View PowerPoint Presentations with QuickPoint
Cutting Edge Software has released Quickpoint, which allows users to take PowerPoint presentations created on their PC and view them on their handhelds. These can also be modified in a few ways. Notes can be edited and slides can be reordered. Changes made can be synchronized with the PowerPoint version on a desktop.
Quickpoint sells for $30, plus it has been added to Cutting Edge's office suite, Quickoffice Pro. This sells for $50. Current users of Quickoffice can upgrade for $20.
The app provides four possible views of presentations: Outline View, Slide View, Thumbnails (four-up), and Speaker Notes View. Users can zoom in on slides to get a detailed view, important considering many slides will be much larger than a handheld's screen. Quickpoint also has a fit-to-screen mode. It supports Sony hi-res screens.
Cutting Edge has worked hard to make this app work well with the limited memory available on many handhelds. Presentations can be stored on removable memory cards. Users are given the option of saving their presentations in one of five resolution levels and 8-bit or 16-bit color for optimal memory usage.
Cutting Edge was recently purchased by Mobility Electronics, which makes the Pitch, a device that allows handhelds that use Palm's Universal Connector to make presentaions at up to 1024 by 768. Therefore, it comes as no surprise that Quickpoint has built-in support for the Pitch.
It requires Palm OS 3.0 or greater and at least 240 kb of free RAM. On the desktop, it runs on any version of Windows since Win95 and works with PowerPoint 2000 and 2002 (XP). According to the company, a Mac OS X version is coming soon.
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Handera Compatible
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If it is like the other 330 QuickOffice updates, it'll probably be a few days/weeks before there is a special version to support all the 330's features. The slides in landscape mode ought to be slick.
It would be nice if they could support one or more of the CF VGA cards that are out there.
Double byte characters support?
Anyone test this on QuickOffice?
RE: Double byte characters support?
What practical purpose does it serve?
This is a serious question, by the way, not a "What is the point of this software" question.
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RE: What practical purpose does it serve?
What if you want to let someone look over it while on a lunch meeting?
These are all things that are impractical with a laptop, but perfect for a PDA.
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Of course, you can also now get a complete handheld computer in a form factor very similar to a PDA with all the capabilities of a desktop.
I upgraded to QOfficePro today!
choice for resolution- I can adjust file size from 1/6th my original PPT size! DocstoGo gave me no choice. 2) Annotations can be saved! I used this to mark up a ppt on the plane today in QuickPoint & then later referred to it to make my laptop edits tonight! 3) thumbnails- I liked this aspect of the Margi i used to use w/ my Handspring... now I have it back! 4) Great to use FontBucket!
What I don't like: 1) takes too long to see the slides. I know they are bigger than the DocsToGo ones but i want faster loads! 2) NoOutline editing!! C'mon CES!
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