An equally formidable barrier is Presenter's learning curve, which resembles a brisk climb up Mt. Fuji. Not your everyday presentation program LMSoft Presenter is fundamentally different from PowerPoint. It includes templates you can use to begin projects, but the objects you create enjoy complete autonomy. There are no slide masters or color schemes to determine global styles and formats. And while PowerPoint goes about its business in a very linear way, Presenter's navigation controls are much more elaborate and powerful.
Navigation is limited to hyperlinks on the current slide, and there is no Back button.
In contrast, Presenter will let you create a complete tree structure of a presentation, allowing viewers to move to any slide, any time, in a highly interactive, freeform way. If you've ever felt cramped in the PowerPoint authoring environment, Presenter is worth a look. It supports embedded MIDI files and five animation formats, and it includes a collection of sounds and images that are more professional than the cartoonish clips that come with PowerPoint. The program also offers several truly unique transition effects. Finally, Presenter can publish its presentations to just about any medium, be it a local screen, a CD-ROM or the Internet.