Friday, June 15, 2007
New Gmail PowerPoint Viewer is Weak
So Gmail has a new PowerPoint Viewer. If you send a PowerPoint attachment to a Google Gmail client, they see something like this at the bottom of their email:
When your Gmail recipient clicks on the "View as slideshow" link, a browser window pops up with forward and backward buttons. This lets those with Gmail clients click through the slide portion your ppt file -- without using PowerPoint or other viewing software.
And while that's kind of nice -- here's the downside. Sorry, no pptx files -- only ppt. And no sound, animations, or show notes either. Gotta Mac? Sorry, the new presentation feature does not work for Mac users.
The visual quality of the Gmail slide presentation is weak. In my test, the fonts ran completely amok.
If you'll recall, back in February the blogosphere was breathless with rumors of a Google "PowerPoint Killer". Four months later, this is all Google delivers (so far).
Let's see if Google can soon deliver a presentation product that really lives up to the hype!
So Gmail has a new PowerPoint Viewer. If you send a PowerPoint attachment to a Google Gmail client, they see something like this at the bottom of their email:
When your Gmail recipient clicks on the "View as slideshow" link, a browser window pops up with forward and backward buttons. This lets those with Gmail clients click through the slide portion your ppt file -- without using PowerPoint or other viewing software.And while that's kind of nice -- here's the downside. Sorry, no pptx files -- only ppt. And no sound, animations, or show notes either. Gotta Mac? Sorry, the new presentation feature does not work for Mac users.
The visual quality of the Gmail slide presentation is weak. In my test, the fonts ran completely amok.
If you'll recall, back in February the blogosphere was breathless with rumors of a Google "PowerPoint Killer". Four months later, this is all Google delivers (so far).
Let's see if Google can soon deliver a presentation product that really lives up to the hype!
Labels: Blogging, PowerPoint, Presentation Applications
¶ 6/15/2007 05:13:00 PM
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For what it's worth, the PPT viewer worked just fine (relatively speaking) on my Mac, which is running 10.3.9 and Firefox 2.
Please don't make fun of me for not having Tiger!
Please don't make fun of me for not having Tiger!
I'm sure that Google will ramp this baby up so that it is a heavy competitor against Microsofts dominant program
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I love my Google Docs and Spreadsheets! They're terrific for collaboration and storage -- and they don't waste my time with tons of features that I don't need.
That's one reason I really want to see Google release an online presentation tool, too. I'm concerned, though -- we've been reading too much online hype about code name "Presently" for too long.
The school year resumes in a few short months. Will Google release a presentation product that teachers can quickly learn and begin to use this summer?
That's one reason I really want to see Google release an online presentation tool, too. I'm concerned, though -- we've been reading too much online hype about code name "Presently" for too long.
The school year resumes in a few short months. Will Google release a presentation product that teachers can quickly learn and begin to use this summer?
Some layouts and fonts are displayed improperly in its flash-based powerpoint preview. btw some animations and transitions are awful.
If you really like Flash presentations from PowerPoint, this is not a good choice compared with other PowerPoint to Flash conversion tools such as Wondershare PPT2Flash Standard, Articulate DVD Presenter or FlashSpring Pro, etc.
If you just want a gadget try, this is enough.
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If you really like Flash presentations from PowerPoint, this is not a good choice compared with other PowerPoint to Flash conversion tools such as Wondershare PPT2Flash Standard, Articulate DVD Presenter or FlashSpring Pro, etc.
If you just want a gadget try, this is enough.
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