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Astound 5.0 Readme File
Copyright(c)1998 Astound Incorporated
All rights reserved.
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Contacting us:

TECHNICAL SUPPORT
Please have your serial number available, and 
include it in your faxes and e-mails.

E-Mail: Tech@astound.com
Fax: (905)602-0393
Phone:(905)602-5292 Monday-Friday, 10am - 6pm EST

In Europe:

Astound Technical Support
P.O. Box 258
5280 AG Boxtel
The Netherlands

Fax +31 (0) 411-617-105
English +31 (0) 411-619-184
French +31 (0) 411-619-182
German +31 (0) 411-619-183
Dutch +31 (0) 411-619-181

Conferencing
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Check our website for newer versions of the 
software, http://www.astound.com

Conferencing only works with Netscape Navigator 4.0
or Internet Explorer 4.0 or higher.  The Moderator
and the Viewers must have one of these browsers.

If you are taking viewers to web pages that are
not on the same domain (eg. www.astound.com goes to
www.yahoo.com) you may have to manually enter the
URL into the goto URL dialog when using Internet
Explorer. In this case you cannot click on a link
in the browser and have the viewer follow along. In
Internet Explorer you can right mouse click on the link
and select copy, then you can paste the URL into the goto
URL dialog. This is not required under Netscape
Navigator 4.0.

When Moderating a conference, you may notice that the
user interface is not exactly as it appears in the manual.
The new look is functionally equivalent and the help
provided in the manual is still accurate with respect
to using this feature.

Sets
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Astound 5.0 has a new feature called "Sets" that is not
covered in the manual.  Sets are an authoring-time only
feature that allows you to group objects together such
that their visibility can be easily changed.  This means
that without altering the look of your slide for playback,
you can show or hide groups of objects to reduce clutter
on the slide, and make object selection easier.

Select View/Set Manager to view the Set Manager.  In this
window you can select the current Set.  Any object added to 
the slide will be added to the current set.  An object's 
set can be changed in the Quickset window (View/Quickset)
on the Misc. tab.  The Set Manager contains a checkbox for
each set, which control its visibility.

Dynamic HTML
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When using JavaScript to control the web page (the default
in the Distribution Wizard) the only transitions available 
are: cover, uncover, and wipe.  For more transitions 
use Java to control the web pages.