to be more than the highest data value. This bar chart shows a range of values between 0 and 100 even though the highest data value in the chart is 30:
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