Organize photos, graphics, sound, and video files into interactive presentations with chapter, outline, index, and slide show features. Save files stored in documents back to disk. Flexible and easy to use.
The basic unit of an Inform! document is a window, which can be thought of as pages in a book. You can have as many windows as you want, each with its own caption, background color or gradient color, or picture as background. You can also make objects on top of pictures temporarily invisible, and associate an audio or video file with the window that can be played once, several times, or indefinitely. Additionally, one or more windows can act like a slide show, each displayed for 1/2 second to one minute.
With previous and next page arrows, you can easily navigate through your document, or create your own custom navigation methods. You can also organize windows (pages) into sections like chapters of a book, and create as many outlines and alphabetically ordered indexes as you want.
One of the best features of Inform! is that each window can have 8 types of object in any quantity you want. Labels can be any color or transparent, with text in any font, size, and style. Image boxes are perfect for holding pictures, which can be displayed at actual size, and can be associated with a picture, sound, video, or ANY file. Additionally, three types of text boxes are available, including one that allows for multiple fonts, sizes, styles, and colors. Combo and list boxes can also contain unlimited entries, each one of which can have a file associated with it for display.
You can even place as many video windows as you want on a page. And when you're finished creating your document, you can edit lock it and distribute it freely with I_Review. Overall, Inform! is a feature-filled suite of programs that is perfect for anyone looking to create their own interactive multimedia presentations.
Version 1.0: First release