
PowerPresent ver 1.0 Release notes
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INDEX
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1. Introduction
2. Install
3. Feature List
4. Known Issues
5. Transferring file between Desktop and HPC
6. Limitations
7. Performance figures



1. Introduction:
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PowerPresent is a PowerPoint Editor for Power Point 97 format files. Using PowerPresent one can Create/modify Power Point 97 format files. PowerPresent supports addition, modification and deletion of textboxes, images and basic shapes Viz. line, oval and rectangle.

PowerPresent works on Windows CE 2.11 and above versions of Compaq machines.


2. Install:
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1. Make sure that HPC is connected to your desktop using Windows CE Services.
2. Double click on PowerPresent(v1.0hp).exe on your desktop. 
Install unzips the files in your desktop, copies the required files to HPC and makes the necessary registry changes.


3.Features List:
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1.  Create a new Presentation
2.  Open Presentation
3.  Save and Close Presentation
4.  Creating the look of your Presentation
5.  Working in Different Views
6.  Working with Slides
7.  Working with footer text of Slides
8.  Using Bullets
9.  size to content
10. Implementation of Basic shapes viz Line, rect, Ellipse
11. View/Hide unsupported objects
12. Goto Slide dialog
13. Printing the presentation
14. Help
15. Inserting duplicate slides
16. Undo upto one level for text
17. Footer 
18. Select All functionality implemented
19. Z-order rendering as well as changing the order of different supported objects.
20. Install with the product name changed to the one as suggested by Compaq.
21. PowerPresent added under start->program menu as suggested by Compaq.
22. Levelled text rendering as well as changing of levels is supported.


4. Known Issues:
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1. Image not rendered in duplicate slide if its original is deleted.
Steps: Open a file in PowerPresent which has images (eg file beta-sample.ppt, slide4). Duplicate the slide. Save the file. Transfer it to desktop. Open in MS PowerPoint. Deleted the original slide. Save the file. Re-open  the file (in MS PowerPoint). Since the original slide has been deleted the duplicate slide cannot find the picture information in the picture stream and hence the images are rendered as a cross

Low priority bugs:
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1. Steps: Open file beta-sample.ppt. Go to slide8. Add another bullet to the existing bulleted list and press tab. Left indent should be 1.7 but it becomes 0.5

2. It happens in a single case and is inconsistent. Open file hrpresentation.ppt, add an image to it. The image does not get added. The message given is either Picture data not found in the file or Out of memory for the first added image. After that no message is given and no image is added.

Other Issues:
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1. Only PPT 97 file format is suported. Appropriate error message is given if user tries to open PPT 95 format files.
2. The application has not been tested for PPT2000 format. Preliminary tests for this format shows that only simple files are opened in PowerPresent. PPT 2000 Files with level information are not opened in PowerPresent.


5. Transfering file between Desktop and HPC:
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Transfering the .PPT files in to HPC without converting it
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a. In the Mobile Devices window select "File Conversion" option from the "Tools" menu.
b. Uncheck "Enable file conversion" check box.
c. Transfer the .ppt file from desktop to your H/PC. 
The file gets copied as .ppt to your H/PC.

Transfering the .PPT files on to the HPC by converting it to .ppv format
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a. In the Mobile Devices window select "File Conversion" option from the "Tools" menu.
b. Check "Enable file conversion" check box.
c. Transfer the .ppt file from desktop to your H/PC. 
The .ppt file get converted as .ppv and copied to your H/PC.


6. Limitations :
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Application Limitations:
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1. Shapes with text will be rendered as a textbox.
2. Adding text within a basic shape would not be supported. 
3. Arrows are rendered as lines. 
4. The width supported for basic shapes would be only upto 6 pt.
5. Only lines,rectangles and oval shapes are supported by PowerPresent.
6. If notes text is formatted the formatting will be lost if you modify it.
7. Header/Footer not supported for notes.
8. Notes contain only plain text.
9. Undo upto one level for only text.
10. Only one level bulleted text is supported.
11. Only circular bullets are supported.
12. Textbox formatting like rotation info,border styles,internal margins,anchor points,action 	    settings,animation cannot be set in PowerPresent.
13. Rotation info,border styles,internal margins,anchor points,action settings,animation lost if  text/shape is modified.
14. Pasted text retains the original font properties of its source location.
15. Line spacing not supported.
16. Text properties like subscript,superscript,emboss and shadow not supported by PowerPresent.
17. Cannot add Symbols in text box.
18. Slide background images cannot be viewed in slide view.
19. Only two layouts supported for newly inserted slides.
20. Images of only type .jpg and .png format can be inserted.
21. PowerPresent renders Only .jpg,.png,.bmp,.dib,.rle,.wmf,.tif,.gif,.pct,.wpg image formats.
22. Master slide information cannot be modified.
23. Grouping/Ungrouping actions not provided.
24. Cannot apply design, color scheme to a slide
25. Cannot change/set action transition for a slide.
26. Cannot change/set Border, Fill color/background, Brightness, Contrast, Color 	scheme(Automatic, black&white, etc....), resolution to images
27. Cannot apply fill effects(Gradient,Texture,Pattern,Picture) for fill color of shapes and for background of text box.
28. Cannot change/set shadow, 3D effect to shapes,textbox and images.
29. Cannot change/set action settings or custom animation for shapes,textbox and images.
30. Unsupported object are not duplicated, when slide is duplicated.
31. Slide show is not supported.
32. Editing of slide is not supported in Fit to screen and notes view.
33. One level cannot have indents less than the previous level. If the indent is made higher than the next level, then the indents of the next level is appropriately modified (standard PPT behaviour).


Other limitations :
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1. There seems to be some defference in .ppt to .ppv converter one present in HPC and Desktop.
   Desktop converter converts all objects but Converter present in HPC converts only selected    objects. 
2. Shape line style dashed does not support weights greater than 1.
3. In place of all the OLE controls, a  rectangle with a cross would appear when the file is rendered on H/PC.
4. Support for only Solid & Dashed lines. No support for dot lines,dash dot lines, dash dot dash lines, long dash lines...etc.
5. Transparent controls are not supported.
6. Cannot open multiple files at a time.


Performance figures:
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1. File size 1073KB took 46 sec to open on sh4 machine.
The machine has 32MB RAM and enough memory around 13 MB). Slide navigation time is about 10sec.
2. File size 1021KB file about 1min and 40 sec to open on mips
machine. This m/c has 20MB RAM and only about 5MB memory
Add 504KB image to a newly inserted slide. Save time is 17 sec.
3. File 1737KB takes around 3 min to open under low memory conditions.


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