Insightful, engagingly written and graced with close to a thousand superb illustrations, the Second Edition of this extraordinary volume offers a sweeping narrative that examines architecture as it reflects the social, economic, and technological aspects of human history. A History Of Architecture: Settings And Rituals. Now, updated and expanded, this classic reference continues to bring to readers the full array of civilization's architectural achievements. The country's leading software to help public speakers prepare their slides and print their handouts has added a number of features designed to keep non-designers from making graphical faux pas. Presentation programs such as Harvard Graphics, Microsoft Power Point and Lotus Presentation Graphics have become near-necessities for many executives and sales people who need slick graphics to match those used by competitors in their talks. Harvard's upgrade focuses on quickly letting users put together presentations replete with talking points, pie charts, photos, drawings and other elements. Harvard Graphics 3.0 Harvard Graphics, from Software Publishing Corporation and initially called Harvard Presentation Graphics, is a graphing/plotting/presentation creation application for DOS. It was extremely popular in the late 1980s. The software allows users to import data from other sources such as spreadsheets and databases. Once imported, that data can be charted in a wide variety of formats. A number of 'Quick Presentations' serve as templates for many types of talks, such as annual or quarterly reports, product descriptions or charts comparing one's product with those of the opposition. A 'Design Checker' compares a user's slides with a set of graphics rules created by designers for the product to minimize errors such as putting too many slices in a pie chart or mixing stripes with polka dots in backgrounds. Harvard Graphics 3Contents • • • • History [ ] Harvard Graphics was one of the first desktop business programs that allowed to incorporate text,, and into custom presentations. The original version could import data from or, charts created in Symphony or PFS Graph, and text. It could export text and graphics to and to, also manufactured by SPC. Its use of vector graphics produced mixed results on the and displays common at the time, but output was usually sent to a slide printer or a color. 'Presentation' was dropped from the name for the second release, which came in 1987, developed by Mario Chaves, Carl Hu, Lenore Kirvay, and Dana Tom. Harvard Graphics 2.0 added the ability to import the latest Lotus 1-2-3 spreadsheet data before generating graphics, as well as drawing and annotations for graphs. Harvard Graphics SoftwareVersion 3.0 was not released until 1991, offering improved editing functions, but its graphics and export capabilities were being outperformed by competitors like and. Harvard Graphics was used as bonus product with by Australian Retailer. Harvard Graphics' demise [ ] The market leader through the late 1980s, Harvard Graphics struggled as the market shifted to. SPC released a version for Microsoft in 1991, but its market share never approached the 70% it had commanded in the DOS market; the Windows market came to be dominated by and then the bundle of Powerpoint into. In 1996, purchased exclusive rights to the product line of Harvard Graphics, Inc., and assumed product support responsibilities. As of the mid-2010s, Serif continued to market Harvard Graphics 98 for Windows and other software under the Harvard Graphics brand. References [ ]. Harvard Graphics Presentation Software• Rufener, Sharon L. (May 26, 1986), 'Harvard Graphics Is Easy to Learn and Use', InfoWorld, pp. 47–48 •, archived from on 2007-09-28, retrieved 2010-01-18 • Miller, Michael J. (August 3, 1987), 'Harvard Graphics 2.0: Simplicity Veils Powerful Program', InfoWorld, p. 47 • Fridlund, Alan (July 8, 1991), 'Version 3.0 of Harvard Graphics improves drawing, color features', InfoWorld, p. 72 • Gibbons, Fred (August 9, 1993), 'SPC's Gibbons: High-end Harvard Should Stand Alone', InfoWorld, p. 86 External links [ ] • •.
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