Inform! is presentation software. You use it to create informative presentations on any subject by combining text with graphics, digital images, and digital audio and video files. It consists of three programs - a presentation designer, a presentation viewer, and a presentation securer. The presentation reviewer is freeware. So you can distribute it royalty free with your presentations, even if you sell them.

You will be amazed at how quickly you will be producing your own high quality interactive multimedia presentations!

The degree of sophistication and professionalism you can achieve is a function primarily of the sophistication and professionalism of the source files you use.

Inform! Main Features:

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Price: At $49.00, Inform! is only about 1/3 the cost of CRE:8, NeoBook or PowerPoint.

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.

No file left behind: Inform! documents can contain ANY file ¨C databases, word documents, spread sheets, even programs. When accessed, a program is run, or a file is opened in its own program.

Outlines/indexes: Inform! supports not one but multiple outlines and indexes.

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.

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 ¨C you can lower the volume of a video file and use a separate audio file as narration or accompaniment

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.

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.

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 ¨C 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.

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.