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Glance has no dedicated presentation facilities but its strong application sharing technology lends itself well to the delivery of online presentations.

As the presenter can easily share whatever she selects to place on the screen, it is very easy for her to run a PowerPoint presentation just like it would be run if a projector was connected to the PC. Whatever is displayed on the screen is truthfully translated on the participant screens.

All of the features of PowerPoint are available to the presenter and participants do not need to download any software, plug-in or presentation tool as they are simply watching a "live web site" inside their browsers.

Limitations

Application sharing technology inside Glance delivers 8-bit images to all participants. That means 256-color images. This is done to achieve faster delivery of your screen images to others by compressing your screen image to the best available 256 colors. This is OK for most situations where you are showcasing or demonstrating a software tool or an online service.

Problems start to arise when your screen images contain photographs and richly colored illustrations or graphics. These will not look too good on participant screens and you can have a taste of it by seeting beforehand your own display to 256 colors and looking at the results.

If participants have their monitors set at a lower resolution than the presenter they will see vertical and horizontal scroll bars on their screens and the presentation slides will not appear as fitting their screen properly. To avoid this it is strongly advisable to run presentations with your screen display settings set at the minimum common denominator (likely 800*600).

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Posted on September 24, 2003 at 01:14 PM

Updated on October 17, 2003 at 11:04 AM

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