cangiante
09-15-2002, 06:25 PM
IMPATICA: HAS ANYBODY HAPPENED TO TRY IT?
One of the few - but by no means least - things I would love to have on my nB is surely a presentation software (sort of MS powerpoint).
Until now, I tried to do my best with programs such as pdf - or even converting files such as excel graphs into htm pages - and everything was quite fine.
Recently, after browsing on the psion teklogix partner pages, I came across this site called impatica.
According to these people, impatica for powerpoint should be a practical way to convert and reduce the size of a ppt presentation in order to visualize it in htm pages (opera), thanks to the java technology.
I have recently tried an evaluation copy on my home pc, and the conversion of one of my ppt files went quite fine: the majority of the animations of that file were also kept.
Unfortunately, as soon as I got this file on my nB the result was quite different.
in fact - at least in my particular case - the animations got messed each one on the previous ones, and the experiment ended unsuccessfully.
the subject is interesting indeed and I would like to know whether anybody has already tried such a software on the nB to understand what did not work for me.
PS: the license is surely not cheap (499 euro) but one may always HOPE that...
1) seeing many nBusers interested in it, the sw house might work a better deal for the psion nB community ...let me have just a positive attitude about this... ;-)
2) this sw will be available in some future restyling of the nB...
One of the few - but by no means least - things I would love to have on my nB is surely a presentation software (sort of MS powerpoint).
Until now, I tried to do my best with programs such as pdf - or even converting files such as excel graphs into htm pages - and everything was quite fine.
Recently, after browsing on the psion teklogix partner pages, I came across this site called impatica.
According to these people, impatica for powerpoint should be a practical way to convert and reduce the size of a ppt presentation in order to visualize it in htm pages (opera), thanks to the java technology.
I have recently tried an evaluation copy on my home pc, and the conversion of one of my ppt files went quite fine: the majority of the animations of that file were also kept.
Unfortunately, as soon as I got this file on my nB the result was quite different.
in fact - at least in my particular case - the animations got messed each one on the previous ones, and the experiment ended unsuccessfully.
the subject is interesting indeed and I would like to know whether anybody has already tried such a software on the nB to understand what did not work for me.
PS: the license is surely not cheap (499 euro) but one may always HOPE that...
1) seeing many nBusers interested in it, the sw house might work a better deal for the psion nB community ...let me have just a positive attitude about this... ;-)
2) this sw will be available in some future restyling of the nB...