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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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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.
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Content placeholders
By Tim Hards | May 6, 2007
The Professional Edition of Perspector has an item called a slide placeholder. These can be inserted by inserting a layout from the Perspector panel or from the Slides > Insert Layout menu.
Before Perspector 3.1, slide placeholders could be clicked to insert an image of a PowerPoint slide from the current presentation, or to insert a group of Perspector shapes that represent the selected slide. Here you can see three slide placeholders from Perspector 3.0, one placeholder contains a slide image, the other two are empty:
In Perspector 3.1 these placeholders have been extended to become general content placeholders that can contain either slides or pictures. Here is an example from Perspector 3.1 with an arbitrary picture in one of the placeholders, and a slide image in another:
This new functionality in the Perspector layouts allows a whole new set of images to be created easily, using the current set of built-in placeholder layouts. For example, here I used the Left-To-Right Strip layout to line up photos of a few of my colleagues (photos taken from http://www.perspector.com/aboutus.cfm) - this took seconds to create:
Tags: 3D, PowerPoint, PowerPoint slides
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