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Nine presentation packages are evaluated. Aldus Corp's $495 Aldus Persuasion 2.0 for Windows received the highest rating - five stars - of those packages that run on the IBM PC. Persuasion carries almost all the key features, is very easy to learn and supports most common import formats as well as a variety of output devices. Software Publishing Corp's $595 Harvard Graphics for Windows, four and a half stars, reigns supreme in the Windows features category, but some operations make the user wait while processing occurs. Lotus Development Corp's $495 Freelance Graphics for Windows, four stars, has solid features, a Smarticons tool to simplify editing, but users cannot enter text on note pages, and there are no handout or note masters. Other presentation packages evaluated include Claris Corp's $495 Hollywood, Microsoft Corp's $495 PowerPoint 2.0 (for MSDOS and Microsoft Windows) and $395 PowerPoint 2.01 (for the Macintosh), Micrografx Inc's $495 Charisma 2.1, Aldus' $495 Persuasion 2.0 for the Mac and Symantec Corp's $395 More 3.0.
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A review and comparison of three programs for graphing numerical data concludes that DeltaGraph Professional, $495 Windows and $295 Macintosh versions, from DeltaPoint Inc is the best software package because of its superior graphics display and presentation features. The other two programs are the $195 GraphMaster 1.32 from Visual Business Systems Inc and $195 Cricket Graph III from Computer Associates International Inc. All three programs offer more mathematical functions and better graphing capabilities than those included in almost all presentation and spreadsheet programs. DeltaGraph Pro is the only cross-platform product, offers the most complete import and export options and is the only one that can create spider charts. GraphMaster is the only program that enables the creation of pictograms. Cricket Graph III contains the most robust set of statistical functions.
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Peirce Software's $149 Smoothie image processing software for the Macintosh allows users to sharpen vector graphics or text on screen. The program scales up an image or text 16 times, rasterizes it, averages the pixels and rescales the image to its original size. It can import images from PICT, Clipboard or Scrapbook and export them in PICT, Clipboard or single-frame QuickTime format. It can also batch process images and convert them to several different formats, including a Smoothie Slideshow. Users must import results individually into PowerPoint or Persuasion. Users can easily send Slideshow's stand-alone files because they can run without Smoothie. There is no difficulty with fonts during playback because all type is bit-mapped.
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