desktop presentations

The creation of charts, graphs and other graphics-oriented information on a computer. It implies a wide variety of special effects for both text and graphics that produce output for handouts and slides. See presentation graphics.

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This issue of Communication World will give you a closer look at three of the remaining desktop frontiers: prepress operations, file storage and desktop presentations. [Chart 1 to 9 Omitted]

Pushing back the desktop frontier: or...how the desk was won!

We've always been a bit baffled by the imaginary line that separates presentation graphics programs (which create fancy graphs and charts, often in the form of slides and overheads) and desktop presentations products (which also create slides and overheads, usually with text content).

The leading desktop presentations packages--especially Microsoft's new Windows 3 version of PowerPoint, Symantec's More 3 for the Mac, and IBM's unannounced Hollywood product (which we've seen under non-disclosure) all include very powerful graphing and charting modules.

A shake-out in presentations?

Desktop Presentations Inc., a market research firm, predicts that the worldwide desktop presentation market--software tools, hardware systems and supplies--will grow to $7.1 billion by 1992 from about $2.4 billion in 1987.

Desktop video and multimedia

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