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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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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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Past newletters now available online
By Tim Hards | May 15, 2008
Last September, the Perspector newsletter was re-launched as a monthly source of tips, news, notification of new library images, and the occasional offer (two so far). Until now, you had to sign up to receive them…
From today, all of the newsletters are available online.
The newsletter archive already includes November 2007’s comprehensive coverage of Perspector 4.0:
December 2007’s fusion of PowerPoint 2007 and Perspector:
And several other newsletters explaining Perspector in more detail: shape handles, toolbar customization, shape color, alignment and distribution.
If you like the look of these, sign up and get future newsletters sent to you.
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