Acrobat.com release "PowerPoint for the web"

[Kris777]

http://blogs.zdnet.com/igeneration/?p=1735



This post was under embargo until 12:01am today, which makes it around 5am in London. Zack Whittaker is sleeping away in mere ignorance of this post going live, so any edits will be made when he wakes up… at 3pm.

Within the last few minutes, Adobe Acrobat.com Labs have released Presentations, an online presentation tool which rivals that of the PowerPoint web application.

As Office web applications, part of Office 2010, are slowly being developed in the background under the shroud of Microsoft’s iron curtain, Adobe are marching forwards with their online office suite - aimed at those who work on the web, in the cloud, and from multiple locations.

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Movies, specifically those in .flv format and much more media formats later on, can be embedded easily into your presentations. All Microsoft formats will be supported and if the need is wanted by users, there is no prevention from bringing in any file type they want.

Finally, as most presentation software on the web is “read-only”, allowing you to import your slides in and present from anywhere, Presentation is write allowed, allowing you to import, edit, create and export again. At the moment you can only export into PDF, but over time it will export to all Buzzword formats (including .doc, .docx, .xml, .rtf, .zip, .txt, .odf and .epub) as well as PowerPoint 2003/2007 formats.