Corel Presentations, often referred to simply as Presentations, is a
presentation program akin to
Microsoft PowerPoint
Microsoft PowerPoint is a presentation program, developed by Microsoft.
It was originally created by Robert Gaskins, Tom Rudkin, and Dennis Austin at a software company named Forethought, Inc. It was released on April 20, 1987, initially ...
and
LibreOffice Impress.
The current release, version 2021 (Release 21 internally), is available only as part of Corel's
WordPerfect Office productivity suite.
History
Presentations shares much of its code with
WordPerfect
WordPerfect (WP) is a word processing application, now owned by Alludo, with a long history on multiple personal computer platforms. At the height of its popularity in the 1980s and early 1990s, it was the market leader of word processors, disp ...
. It originally evolved from DrawPerfect, a
MS-DOS
MS-DOS ( ; acronym for Microsoft Disk Operating System, also known as Microsoft DOS) is an operating system for x86-based personal computers mostly developed by Microsoft. Collectively, MS-DOS, its rebranding as IBM PC DOS, and a few op ...
-based drawing program released in 1990 by the now-defunct WordPerfect Corporation. The first version, WordPerfect Presentations 2.0 for DOS, appeared in 1993, and was followed by a
Microsoft Windows
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port of the DOS version a few months later.
Novell
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acquired WordPerfect Corporation in April 1994 and shipped an upgrade of Presentations, Novell Presentations 3.0 for Windows, as part of the Novell PerfectOffice 3.0 for Windows productivity suite in December 1994.
Corel
Cascade Parent Limited, doing business as Alludo ( ), is a Canadian software company headquartered in Ottawa, Ontario, specializing in graphics processing. Formerly called the Corel Corporation ( ; from the abbreviation "Cowpland Research Laborat ...
acquired PerfectOffice in January 1996 and released the first
32-bit
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version of Presentations in May of that year. Since then, the company has issued version 8 (1997), version 9 (1999), version 10 (2001), version 11 (2003), version 12 (2004), version 13 (2006), version 14 (2008), version 15 (2010), version 16 (2012), version 17 (2014), version 18 (2016), version 19 (2018), version 20 (2020) and version 21 (2021). The last DOS release, version 2.1, appeared in 1997 as part of the Corel WordPerfect Suite for DOS.
Corel Presentations for
Linux
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was included with the various editions of Corel WordPerfect Office for Linux. Corel no longer develops programs for the Linux operating system.
User interface
Over the years, the program's interface has evolved to more closely resemble that of Microsoft PowerPoint. Its primary strengths remain in the areas of
graphics manipulation, although it does include a number of transition and
animation
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effects. The program also has the ability to save to Microsoft PowerPoint and
PDF
Portable document format (PDF), standardized as ISO 32000, is a file format developed by Adobe Inc., Adobe in 1992 to present documents, including text formatting and images, in a manner independent of application software, computer hardware, ...
formats, as well as to publish presentations to the Internet.
Features
Corel Presentations can create effective and in-depth presentations. This program includes a number of templates and different types of slide shows to help to lay out a show. The templates include a set background,
font
In metal typesetting, a font is a particular size, weight and style of a ''typeface'', defined as the set of fonts that share an overall design.
For instance, the typeface Bauer Bodoni (shown in the figure) includes fonts " Roman" (or "regul ...
, color and set up of the slide. These defaults can be changed within the slide show. It has always included a Bitmap Editor which works like a paintbrush program and even allows for the alteration of individual pixels.
See also
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Comparison of office suites
References
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