From: dn@well.sf.ca.us (David Newman)
Newsgroups: comp.newprod
Subject: IslandPresents Ships: Presentation Graphics for SPARCstations
Keywords: presentation multimedia island slide overhead presents
Date: 20 Aug 92 22:29:18 GMT
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        ISLAND GRAPHICS DELIVERS ISLANDPRESENTS -- 
        MULTIMEDIA PRESENTATION GRAPHICS FOR SPARC 

           Easy-to-use UNIX Presentation and 
            Business Graphics Application 
              Ships for SPARCstations 
        with Full-Screen Slideshows and Sound


SAN RAFAEL, California, July 31, 1992 -- Island Graphics Corporation
today announced that IslandPresents, an easy-to-use multimedia
presentation and business graphics package for Unix, is now available
for SPARCstations and compatibles using SunSoft's Solaris software
environment.

Island Graphics Corporation is the creator of Island Write, Draw &
Paint, the award-winning, best-selling word processing, desktop
publishing and graphics program for UNIX.

Since IslandPresents' introduction at UniForum in January, Island has
added multimedia features, such as full-screen slideshow transitions,
and support for playback of voice annotation or musical soundtracks
created with the SPARCstation's microphone and audio tool.

This first version of IslandPresents supports the OPEN LOOK graphical
user interface and OpenWindows 3.0.  This Fall, Island will ship a
Solaris 2.0 version for SPARC, as well as an OSF/Motif version for
SPARCstations and the Hewlett-Packard 9000 workstation series.

"IslandPresents is comparable to the leading Mac and PC presentation
graphics packages, yet it takes advantage of Solaris' 32-bit power and
OPEN LOOK user interface," said Peter Watkins, director of developer
marketing for SunSoft. "During several months of beta use at SunSoft
and Sun Microsystems, we have found IslandPresents to be extremely
powerful, yet easy to use."

"Users no longer have to wait for Mac and PC presentation graphics to
be ported to Unix now that IslandPresents, an easy-to-use Unix
solution, is available," said Paul Remer, executive vice president of
Island Graphics. "IslandPresents is the result of listening to the
presentation needs of users of Island Write, Draw & Paint for more than
three years."

Steven Mankoff, Island's Senior Product Manager, concurs. "Until now,
many Unix users have created presentations with the wrong tools -- word
processors and technical documentation programs.  IslandPresents is the
right tool for creating presentations on Unix workstations. Its
professionally designed templates let users create impressive
presentations quickly and easily."

IslandPresents Overview

IslandPresents is an easy-to-use WYSIWYG presentation and business
graphics solution intended for Unix users who need to quickly organize
their ideas into  overhead presentations, 35mm slides, on-screen
presentations, and color handouts.   IslandPresents lets users create
full color presentations containing up to 16.7 million colors,
including 256-color raster graphics.  Users can illustrate their
presentations with clip art from IslandPresents' library of over 1100
images. IslandPresents comes with 35 PostScript fonts, and lets users
add their own Type 1 fonts.

Multimedia features include the ability to display full-screen
presentations on SPARCstations, and drive large screen displays.
On-screen presentations can include transitions such as fades and
wipes, and can be annotated with music or voice segments recorded with
SunSoft's Audio Tool.

IslandPresents includes three tightly linked views of a presentation:
an Outliner, a Slide Editor, and a Slide Organizer.  Users create
presentations in the Outliner, where ideas can be freely rearranged or
regrouped at any time. Slides can be edited individually in the Slide
Editor, with its drawing tools.  The Organizer lets users view the
presentation as a series of thumbnail slides, and reorganize them
easily. IslandPresents also includes charting, table editing and
painting modules.

IslandPresents Features

In the Outliner, the user can create text items or import ASCII text
from other programs. Text items become individual slides, body text,
section markers, or annotations that appear only in speaker's notes.
Sub-items can be expanded and contracted, promoted and demoted, and
dragged and dropped into new locations.  The Outliner also offers
complete word processing features, such as spell-checking and search
and replace.

Slide creation and editing features let users select slide layouts from
over 90 professionally designed presentation templates, and
illustrations from a library of over 1100 editable clip art images.
Users can import color and monochrome TIFF, EPS, and IslandDraw
graphics directly into their slides.  Users can also convert graphics
from HPGL, CGM, PostScript, and Macintosh PICT formats, and edit them
with the Slide Editor's comprehensive set of drawing tools, which
include text, Bezier curve, and gradation editors. The Slide Editor
lets users illustrate slides with charts, tables and raster graphics
created in (and hot-linked to) the charting, table editing and painting
modules of IslandPresents (described below).

Business graphics charting features let users create over 16 types of
data-driven color business graphics with multiple data sets, including
bar, pie and line charts, as well as symbol and X/Y charts. Users can
import Lotus 1-2-3 spreadsheets or ASCII data, and generate single or
multiple charts automatically from any portion of the data.  Data can
also be entered manually.

Table editing features allow users to create tables incorporating
high-quality text and graphics.  The table editor provides an intuitive
auto-grow feature that lets cells expand to fit text.  Graphics can be
imported into cells and cropped or scaled.

Painting features let users retouch scanned images and screen dumps,
and create original art.  IslandPaint offers conversion utilities for
graphics in Sun Raster, MacPaint, Group 3 Fax, X11 Bitmap, X Window
Dump and GIF formats.

Users can create color as well as black and white overhead
transparencies, handouts and speaker notes via PostScript, HP LaserJet,
PaintJet and DeskJet printers, and they can send their files to outside
slidemaking service bureaus.  In the near future, IslandPresents will
provide 35mm color slide output via SCSI interfaces to Polaroid CI-5000
and Agfa film recorders.

Pricing and Availability

A single user network license for IslandPresents lists for $995, and is
available through Island's regular distribution channels, including
Merisel, Access Graphics, and value added resellers. Free complete
30-day evaluation copies are available directly from Island. Current
users of Write, Draw & Paint in the U.S. have been mailed a coupon
which entitles them to purchase IslandPresents for $695 for a limited
time, and customers who purchase Island Write, Draw & Paint together
with IslandPresents will also save $300 over the cost of buying the two
packages separately. Educational pricing is available, as are volume
discounts and site licenses. Island Graphics offers 30-day toll-free
support and optional support and upgrade programs.  Island's toll-free
number is 800-255-4499.

Island Graphics Corporation

Island Graphics Corporation, headquartered in San Rafael, California,
is the leading developer of UNIX desktop publishing and graphic arts
software.  Island's Office Products Division creates award-winning,
easy-to-use word processing, desktop publishing and graphics software
products.  Island products include Island Write, Draw & Paint, the
best-selling desktop publishing program for UNIX, according to
Dataquest, and IslandPresents, a new presentation and business graphics
program for UNIX Workstations. Founded in 1981, Island employs over 150
people, has sales offices throughout the United States, and a European
headquarters in Amsterdam.

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Contact:

        David Newman
        Marketing Manager
        Island Graphics Corporation
        Tel: 415/491-1000 x 111
        Fax: 415/491-0384
        email:  info@island.com
                uunet!island!info

        Diane McGary
        Niehaus/Ryan/Haller Public Relations
        415/615-7911
        email: dmcgary@well.sf.ca.us
               MCI:361 9182 

Note:   Color transparencies of IslandPresents and sample output
        slides are available on request.

        IslandWrite, IslandDraw, IslandPaint, and Island Write, Draw &
        Paint are registered trademarks of Island Graphics
        Corporation.  IslandPresents is a trademark of Island Graphics
        Corporation.  All other trademarks are owned by their
        respective companies.