Impatica is pleased to announce the release of Impatica for PowerPoint Mac OS X Edition Version 4.0. This release marks another milestone for Impatica's flagship product, Impatica for PowerPoint. Impatica for PowerPoint is desktop software that enables educators, subject matter experts and business professionals to deliver engaging Microsoft PowerPoint presentations for online and mobile viewing.

What's New

New features for Impatica for PowerPoint Mac OS X Edition Version 4 include:

• Support for the PowerPoint 2007 file format
• Support for Intel-based Mac OS X computers
• Adjustable, scalable playback area
• Full screen viewing capabilities
• Enhanced logging
• Support for PowerPoint 2007 multi-stop gradients such as rainbow
• Expanded audio support in the PowerPoint 2007 file format (any audio format supported by QuickTime)
• New graphics and color scheme for User Interface

Upgrade your current Impatica for PowerPoint Mac OS X Edition to Version 4 before September 30, 2007 and save 33% off the list price. Contact your Impatica Sales Representative or sales@impatica.com for more details.

Registering Impatica for PowerPoint Version 4

New Version means new registration information.

Impatica for PowerPoint Version 4 features a new installer program that requires a different set of registration information than previous Versions. If you enter a previous set of registration information into Version 4, you will receive a message saying that your registration information is invalid.

You can check to see if you are eligible for a free upgrade to Version 4 by visiting the Check Upgrade Eligibility page on our website. You simply enter the "Name" and "Organization" associated with your Version 3 registration code into the form on that page and click the "Check Eligibility" button.

If you are eligible for the free upgrade, you will be emailed a new set of registration information. If you are not eligible for the upgrade, please contact Impatica Customer Support and we will look into the matter for you.

If you are a site or departmental license customer, you can email Impatica Sales to get your Version 4.0 registration information.

Resizing Your Impaticized Presentation

With Impatica for PowerPoint Version 4, the HTML that gets generated has changed from Version 3 in that the size of the applet produced is now controlled by a percentage instead of an absolute height and width.

For example, with Version 3, a 6" x 4.5" slide size would have resulted in a java applet that was 432 x 348 pixels. The HTML created by Impatica for PowerPoint would have specified WIDTH = "432" HEIGHT = "348".

With Impatica for PowerPoint Version 4, regardless of the size you specify in PowerPoint, the outputted HTML will always say WIDTH = "100%" HEIGHT = "100%".

If you are savvy enough with HTML, you could open the HTML file in Notepad and change the width and height values to an absolute number instead of a percentage and the presentation should scale accordingly.

Impatica software works with a 72 pixels per inch resolution. Given that, if you want your applet to match the size of your PowerPoint slide, simply change the vales to match your "Page Set-up" width and height settings from PowerPoint.

e.g., using a standard PowerPoint slide dimension:

Width = 10"
Multiply this by 72 pixels per inch = 720

Height = 7.5"
Multiply this by 72 pixels per inch = 540

Adjust the width and height settings in the Impatica HTML file as described above to be 720 and 540 respectively.

For more information on sizing, please see the following slide dimension chart (PDF format).