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Wednesday, August 20, 2008
We just did a review on iSpring Free 3.5 on Indezine.com. This review was based on the FlashPPT Evaluate benchmark presentation -- here are the individual scores:
| Product | iSpring Free 3.5
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| Evaluation Date | August 21st 2008 |
|
Feature |
Score |
Maximum |
Bullets and Bullet Levels |
5
|
5
|
Animated Bullets |
5
|
5 |
Pictures (and Picture Rotation) |
5 |
5 |
Animated Picture |
5
|
5 |
Picture with Alpha Channel |
5
|
5 |
Linked Picture |
5
|
5 |
Clip Art and Clip Art, Recolored |
5
|
5 |
Clip Art, Animated and Rotated |
5
|
5 |
Shapes, Fills, and Lines without transparency |
5
|
5 |
Shapes, Fills, and Lines with transparency |
5
|
5 |
Shapes, Fills, and Lines with entry animations |
5
|
5 |
Overlapping text boxes with transparency |
5
|
5 |
Geometry and mutual positioning of shapes, arrows and text boxes |
5
|
5 |
Geometry and mutual positioning of slide objects - alignment |
5
|
5 |
Text formatting |
5
|
5 |
Animations and transitions |
4
|
5 |
Embedded Flash movie |
5
|
5 |
Linked movie clip |
5
|
5 |
Background music and transition sounds |
3
|
5 |
Narration |
3
|
5 |
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Other Scores |
Score |
Maximum |
Interface |
7
|
10 |
PowerPoint 2007 Support |
8
|
10 |
Help and Support |
6
|
10 |
Output |
4
|
10 |
Price |
10
|
10 |
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Total |
130 |
150 |
Percentage |
86.6
|
100 |
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All scores are provided by the Indezine test team, and are the opinion of the individual tester -- all results are double-checked and the reviews go through a QC process. Labels: add-in, evaluate, flash, ispring, powerpoint, review, score
Tuesday, August 19, 2008
Often users ask about the differences between the free and pro versions of iSpring -- and while iSpring Solutions does have extensive documentation on the differences, I thought it will be nice to have that information available on the FlashPPT site. Nina Lezhnina from iSpring sent me an exhaustive comparison.
Features |
Free |
Pro |
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PowerPoint and operating system compliance |
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PowerPoint 2000/2002/2003/2007 |
+ |
+ |
Windows 2000/XP/2003/Vista |
+ |
+ |
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PowerPoint Objects Support |
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Grouped shapes, texts, images, vector shapes |
+ |
+ |
Diagrams, Charts and Graphs |
+ |
+ |
3D objects and effects |
+ |
+ |
Slide Masters (with animations and hyperlinks) |
+ |
+ |
Internal and external hyperlinks |
+ |
+ |
Conversion of large (200+ MB) presentations |
+ |
+ |
Right-to-Left languages |
+ |
+ |
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PowerPoint Multimedia |
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185+ animation effects |
+ |
+ |
All slide transition effects |
+ |
+ |
Synchronization of animations and sounds |
+ |
+ |
Mouse driven animations |
+ |
+ |
Repeated animations |
+ |
+ |
Embedded Flash files |
+ |
+ |
Embedded audio |
+ |
+ |
Embedded video files |
+ |
+ |
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Presentation enhancements with iSpring |
|
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One click publishing |
+ |
+ |
6 integrated Players |
- |
+ |
Size and Scale customization |
- |
+ |
Flash movie Preloader |
- |
+ |
Full screen playback mode |
- |
+ |
Web links manager |
- |
+ |
Background audio for entire presentation |
- |
+ |
Background audio for separate slide |
- |
+ |
Looped playback |
+ |
+ |
Flash menu disable |
- |
+ |
Flash presentation autostart |
- |
+ |
Mouse and keyboard playback control |
- |
+ |
References manager |
- |
+ |
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Flash based player |
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Integrated Flash based Player |
+ |
+ |
Live Preview |
- |
+ |
Customizable Player skins |
- |
+ |
Presenter info |
- |
+ |
Custom interactive logo |
- |
+ |
"Banner" creation mode |
- |
+ |
Show/Hide Player Buttons, Noteses, Thumbnails, Titles |
- |
+ |
Ink annotation tool |
- |
+ |
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Possible destination |
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SlideBoom online portal |
+ |
+ |
Local folder at My Computer |
+ |
+ |
E-mail |
- |
+ |
Remote FTP server |
- |
+ |
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Output formats |
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Flash file (.SWF) |
+ |
+ |
HTML page |
+ |
+ |
Executable file (.EXE) |
- |
+ |
Archive (.ZIP) |
- |
+ |
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Flash movie packaging |
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Solid Flash movie |
+ |
+ |
Separate Flash movies with Player |
- |
+ |
Standalone Flash movies without Player |
- |
+ |
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Quality and Compression Control |
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Smart compression for images |
- |
+ |
Preset and custom compression modes |
- |
+ |
Video bitrate control |
- |
+ |
Audio compression |
- |
+ |
Smoothing of raster images |
- |
+ |
Frame rate control |
- |
+ |
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There are two more versions of iSpring: Ultra and SDK that add different or expanded abilities -- this page on the iSpring site has more info about these abilities. Labels: flash, ispring, powerpoint, slideboom
Friday, August 1, 2008
We just did a review on iSpring Pro 3.5 on Indezine.com. This review was based on the FlashPPT Evaluate benchmark presentation -- here are the individual scores:
| Product | iSpring Pro 3.5
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| Evaluation Date | August 1st 2008 |
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Feature |
Score |
Maximum |
Bullets and Bullet Levels |
5
|
5 |
Animated Bullets |
5
|
5 |
Pictures (and Picture Rotation) |
|
5 |
Animated Picture |
5
|
5 |
Picture with Alpha Channel |
5
|
5 |
Linked Picture |
5
|
5 |
Clip Art and Clip Art, Recolored |
5
|
5 |
Clip Art, Animated and Rotated |
5
|
5 |
Shapes, Fills, and Lines without transparency |
5
|
5 |
Shapes, Fills, and Lines with transparency |
5
|
5 |
Shapes, Fills, and Lines with entry animations |
5
|
5 |
Overlapping text boxes with transparency |
5
|
5 |
Geometry and mutual positioning of shapes, arrows and text boxes |
5
|
5 |
Geometry and mutual positioning of slide objects - alignment |
5
|
5 |
Text formatting |
5
|
5 |
Animations and transitions |
5
|
5 |
Embedded Flash movie |
5
|
5 |
Linked movie clip |
5
|
5 |
Background music and transition sounds |
3
|
5 |
Narration |
3
|
5 |
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Other Scores |
Score |
Maximum |
Interface |
9
|
10 |
PowerPoint 2007 Support |
8
|
10 |
Help and Support |
7
|
10 |
Output |
8
|
10 |
Price |
7
|
10 |
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Total |
135 |
150 |
Percentage |
90 |
100 |
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All scores are provided by the Indezine test team, and are the opinion of the individual tester -- all results are double-checked and the reviews go through a QC process. Labels: add-in, evaluate, flash, ispring, powerpoint, review, score
          
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