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Presentation Wizard will build self-displaying, interactive slide shows, electronic books and brochures, clickable advertisements, distributable portfolios and all sorts of other multimedia Windows applications. Almost everything it can accomplish requires nothing more than a few mouse clicks. It has a learning curve so short as to make the operation of your feet seem technical and obtuse by comparison.

Presentation Wizard's documents are EXE files – they can be opened on any system which runs Windows 95, 98, 2000 or NT 4.0 or better. They don't require any additional run-times, or another application to open them. They can be freely distributed on disks and CD-ROMs, and over the Internet.

A Presentation Wizard presentation can be thought of as being analogous to a very intuitive book. It consists of a number of pages. Each page can include pictures, animations, sounds and Windows controls such as buttons and list boxes. The pages can turn themselves or wait for their users to click on Next. Unlike the pages of a traditional book, they can talk to their readers if you like. We suggest that you give the readers of your presentations a bit of warning should you have the pages you create do this unexpectedly, 'specially if some of them have weak hearts.

Whether you'd like to be able to e-mail an electronic photograph album to your relatives, distribute sophisticated digital advertisements with a shippable product, allow users of your web page to download a multimedia catalog from your web page or assemble books that would have sent Johannes Gutenberg screaming from his workshop, wondering desperately if wasn't too late to invent the paperclip instead, Presentation Wizard will build your ideas into a complete, professional Windows application.

Presentation Wizard Professional is shareware. We invite you to try it out before you pay for it. Shareware evaluation copies of Presentation Wizard are not crippled – you will be able to check out everything it does.

If you like Presentation Wizard, please register it. The registration fee for this software is $30.00 (US) – plus $5.00 shipping if you'd like a copy sent to you on CD-ROM. Complete ordering information is included in this documentation. See the Terms, Conditions and Legal Dogma document included with this software for the fine print, such as it is.

Registered users of Presentation Wizard are entitled to phone support, notification of upgrades and good karma.

Visit our web page at http://www.mindworkshop.com/alchemy/alchemy.html for the latest versions of Graphic Workshop Professional, GIF Construction Set Professional, Screen Saver Construction Set, Calendar Wizard, Presentation Wizard and all the other Alchemy Mindworks shareware.

Add your e-mail address to the e-mail update list at our web page to be notified of new features of this software as they're released.

Please share this package with your friends and upload it to any bulletin boards and other online media you feel are worthy of it. However, when sharing Presentation Wizard, please distribute the whole, unmodified package. Thanks...

Available on CD-ROM

You can have your registered copy of this application shipped to you on CD-ROM. The CD-ROM also includes shareware evaluation copies of all our other applications, a library of useful Frequently Asked Questions documents, example graphics from our graphic CD-ROM collections, a gallery of web graphics and a library of fifty royalty-free high resolution colour photographs courtesy of IMS Communications.

The availability and contents of the CD-ROM are subject to change without notice – the lawyers made us say that.

Presentation Wizard is not available on floppy disks.

Order On Line

You can order on line at our web page https://www.mindworkshop.com/orderform.html or visit our main page at http://www.mindworkshop.com/alchemy/alchemy.html and click on any of the blue key icons, shown here, to access the secure server.

Order by Phone

Call our toll-free order desk at 1-800-263-1138 from Canada and the United States. Please see our web page at http://www.mindworkshop.com/alchemy/tollfree.html to access our order desk from overseas. The order desk is available 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

Please note that Alchemy Mindworks' offices may move in the future. If you attempt to reach one of our 905-area code numbers and it is not in service, please visit our web page for our new numbers. This will not affect our toll-free ordering numbers.

Order by FAX

You can FAX your order to 1-905-936-9502. Please use the order form included with this software. Note that because the order form is a Windows WordPad document, rather than an HTML document, your web browser may display a security warning when you select this link. This is normal, and can be ignored.

Please note that Alchemy Mindworks' offices may move in the future. If you attempt to reach one of our 905-area code numbers and it is not in service, please visit our web page for our new numbers. This will not affect our toll-free ordering numbers.

Order by Snail-mail

You can mail your order to:

Please use the order form included with this software.

If you're paying by a cheque drawn on a bank outside North America, please be sure to make your cheque payable in US dollars. Your cheque must have the address of a North American clearing office and a bank transit number printed on it. Please do not send us Eurocheques – they cannot be cleared outside Europe.

Note that when you send us your order – and then when we send you your software – two distinct post offices get to deal with the ensuing mail. It can take a few weeks for things to get through this system – we ask that you be patient. We don't fully understand why it takes less time for a package to get to Australia than it does to send one to Cleveland. Some things are best left as mysteries.

Paying by Plastic

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Documentation

Presentation Wizard is a large, sophisticated application with quite a bit of documentation. It has been structured to help you use the software now and look up whatever you need to know as you learn more about Presentation Wizard.

Introduction and Tutorial: This is a step by step walk-though of the most popular features of Presentation Wizard. It will get you up to speed building presentations. If you read nothing else, read this.

Reference: This is an extensive encyclopedic reference for all the functionality of Presentation Wizard.

ANIMAL Language Reference: This is a complete language reference and tutorial for the ANIMAL language used to write applets under Presentation Wizard.

Registering Presentation Wizard, Contacting Alchemy Mindworks and Technical Support: This is a complete list of media through which you can get in touch with us, and all the relevant dogma about registering this software.

Introduction to Graphic Files: This is a quick introduction to the dark and awesome mysteries of graphic files and the uses to which they're commonly put.

Order Form (ORDER.DOC): This is an order form for use if you'd like to register Presentation Wizard by FAX or snail-mail. It also lists all our other ordering options. Note that because the order form is a Windows WordPad document, rather than an HTML document, your web browser may display a security warning when you select this link. This is normal, and can be ignored.

Other Software: This is a complete description of all the current Alchemy Mindworks shareware.

Drivers: This document explains Windows screen drivers and includes a step by step guide to upgrading your Windows screen driver to get the most out of Presentation Wizard – and most other Windows applications.

Terms, Conditions and Legal Dogma: These are the terms and conditions under which Presentation Wizard may be used and registered. There's nothing really nasty herein, but the lawyers made us say it all anyway.

Bundling Presentation Wizard with Books and Other Products: This is an outline of our policies regarding including Presentation Wizard with third party products.

Problem Report: Please complete this form if you encounter problems with Presentation Wizard. Note that the support form is a web page on our server – you must be connected to the Internet to use it.

What's New (WHATSNEW.DOC): This is the What's New document which displayed during the installation of this software. Note that because this is a Windows WordPad document, rather than an HTML document, your web browser may display a security warning when you select this link. This is normal, and can be ignored.