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Below is a complete description of Inform!
But you can also see it.
Inform! is not the only
multimedia document authoring system. There are a number of others available.
Microsoft PowerPoint, CRE:8, and NeoBook are among them.
Each one has features the others
do not. PowerPoint lets you see thumbnails of your slides, Inform!
doesn't. NeoBook has a built in macro language, Inform! doesn't, and
neither does PowerPoint.
Inform! has a number of
features the others don't. These are discussed below, and we think you'll like
what we have.
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Price:
At $15.00, Inform! is only about 1/10 the cost of CRE:8,
NeoBook or PowerPoint.
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Work
with multiple files: Inform! lets you select, or drag
and drop multiple digital images to create multiple consecutive pages with
one image as background to each page. You can create a photo album in
seconds. Moreover, the page you drop your images on is used as a template
for all other pages created, so whatever objects you have on the first page
will also appear on all pages created.
You can also select or drag and drop multiple images to place multiple
images on the same page. The images are stacked on top of each other and
simply have to be moved to where you want them.
Say you have six or eight images you want to associate with entries in a
combo box. Just put a combo box on your page and drag and drop the pictures
on it. An entry for each picture is created using the file name as the entry
text and the picture is associated with it.
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No
file left behind: Inform! documents can contain ANY file – databases, word documents,
spread sheets, even programs. When accessed, a program is run, or a file is
opened in its own program.
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Outlines/indexes:
Inform! supports not one but multiple outlines and indexes.
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Retrieve
all files used in a document: Any file imported into your document can be saved back to disk in
both the document designer and the document reviewer.
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Unique
audio/video capability: Import an audio or video file once and use it many times
throughout the document. Play a segment on one page and the same or
different segment on another page. For each use of an audio or video file
you can specify a segment or scene to play, and a number of times to play
it.
You can size and position video windows on your page. Play multiple files at
once – you can lower the volume of a video file and use a separate audio
file as narration or accompaniment
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Show
digital images at size:
You can enlarge or shrink images you place on a page. But any time you want,
you can view the image at its actual size in its own window.
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Show
background images only: When you use an image as background to a page, you can place
labels, text boxes, and other images on top of it. But if you want your
viewers to be able to see the whole background picture without obstruction,
you can turn this feature on. Viewers can then press a key to make all
foreground items disappear. Press the key again, and foreground items are
redrawn.
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Slide
shows:
Slide shows can be set to repeat play indefinitely. Stops only when Esc key
is pressed. Last page in a slide show can be made to force any other page in
document to be displayed when slide duration is reached.
Above makes it possible to have multiple slide shows accessed from a table
of contents on a single page. When finished, each slide show jumps back to
the table of contents page.
A video file’s duration (or the duration of a segment you have chosen) can
be used as the duration of the slide. This makes it possible to incorporate
videos or segments of a video into a slide show – You can thus play
different scenes of a video on different pages or slides in your document,
and display the video segments with accompanying text and photos.
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Secure
documents:
All documents are fully encrypted using the same Microsoft encryption
technology employed by Microsoft Access databases. Therefore, disk sector
editors and other software would not be able to make any sense of your
documents.
You can further protect documents with a user name and password. This means
your document cannot be opened by anyone else using the document designer
software. But it can be opened (but not modified or edited) by any user of the
reviewer software.
Inform! documents have a lot
of features that allow great flexibility in organizing and presenting your
information with a lot of user interaction.
Here are a few examples of the many types of document you can create with I_Design:
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Multimedia Xmas cards and letters:
One window can contain a lot of
information - a single text box can contain the equivalent of dozens of
printed pages of text, and in one window you can display a lot of
pictures. And you can have a combo box in a window that
can contain hundreds of entries, each of which can be associated with a
picture, a sound file, a video file, etc. and each of these can be opened
for playing or display. A document with one page is all you need for a
nice multimedia Xmas card or letter.
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Slide
show: You could make a document that consists of a single slide show that
repeats indefinitely until the user stops it. Such a document would be
useful for making announcements to employees or organization members at a
main entrance, or for demonstrating a product or announcing product sales
to customers in a store. In fact you could make a document that consisted
of many indefinitely repeating slide shows.
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Multiple
slide shows: You could make a document that opens to a central page on which
you display labels that have jumps to the beginning of any number of slide
shows. When the slide shows are complete, the user is returned to the
central page.
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Interactive
documents: You could create interactive novels, stories, or training modules. The
first few pages could set the stage for a decision the viewer must make.
Each decision could take the story along a different line. Such a document
could consist of a combination of ordinary pages and slide shows. This
type of document is ideal for trouble shooting guides, repair guides, and
flow charting such as qualitative analysis in chemistry, or mineral
identification in geology.
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Photo
albums: You could create a photo album with one photo per page in order by
date/time taken and a text box on each page describing each photo. Then
you could create as many indexes and outlines as you want to act like a
filtering mechanism. For example, one outline could be devoted to
birthdays, and another to vacations, and still another to family and
relatives, and another to Xmas photos. Photos on specific subjects, or
specific camera settings could be displayed via the search routines which
apply to text in text boxes. A user could search for "flower",
"tree", "mountain", or "Hawaii" photos in
your album. You can make your own sound files to associate with each page
to provide narration for your album.
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Information
directories: You could
easily use Inform! to create an
automated information kiosk, for example for a big city, a zoo, or large
office building. The first or main
page could consist of major subject headings, such as Dining,
Entertainment, Transportation, Museums, Parks, Shopping, etc. When the
user clicks on one of these subjects, a page is displayed that presents
further choices. Dining, for example, could lead to a page that gives a
breakdown of restaurants by type of food; Asian, Greek, Indian, Mexican,
Italian, etc. The user could also use outlines, indexes, and search
facilities to locate what he is looking for.
Inform!
can be used to create very brief and simple, or very long and complex
documents. If you want, you can create a multimedia encyclopedia, all in one
file.
Inform!™ is a suite of three separate programs consisting
of:
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I_Design:
for creating multimedia documents.
This program is copyright protected and is not freely distributable.
However, the documents you make with it are yours to distribute, for sale
if you wish, without royalty.
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I_Review: for viewing documents prepared with I_Design.
I_Review is copyright protected and is NOT TO BE SOLD BY ANYONE. It
is feely distributable without royalty with any documents prepared with I_Design, even if
you sell then.
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Secure:
for securing documents created with I_Design so
that other users of I_Design cannot open them (they can only be
viewed in I_Review).
The 40 day trial version called "The Works" is fully functional
and will install all three programs on your system.
Inform! is distributed
with an uninstall utility.
The following are minimal requirements for running I_Design
or I_Review:
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Pentium 90 Mhz processor
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VGA 640 by 480 screen resolution
at least
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Windows 98, 98SE, 2000, Me, XP
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Internet Explorer
4.0 or later must be installed.
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