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Aldus's presentation program, Persuasion, lists for $495 and features customized automatic slides using one of two approaches. Users can simply choose a template, type ideas into the built-in outliner, ask to view the slides, and show the text as formatted on the background that goes on that template. The other option allows users to create a custom presentation, including charts in any of 12 supplied formats and graphics which the user can type in the program and import. A mix of the two approaches can be achieved as well. The 10 steps involved in producing a presentation with Persuasion include selecting the template, preparing the outline, viewing the slides, using full-screen view to edit text, adding the company name to the slide masters, importing graphics, creating a column chart, creating a pie chart, creating an organizational chart and reviewing the slide before printing.
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Aldus Corp's $795 PageMaker 4.0 is more than an upgrade with its new word processing tools, workgroup publishing features, ability to handle documents up to 999 pages in length and greater typographic controls. For 3.0 owners, 4.0 costs $150. While there are still some features making version 3.0 desirable, such as kerning specs and a tracking editor, Version 4.0 adds at least a dozen features to an already impressive toolbox. Some of these include story view, a word processing window that lets users spell-check, search and replace, and edit more easily than is possible in the Layout view; book tools, which allows for chain printing of multiple PageMaker publications up to 999 pages long; and links, which allow any page to be 'linked' to an external file.
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The author tried Aldus Pagemaker briefly but gave up on it. She found that Pagemaker will not allow as much automatic preparation as Xerox Ventura Publisher: for example, Pagemaker requires the manual insertion of em and en dashes. Late editorial or layout changes on Pagemaker often have to be made manually. While Pagemaker controls word spacing for entire text files only, Ventura's typographic controls can be applied on an entire document, a paragraph or individual characters. Ventura allows later changes to be made on a word processor and then imported into a Ventura file. Revisions on Pagemaker are far more laborious. Ventura offers more typesetting capabilities than Pagemaker. For the author, the choice is the $895 Ventura.
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