Is PTE overkill for presentations?

[cumbleton]

Hi,

I'm not yet a user of PTE but am looking for something better than PowerPoint. However, all I intend to do is use it to prepare lectures with pictures that I would advance manually on mouse click (i.e. I don't need presentations that will run themselves). Would PTE be good for that or is it overkill considering all the features I would never use?

[mightec]

Paul

Considering the cost of Basic version of PTE, even if you don't use all of the features, it a steal at $39.00. You will never regret it.

[Lin Evans]

I'm sorry, I don't understand your question exactly - perhaps you can explain. Why do you need something "better" than PowerPoint if all you are doing is showing pictures which you advance manually?

Powerpoint is certainly plenty powerful for that application - in fact much more than necessary so why the need for something "better"??

You can use a simple slide display like IrfanView just show images with no transitions......

Best regards,

Lin

Hi,

I'm not yet a user of PTE but am looking for something better than PowerPoint. However, all I intend to do is use it to prepare lectures with pictures that I would advance manually on mouse click (i.e. I don't need presentations that will run themselves). Would PTE be good for that or is it overkill considering all the features I would never use?

[Conflow]

Paul C,

Yes, I understand your question concerning...'overkill'....but bear with me for a while

because I like you, am engaged in 'Lecture Presentations' of a fairly complex nature.

I have to present:- Reports, Engineering Drawings, Circuit Diagrams and downloads

from Electronic Data Loggers and to do that efficiently I use 'Pictorial-Images' of

everything, even Word Documents and Pdf's, including data for Video Conferences.

Quite frankly 'Power-Point' is cumbersome,unweildly,difficult to annotate and edit,

and IS NOT universal enough to work on every Computer. I know,I have been there

and it simply won't do the job's I want it to do !

PTE 4.48 has never failed me in the past 3 years - It does what I want,when I want.

With V4.48 you can do a Manual-Lecture (like old Slide-Show) even jump from the

program and run a Pdf - then continue- then jump out again and do something else.

Try that with 'Power Point' ~ not a hope. PTE is so flexible and universal and it can

be sent as an EMail Attachment or to a Video Conference or put on a Web Site or

simply downloaded to a Hosting Site and let your client pick it up.

You can put it on a CD or DVD and load it on to a Memory-Pen but MOST IMPORTANT

you have absolute control of the Presentation and its Data Content and how it runs,

you can't do that with Power-Point ~ it want's to run you.

Hope this convinces you of the sheer flexibility of a truly great Program called PTE...

It takes a few hours to master it and there are many Tutorials available.

Brian.Conflow.

[cumbleton]

Thanks for these helpful comments everyone. I guess when I said all I wanted to do is show pictures that I advance manually I was rather understating things. As a phtographer (amateur!!), image quality is important to me and I have encountered various suggestions that Powerpoint handles images comparativley poorly while PTE is said to be much better. I also would like an increased range of better-executed transitions and to improve on the "unweildly and difficult to annotate" aspects of PowerPoint that Brian mentioned and with which I agree. Given the price, the advice to try it and see makes a lot of sense!

[cumbleton]

One final question I forgot to add to the last post. As 'Advance on mouse click' is an important feature to me, which version of PTE should I be aiming for as I see it is not in all versions. I don't need the DVD burning features of the 'Deluxe' version, but does the 'Standard' version have the mouse click feature?

Thanks

[ContaxMan]

One final question I forgot to add to the last post. As 'Advance on mouse click' is an important feature to me, which version of PTE should I be aiming for as I see it is not in all versions. I don't need the DVD burning features of the 'Deluxe' version, but does the 'Standard' version have the mouse click feature?

Thanks

You can use the mouse to control your show in any of the recent versions of PTE.

I gave up Powerpoint years ago - shortly after I started using PTE. PTE is far more versatile, easier to use and the image quality is far better.

[Conflow]

Paul,

For simple:- Forward-Backward-JumpOut-JumpBack-Run ExternalExe-Return

and the "guarantee" that it will run on ALL Windows Operating Systems that

you are likely to encounter in your daily work, I suggest PTE 4.48 which is

available from the WnSoft Site. (PC's will need at least 68mB of User Ram)

And yes,it is single 'click' operation.

PTE 5.01 is designed for more advanced PCs with lots of User Memory (Ram)

with a good Graphics Card and faster Processors such as the Dual-Core types.

PTE 5.01 also contains a 4.48 Engine designed for slower Computers but all

the "utilities" which you want are not yet fully activated therin.

You can 'upgrade' from V4.48 to V5.10 when these utilities become available.

May I suggest to start with 4.48 as you want to get working, and it also sets

many "ground-rules" which you will need to become familiar with before using

the more advanced V5.00 ~ V5.10.

Best of luck...

Brian.Conflow.

[cumbleton]

Many thanks for all the helpful input. I will download 4.48 and give it a try.