Lotus Freelance Graphics Release 9.8 transforms presentation graphics into an everyday visual communications tool for individuals and teams. Freelance Graphics gives users a faster, easier way to develop plans, reports and proposals by helping them organize and summarize their ideas, while simultaneously providing visually compelling documents. Freelance Graphics gives users an optimal start-to-finish presentation development process including valuable content suggestions, tools for outlining and creating diagrams and a wide variety of features for enhancing presentations.
Productivity
- SlideFinder: The SlideFinder feature in Freelance Graphics lets users search through presentation pages for selected text, graphics or images.
- Save and Go: The Save and Go feature allows users to save a presentation file onto a disk and display it from another PC. Users without Freelance Graphics can also receive and play these files using the Save and Go feature.
- PPT file support: The PPT support package gives users the ability to import and export different file formats as well as contemporary file formats for presentations and graphic images.
- TWAIN support gives users the ability to scan and read images directly into a Freelance Graphics presentation page from their scanners.
- Transparency support for GIFs: Freelance Graphics supports the addition of transparent GIFs and GIF-format bullets for presentation pages.
- Compatibility: Users of Freelance Graphics can open Microsoft PowerPoint and Harvard Graphics Files without opening a Freelance presentation file first.
- Customization: The shared user interface components and cross-application tools in Freelance Graphics help users easily share data and functionality with other Lotus products, such as Lotus Notes. Windows integration also enables users to incorporate long file names, drag and drop features, tabbed dialog boxes, OLE 2.0 support and more.
- Speaker Notes: The Speaker Notes button allows users to edit speaker notes conveniently from the Current Page View.
- Welcome Dialog enables users to create a blank presentation with the click of a button.
Internet Integration
- Web conversion: These features allow users to save their presentation selections as "styles" for repeated use in Freelance Graphics. Freelance Graphics converts each presentation page to a separate image (.gif or .jpg) or a text block, for either optimal fidelity or faster download.
- Web browser: When viewing presentations via a browser, users have the ability to reduce the size of the published files for quicker review. The browser feature includes the ability to run a screen show with Freelance Graphics' ActiveX or Plug-In capability.
- Conversion assistant: Freelance Graphics has added a conversion assistant to guide users through the process of converting files for Web output.
Freelance Graphics Release 9.8 is sold as part of SmartSuite Release 9.8.
