FlashPPT: August 2008
Thoughts and impressions of whatever is happening in the world of Flash PowerPoint.
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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 | |
| 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 |
| Other Scores | Score | Maximum |
| Interface | 7 | 10 |
| PowerPoint 2007 Support | 8 | 10 |
| Help and Support | 6 | 10 |
| Output | 4 | 10 |
| Price | 10 | 10 |
| Total | 130 | 150 |
| Percentage | 86.6 | 100 |
Note: 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
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 |
| PowerPoint and operating system compliance | ||
| PowerPoint 2000/2002/2003/2007 | + | + |
| Windows 2000/XP/2003/Vista | + | + |
| PowerPoint Objects Support | ||
| 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 | + | + |
| PowerPoint Multimedia | ||
| 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 | + | + |
| Presentation enhancements with iSpring | ||
| 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 | - | + |
| Flash based player | ||
| 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 | - | + |
| Possible destination | ||
| SlideBoom online portal | + | + |
| Local folder at My Computer | + | + |
| - | + | |
| Remote FTP server | - | + |
| Output formats | ||
| Flash file (.SWF) | + | + |
| HTML page | + | + |
| Executable file (.EXE) | - | + |
| Archive (.ZIP) | - | + |
| Flash movie packaging | ||
| Solid Flash movie | + | + |
| Separate Flash movies with Player | - | + |
| Standalone Flash movies without Player | - | + |
| Quality and Compression Control | ||
| Smart compression for images | - | + |
| Preset and custom compression modes | - | + |
| Video bitrate control | - | + |
| Audio compression | - | + |
| Smoothing of raster images | - | + |
| Frame rate control | - | + |
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
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 | |
| Evaluation Date | August 1st 2008 | |
| 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 |
| Other Scores | Score | Maximum |
| Interface | 9 | 10 |
| PowerPoint 2007 Support | 8 | 10 |
| Help and Support | 7 | 10 |
| Output | 8 | 10 |
| Price | 7 | 10 |
| Total | 135 | 150 |
| Percentage | 90 | 100 |
Note: 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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