Slide Executive Desktop - New features
What's new in version 2.0
July 2007
Slide Executive version 2.0 is a technical upgrade to version 2.0 of the .Net Framework. It is also an upgrade
which enables Slide Executive to support Windows Vista. Read through this page for brief summaries of what's new.
Enhancements:
PowerPoint
Slide Executive now fully supports Microsoft PowerPoint 2007.
Database
A new database engine is used which will greatly reduce the download size of the application.
Bug fixes:
What's new in version 1.5
August 2006
Here is a list of the new and revised features in Slide Executive Desktop, released in August 2006.
Read through this page for brief summaries of what's new.
Enhancements:
Performance
The performance when handling large presentation within the application has
been improved significantly.
Export
It is now possible to export presentations while keeping each slides individual design.
PowerPoint
Slide Executive Desktop now supports Microsoft PowerPoint 2007 Beta 2.
Database engine
A new database engine is used that supports larger presentation better.
Bug fixes:
What's new in version 1.4
April 2006
Here is a list of the new and revised features in Slide Executive Desktop, released in April 2006.
Read through this page for brief summaries of what's new.
Enhancements:
Help
Some minor improvements to the help have been done.
Bug fixes:
Export error
Error occuring when using the regular export functionality.
Known issues:
Indexing
While indexing a presentation using PowerPoint 2002
SP2 or 2003 a dialog box is opened, stating that "This presentation cannot be
edited because it contains a read-only embedded font." This behavior
occurs when the presentation contains an Embedded Read Only font. This
makes the presentation restricted to read-only.
To resolve this behavior, open
the presentation in an earlier version of Microsoft PowerPoint and resave the
presentation without embedding any fonts.
Please see the following Microsoft KB article for more information.
What's new in version 1.3
January 2006
Here is a list of the new and revised features in Slide Executive Desktop, released in January 2006.
Read through this page for brief summaries of what's new.
Enhancements:
Quick Export
When performing a Quick Export it is now possible to either use a pre-selected template or to use a design from one of the slides being used in the virtual presentation.
Send feedback
We value the feedback of our customers and to
simplify this for our customers we've added a way to send feedback anonymously
from within the application.
New licensing model
As
from this version we have removed the non-commercial use of the application.
This means that after
the 21-days trial period the application will shut down and only activation will be available.
Bug fixes:
Known issues:
Indexing
While indexing a presentation using PowerPoint 2002
SP2 or 2003 a dialog box is opened, stating that "This presentation cannot be
edited because it contains a read-only embedded font." This behavior
occurs when the presentation contains an Embedded Read Only font. This
makes the presentation restricted to read-only.
To resolve this behavior, open
the presentation in an earlier version of Microsoft PowerPoint and resave the
presentation without embedding any fonts.
Please see the following Microsoft KB article for more information.
What's new in version 1.2
September 2005
Here is a list of the new and revised features in Slide Executive Desktop, released in September 2005.
Read through this page for brief summaries of what's new.
Enhancements:
The working area
The presentation of slides has been enhanced to support two different views. The first view is the same as before with fixed columns
where the slide width is dynamically changed as the form resizes. The second view is the opposite to the current view with a width
for the slides that is adjustable with a slider.
It's now possible to multiple select slides by checking the checkbox next to it in addition to using CTRL-Click.
It's now possible to drop slides in the first and last column on all rows.
Zooming in on a slide
It is now possible to zoom in on a slide by pressing the CTRL and + keys or by using a magnify icon on a slide. If
you have previously selected slides this possibly will enable you to enlarge a slide without loosing your selections.
Improved re-indexing
When re-indexing a modified presentation, all virtual presentation links will now be kept intact.
Enhanced slide zoom mode
With a specific setting enabled, the program will create vector-based slides to show in zoomed in mode.
Smarter indexing rollback
Slide Executive
Desktop will no longer rollback presentations that have been successfully indexed if an
error occurs during indexing.
Search in presentation
It is now possible to search in just one presentation.
Creating a new virtual presentation
Creating a new virtual presentation does no longer require you to immediately decide its location.
Bug fixes:
Indexing
Numerous fixes in the indexing process.
Positioning and size save
The program will now remember and restore the positioning and size of the Folders and
Search panels.
Known issues:
Indexing
While indexing a presentation using PowerPoint 2002
SP2 or 2003 a dialog box is opened, stating that "This presentation cannot be
edited because it contains a read-only embedded font." This behavior
occurs when the presentation contains an Embedded Read Only font. This
makes the presentation restricted to read-only.
To resolve this behavior, open
the presentation in an earlier version of Microsoft PowerPoint and resave the
presentation without embedding any fonts.
Please see the following Microsoft KB article for more information.