For Immediate Release
For More Information Contact:
Mike Soucie — Electric Rain, Inc.
Phone: (303) 543-8233
Fax: (303) 543-8225
Email: msoucie@erain.com
ELECTRIC RAIN RELEASES CONVEXION FOR CONVERTING MICROSOFT OFFICE
POWERPOINT 2007 PRESENTATIONS TO MICROSOFT SILVERLIGHT
New Office PowerPoint 2007 Add-in converts slideshows into Silverlight-based presentations
with full animation fidelity and easy deployment to the Web.
Boulder, CO – October 19, 2009 – Today Electric Rain
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released Convexion™ converter for Microsoft
Office PowerPoint 2007. Convexion is the first Add-in of its kind to convert Office PowerPoint 2007
slideshows to Microsoft Silverlight-based presentations while retaining the animation scheme and
accurate slide layout. Convexion allows Office PowerPoint 2007 users to produce cross-platform, Web-
deployable presentations with the click of a button.
Electric Rain Convexion works as an Add-in for Office PowerPoint 2007. The converter is accessed from
the Office PowerPoint 2007 menu system and shows up directly in the Ribbon toolbar when active. Users
can expose a Converter Settings interface where they have control over basic export options such as
presentation size, image resolution, player style, etc. Once converter settings have been adjusted the
conversion to Silverlight is handled through a single button click within the Office PowerPoint 2007
Ribbon.
There are two versions of the Add-in available, Convexion Standard and Convexion Pro. The standard
version provides presenters, businesses, and educators the ability to convert presentations to the
Silverlight format as .XAP + HTML files ready for publishing to web sites, or to Windows Presentation
Foundation (WPF) format as a single .EXE file for desktop playback and easy single-file sharing and
distribution. The Pro version of Convexion is for professional designers and developers and adds the
ability to export the converted presentation to a XAML project for each of Silverlight or WPF formats so
they ca