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Create Interactive Multimedia Publications
and Applications in a Few Easy StepsNeoBook allows just about anyone to produce royalty-free, professional quality, electronic publications. It easily integrates text, images, sound, music, animation, interactive controls, color and other graphical elements to create stunning multimedia productions. NeoBook can be used to produce electronic magazines (e-zines) that can be distributed over the Internet, interactive educational and training materials, CD-ROM interfaces, electronic books, reference works, brochures, catalogs, and entertainment titles, and much more.
NeoBook's easy-to-use, floating tool bar allows you to construct applications using simple drag-and-drop commands. It's simple to setup hotspots, command buttons, text entry fields, check boxes and other interactive controls. Quickly create an interface that allows readers to turn pages, enter responses, pop up messages, play multimedia files, run other software, do math calculations, launch a browser to your internet site, and more.
NeoBook's spelling checker makes sure your publications are error free. And when you're finished with your masterpiece, you can even compile your creations into a stand-alone Windows application (EXE) or screen saver (SCR), which you can distribute without royalties! NeoBook can even create a custom setup program for your project, complete with compression and multi-disk capabilities. For additional information, see our detailed NeoBook Fact Sheet below.
Computer-Based Training
Educational Materials
Multimedia Newsletters
Reports and Presentations
Sales Tracts and Catalogs
Reference Materials
Electronic Magazines
Illustrated Interactive Books
Promotional Material
Interactive Kiosk Displays
Advertising
Custom Screen Savers
and much more...
Price: $199.95*
Summary:
NeoBook Professional for Windows 95, 98 and NT retains all of the power and ease of use of previous versions of NeoBook, plus adds many new features to take advantage of these 32-bit Windows platforms. Even non-programmers can quickly create and publish many types of interactive, multimedia software.
NeoBook allows you to easily create interactive, computer-based multimedia publications for distribution via diskette, CD, network, internet, etc. Buttons, images, text, sound, animation and other elements of the electronic publication are arranged on the screen, then compiled into self-contained EXE files which may be distributed royalty-free.
Features:
- Drag and drop text, images and command buttons for quick creation of publications
- Import and convert projects from NeoBook for DOS
- Create push buttons, text entry fields, check boxes and radio buttons for user input
- Internet command links your publication to specific web sites (browser required)
- Assign a unique color palette to each page in 256-color mode
- Add hypertext links to imported text files
- Functions for computer-based training and scoring
- Automatically create Setup (installation) programs for your publications, complete with compression and multi-disk capabilities
- Special transition effects between pages, such as wipes, dissolves, weaves, etc.
- Read and write to external data files to store and retrieve information
- Integrated 100,000 word spelling checker
- Play sound, music, video, animation and other multimedia files
- Create and play your own animated “cartoons” using the included NeoToon module
- Launch other Windows or DOS programs (including other NeoBook publications)
- Send keystrokes to other Windows applications
- Access your favorite word processor, sound editor, animation editor and/or paint program directly from NeoBook to edit text, images, audio and animation clips
- Each button/action script can contain up to 32k of instructions
- Titles, captions, rule lines, background wallpaper, and other graphic elements may be placed anywhere in the publication with your choice of fonts, colors and patterns
- Display text files and images with optional transparency and scroll bars
- Use the Master page to set up common command buttons and elements across all or selected pages
- Powerful scripting language with conditional statements, variables, file i/o, looping, etc.
- Preview and debugging tools
- Compiler assembles your publication into a single 32-bit Windows executable (EXE) program or screen saver (SCR), which you may distribute to others - without royalties!
- Automatically return to the initial screen page and/or other events when the publication sits idle for a specified period of time
- Readers may use mouse, keyboard, or both
- Includes sample publications, templates and many other powerful features
Supported File Types:
Imports ASCII/ANSI and Rich Text (RTF), supported by most word processors and text editors. Most common image file formats may also be imported, including JPEG, BMP, PCX, GIF, PNG, WMF, etc. Supports True Type fonts. Plays AVI, WAV, MIDI, FLI, FLC, CAR and other multimedia formats.
Script Language Commands:
For advanced users, NeoBook provides a versatile scripting language for creating even more powerful publications. Script actions can be entered manually by experienced users or selected from a list and entered interactively by filling out a simple template. NeoBook's action commands include:
AlertBox - display an alert dialog box
Balloon - display a cartoon style popup balloon
CloseWindow - close a previously opened window
Delay - pause for a specified number of milliseconds
DOSCommand - run an external DOS or Windows program
ExecuteAddOn - extend NeoBook with third party add-ons
Exit - exit/close the publication
FileCopy - copy a file
FileDelLine - delete a line from an external data file
FileErase - delete a file
FileExists - determine if an external file is present
FileInsLine - insert a line into an external data file
FileLen - count the number of lines in an external data file
FileRead - read a line from an external data file
FileWrite - write a line to an external data file
Find - search for text
GotoPage - display a specific page in the publication
GotoFirstPage - display the first page
GotoLastPage - display the last page
GotoNextPage - display the next sequential page
GotoPrevPage - display the previous sequential page
GotoLine - jump to a line or label in the current script
If - change the flow of a script based on a comparison of two variables
ImageWindow - display an image file in a moveable window
InternetLink - launch the default Internet browser
Math - perform a mathematical calculation
MCICommand - send a command to a Windows multimedia device
Menu - display a popup menu
MenuEx - display a popup menu with a variable
MessageBox - display a custom message box
PlayCartoonFile - play a NeoToon animation file
PlayFlicFile - play a Flic format animation file
PlaySoundFile - play an audio sound or music file
PlayTone - play a tone specified in hertz
PlayVideoFile - play a video/animation file
PopupImage - display an image file with an optional special effect
PrintDataFile - print an external ASCII data file
PrintImageFile - print a bitmap image file
PrintPage - print a specific page from the publication
PrintSetup - display the Windows print setup screen
PrintTextFile - print a formatted text file
Random - generate a random number
ReturnToPage - return to the last page viewed by the reader
SearchStr - search for a string of characters within a text string
SendKeys - send keystrokes to other Windows applications
SetFont - change the font used for printing and displaying text files
SetVar - assign a value to a variable
SoundBuzzer - play an error type tone
StickyNote - display a yellow sticky note with a message
StopMedia - stop individual or all playing media files
StrDel - delete characters from a text string
StrIns - insert characters into a text string
StrLen - count the number of characters in a string
SubStr - copy a portion of a text string to a variable
SystemInfo - obtain basic information about the computer
TextWindow - display a text file in a moveable window
While - repeat a series of actions until a specified condition is metSystem Requirements:
Windows 95, 98 or Windows NT 4.x or 5.x
A hard disk with 10 MB free space
Mouse or other Windows-supported pointing device
Windows-supported audio card (optional)Download a Trial Copy Here
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Here's what the press is saying about NeoBook:
Bob Schwabach, Universal Press Syndicate:
"This is an impressive piece of work. Though its business and instructional uses are easy to visualize, I would like to see it given to children and students. You can create almost anything. It is not just a teaching tool but a learning tool par excellence.
"This is a remarkable program and aptly named; it seems likely that new books will be done in this multimedia fashion in the near future."
Medical Software Review:
"Just when you thought it couldn't get any easier to produce multimedia, along comes a program that redefines ease of use." In a direct comparison between NeoBook Pro for Windows and ToolBook II, Director Studio, Icon Author, Quest and others, NeoBook was rated highest in ease of learning, performance and speed.
PCM Magazine:
"NeoBook Pro's button filled graphical interface lets you put together publications having - of all things - a button-filled graphical interface! It's so easy to use, you can knock out a test 'book' in executable (.EXE) format, ready to distribute, in less than an hour - and that includes skimming the docs!"
Colin Haynes, author of Paperless Publishing (McGraw-Hill) and How to Succeed in Cyberspace (The Association for Information Management):
"I recommend NeoBook as one of the best digital publishing programs in my McGraw-Hill book Paperless Publishing and in Writer's Digest's first cover story on self-publishing in the digital media. NeoBook was chosen also for the disk of software that accompanied my book and I have demonstrated it with complete confidence at seminars in the US, Europe and Africa over the past three years. Many of my readers who have published with NeoBook have achieved excellent results.
"Now, in its latest Windows format, NeoBook is even more versatile and reflects a higher degree of dedicated and professional development than many of the expensive shrink-wrapped programs that I get to review. If you have the latest Windows system, or if you are still using a computer running only DOS - as millions of people around the world must do - you can choose an appropriate version of NeoBook that is easy to use, fast and achieves professional results.
"Whether you are an author seeking to self-publish a novel on a limited budget, or a corporation with major catalogue or other business digital publishing projects, you should check out NeoBook. It remains one of the most reliable and functional publishing tools available."
CD-ROM Multimedia:
"NeoBook is a full-featured multimedia authoring system which produces disk-based interactive documents such as newsletters, books, electronic catalogs and educational materials ... It lets you easily create multi-page documents with images, text blocks, wallpaper backgrounds and hot-spot buttons."
PC Graphics & Video:
"A well-designed program that brings inexpensive but very functional electronic publishing to consumers, with professional-level capabilities and options at a utility price."
Computer User:
"An affordable yet versatile multimedia authoring tool. NeoBook Professional is suitable for producing presentations onscreen or on CD-ROM or floppy disk. Because the presentation in its final form is a standalone EXE file, you could even post the presentation on a Web site or use it on a kiosk."
CD Information Center:
"This one's fun to use. In fact, I would have been finished writing this review earlier, save for the fact that I was so busy playing with it. I'd say NeoBook was an excellent introduction for newbies to multimedia - but I just found a CD-ROM magazine in U.K. that uses it for its menu, so it's quite adequate to get a reasonably professional job done."