From: lighthouse!wiley@uunet.uu.net (Wiley Hodges)
Subject: Lighthouse Design Ships Concurrence Academic
Followup-To: poster
Organization: Massachvsetts Institvte of Technology
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1992 20:05:43 GMT

Lighthouse Design Ships Concurrence Academic Presentation Software for NeXT  
STEP Computers	

April 10, 1992-- Lighthouse Design, Ltd., the creators of Diagram!, today began  
shipping Concurrence Academic, the first integrated outlining and presentation  
software available for the NeXT platform. Concurrence Academic, created  
specifically for NeXT users at colleges and universities, comes in both student  
and faculty/staff versions. The student version comes without printed  
documentation, but includes the full contents of the manual (including  
illustrations) online and indexed for the Digital Librarian. The faculty/staff  
version of Concurrence includes the printed documentation. Both versions are  
fully enabled, and support the same powerful features as commercial versions of  
Concurrence.


Concurrence Academic takes full advantage of NeXT's multimedia capabilities and  
allows users to create high-quality on-screen presentations complete with sound  
recordings and file links, or output to any PostScript output device, from  
printers to 35mm slide makers.

With a built-in outliner that goes feature-for-feature with most word  
processors, Concurrence Academic is made for creating and maintaining  
structure, from documents such as legal briefs and discussion agendas, down to  
simple to-do lists. Rearranging topics is a simple as picking them up and  
dragging them around the screen. In addition, Concurrence Academic's outliner  
features rapid collapse and expand of topics, auto-labelling, level formatting,  
and EMACS key bindings.

Using the audio capabilities built into every NeXT computer, Concurrence  
Academic supports the desktop-based creation of on-screen presentations with  
sound accompaniment. In addition, Concurrence Academic supports the "drag and  
drop" incorporation of encapsulated PostScript (EPS) or tagged image file  
format (TIFF) images.  For screen-based presentations, Concurrence Academic  
features a wide variety of PostScript slide transitions such as dissolves,  
wipes and scrolls. Slide sorting can be done on a slide-by-slide basis, or  
entire modules of slides may be moved simultaneously for more rapid sorting  
than conventional "light table"-type sorters allow. Applying styles to large  
presentations is simplified by using master slides for each presentation view.  
Users may create an unlimited number of master slides.

Concurrence Academic easily maintains multiple presentations and outlines as  
views within the same document so that changes made to one presentation or  
outline are automatically propagated to all other views of the document.
	
Concurrence Academic's "Prepare for Mail" feature allows users to assemble  
self-contained presentations and distribute them via NeXT Mail to NeXT users  
running Concurrence Academic anywhere in the world.  In addition, users can  
create auto-repeating on-screen presentations for applications such as  
conferences and information centers. 


Price and availability

Concurrence Academic is currently shipping and available. For price information  
contact NeXT Connection at (800)800-NEXT. Institutions interested in site  
licenses should contact Lighthouse Design directly at +1-301-907-4621.
	
	
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Lighthouse Design, Ltd., a privately held company headquartered in Chevy Chase,  
Maryland, is dedicated to developing and marketing software for NeXT STEP  
computers.  A portion of Lighthouse Design's profits is contributed annually to  
charity.

Concurrence Academic and Diagram! are trademarks of Lighthouse Design, Ltd.   
NeXT, NeXT STEP, the Digital Librarian, and NeXT Mail are trademarks of NeXT  
Computer, Inc.  All other brand names mentioned are trademarks or registered  
trademarks of their respective owners.