Presentation Tools

Highlight, focus or magnify objects in PowerPoint presentations, on the fly and with zero preperation

Robin Good: SoftMaker Presentations is the presentation graphics program available inside SoftMaker Office 2012 – a Windows-and-Linux-only suite of applications that is fully compatible with Microsoft PowerPoint (and Office).

SoftMaker Presentations replicates all of the classic Powerpoint functionalities while adding powerful efects, animations and transitions.

SoftMaker Presentations lets you create any kind of presentation, be it a slideshow, a video or a collection of HTML pages, and to pass it around as a PowerPoint file.

Key features include:

-> Opens and saves PPT and PPTX files of Microsoft PowerPoint 97 to 2010 faithfully, including those with password protection

-> Font embedding ensures that presentations retain their fonts even when viewed on other computers

-> PDF file output of slides, outlines, handouts, and notes

-> Design templates give you impressive results fast.

-> Animations and slide transitions

- > Hundreds of object and text animations available

-> Ready-made animation schemes that animate entire presentations at once

-> Insert movie and sound files

-> Outliner

-> Interactive presentation of slide shows with virtual pen and highlighter

-> Fully Unicode-enabled, including Arabic

-> Free-of-charge technical support

30-day free trial version: http://www.softmaker.net/down/ofw2012eval.exe 

Cost: €69.95 

There is also a Linux version. 

More info: http://www.softmaker.com/english/ofwpr_en.htm 

From the official site: "The PDFrizator is a Freeware tool to create PDF presentations, with the possibility to setup the PDF page transition effect, page advance time, and background music.

This can be done for already existing PDF's, or from the various file type formats supported, that can all be converted, and visually combined, in the same project.

Because of the possibility to convert multiple file formats, the PDFrizator is also a handy tool to rapidly, and visually, create PDF files"

Key features include:

• Powerful Resource Explorer, able to browse local files and online ones using Internet services such as: Bing images, Google images, Picasa, Flickr and Twitpic.
  
  
• Advanced Sound Explorer, with embedded player, to easily select local music files, or found in the Internet, searching in sites such as SoundCloud.
  
  
• Visually merge, delete, rotate, rearrange and set result PDF pages size.
  
  
• Possibility to install in portable mode.

For Windows PCs only.

Download here: http://www.rttsoftware.com/downloads.html#DownloadPDFrizator

Find out more: http://www.rttsoftware.com/pdfrizator.html

Robin Good: StatSilk offers a set of free downloadable software tools to create professional-looking stat and trend charts.

StatPlanet can be used to create anything from basic interactive maps to advanced infographics.

StatTrends is tailored to create interactive graphs and charts.

Key features include: 

-> Multiple graphing and charting types

-> Select countries by clicking on them in the world map or country selection window. Statistics and details for the country selected are displayed inside popups and visualization components.

-> Animate changes over time

-> Zoom into map regions

-> Hide or reveal details - Change the level of detail by hiding or revealing interface components, country names or statistics.

-> Customize the colors and value ranges of maps

and graphs.

-> Export maps for use in other applications or publications.

Examples: http://www.statsilk.com/examples 

Try free web-demo here: http://www.statsilk.com/software/stattrends 

Features: http://www.statsilk.com/features 

and here: http://www.statsilk.com/features#components 

Downloads: http://www.statsilk.com/downloads (Win only)

Find out more: http://www.statsilk.com/