From power presentations to picture portfolios, simple slideshows to sophisticated software samplers, web pages to educational materials, everyone has a story to tell. Whether you're a professional multimedia developer, or you merely want to create an interactive greeting card for your family, Illuminatus 4 contains everything you need to harness the power and excitement of interactive multimedia communications and share your stories with the world in whatever format you choose.

Versatile authoring tools

• Custom text scrollbars allow more versatile presentations of your messages
• Hypertext links allow you to easily move from page to page in your presentation
• Variable transparency and irregular shapes for objects, including video
• Fully control the color and font of standard buttons
• Improved graphical button support
• Object layering allows you to define foreground and background elements
• Multiple actions per object let you define any number of options
• Irregularly shaped hotspot areas will fit any design criteria
• Tiled graphics for pages and frames
• Text can be displayed as text or graphics
• Includes a number of frame effects including drop shadow, transparency and opacity
• Frame borders include sunken, raised and graphic with full control of the color and thickness
• Full control of individual frames of slideshows including timing and effect
• Easily establish conditions for specific pages to appear or for the publication to go on
• Preset variables allow you to track scores or points... perfect for training demos
• Buttons activated on a variety of mouse and keystroke movements
• Unlimited buttons, frames and pages means your presentation can take on any form
• Drag and drop objects within your published presentations
• All objects can have transition effects associated with them
• Special effects and timing for individual slides in slideshows
• Synchronize events with the end or beginning of other events
• Import text, Word, Rich Text Format and HTML into your presentations

Powerful editor

• Three user modes provide basic, intermediate and advanced interface control
• Multiple windows with full control of size, position, title bar, etc.
• On-screen text entry and formatting for easy editing
• Access convenient Component Galleries for commonly used objects
• Flexible publication options
• Export HTML option will create web pages from your multimedia pages
• Publications can be set to play over Windows or at full screen
• Setup program includes installation of system files, icons, etc.
• Publish to Windows 95, Windows NT 4.0, Windows 3.x, Internet and Windows 95 screensaver
• Resizable publications will fit any workspace
• Improved Index facilities help you find any topic you need help on
• Complete printing facilities for editor and publication

Integrated communications

• Add a live view of a web page with the included active Web browser component
• Editor and publication can access Internet resources and/or link to Web sites
• MMX™ technology support in editor and publications brings your multimedia to life!
• AutoNarrate -- automatically highlights text in synch with WAV narration
• Fade background music in and out with custom volume controls

File formats supported

• Music/Sound: MID, WAV
• Animation/Video: AVI, FLC, FLI, GIF, MPG, MOV
• Image: BMP, CGM, CDR, EMF, GIF, JPG, PCD, PCX, PNG, TGA, TIF, WMF, PhotoCD
• Text: TXT, RTF, DOC

System Requirements:

Required: Pentium® processor, Windows 95 or Windows NT 4.0 • 16 MB of RAM • 15 MB of available Hard Disk space • 256-color display adapter

Recommended: Pentium® 166 processor or higher with MMX™ technology • Windows 95 or Windows NT 4.0 or higher • 32 MB of RAM • 40 MB of available Hard Disk space• 24-bit color display adapter