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Article #44Lighthouse Design Ships Concurrence Academic
From: Wiley Hodges
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1992 20:05
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1992 20:05
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Lighthouse Design Ships Concurrence Academic Presentation Software for NeXT STEP Computers April 10, 1992-- Lighthouse Design, Ltd., the creators of Diagram!, today began shipping Concurrence Academic, the first integrated outlining and presentation software available for the NeXT platform. Concurrence Academic, created specifically for NeXT users at colleges and universities, comes in both student and faculty/staff versions. The student version comes without printed documentation, but includes the full contents of the manual (including illustrations) online and indexed for the Digital Librarian. The faculty/staff version of Concurrence includes the printed documentation. Both versions are fully enabled, and support the same powerful features as commercial versions of Concurrence. Concurrence Academic takes full advantage of NeXT's multimedia capabilities and allows users to create high-quality on-screen presentations complete with sound recordings and file links, or output to any PostScript output device, from printers to 35mm slide makers. With a built-in outliner that goes feature-for-feature with most word processors, Concurrence Academic is made for creating and maintaining structure, from documents such as legal briefs and discussion agendas, down to simple to-do lists. Rearranging topics is a simple as picking them up and dragging them around the screen. In addition, Concurrence Academic's outliner features rapid collapse and expand of topics, auto-labelling, level formatting, and EMACS key bindings. Using the audio capabilities built into every NeXT computer, Concurrence Academic supports the desktop-based creation of on-screen presentations with sound accompaniment. In addition, Concurrence Academic supports the "drag and drop" incorporation of encapsulated PostScript (EPS) or tagged image file format (TIFF) images. For screen-based presentations, Concurrence Academic features a wide variety of PostScript slide transitions such as dissolves, wipes and scrolls. Slide sorting can be done on a slide-by-slide basis, or entire modules of slides may be moved simultaneously for more rapid sorting than conventional "light table"-type sorters allow. Applying styles to large presentations is simplified by using master slides for each presentation view. Users may create an unlimited number of master slides. Concurrence Academic easily maintains multiple presentations and outlines as views within the same document so that changes made to one presentation or outline are automatically propagated to all other views of the document. Concurrence Academic's "Prepare for Mail" feature allows users to assemble self-contained presentations and distribute them via NeXT Mail to NeXT users running Concurrence Academic anywhere in the world. In addition, users can create auto-repeating on-screen presentations for applications such as conferences and information centers. Price and availability Concurrence Academic is currently shipping and available. For price information contact NeXT Connection at (800)800-NEXT. Institutions interested in site licenses should contact Lighthouse Design directly at +1-301-907-4621. _______________________________ Lighthouse Design, Ltd., a privately held company headquartered in Chevy Chase, Maryland, is dedicated to developing and marketing software for NeXT STEP computers. A portion of Lighthouse Design's profits is contributed annually to charity. Concurrence Academic and Diagram! are trademarks of Lighthouse Design, Ltd. NeXT, NeXT STEP, the Digital Librarian, and NeXT Mail are trademarks of NeXT Computer, Inc. All other brand names mentioned are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners.
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!usc!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!bloom-picayune.mit.edu!news From: lighthouse!wiley@uunet.uu.net (Wiley Hodges) Subject: Lighthouse Design Ships Concurrence Academic Message-ID: <1992Apr13.200543.494@athena.mit.edu> Followup-To: poster Sender: news@athena.mit.edu (News system) Nntp-Posting-Host: plethora.media.mit.edu Organization: Massachvsetts Institvte of Technology Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1992 20:05:43 GMT Approved: lacsap@Mit.edu Lines: 72