Presentations

What works

File menu (with enhanced file dialogues disabled)

New - New From Project - Close - Save - Save As
Properties
Page Setup - Print - Internet Publisher - Publish To
Recent File List
Exit

Edit menu

Undo - Redo
Cut - Copy - Paste
Delete - Delete Slide(s) - Delete Layout - Delete Background - Rename Layout - Rename Background - Clear
Edit Text - Select - Arrange
Slide Layer - Layout Layer - Background Layer
Find and Replace - Go To List

View menu

Play Slide Show
Toolbars - Ruler - Grid/Guides/Snap
Crosshair - Selected Object Viewer - Reveal Codes
Slide Editor - Slide Outliner - Slide Sorter
Zoom - Zoom In - Zoom Out

Insert menu

Symbol - Date/Time
Graphics (Clipart) - Data Chart - Organization Chart
New Slide - New Layout - New Background

Format menu

Font - Line - Paragraph - Justification - Manual Kerning
Title Properties - Subtitle Properties - Bulleted List Properties - Object Properties - Slide Properties
Master Gallery - Background Gallery - Layout Gallery - Re-Apply Layout

Tools menu

QuickCorrect
Workspace Manager - Settings

Window menu

Cascade - Tile Top to Bottom - Tile Side by Side
Windows List

Help menu

About Presentations

What does not

File menu (with enhanced file dialogues enabled)

Open - Save As
Send To

View menu

Auto Select - Show Pointer Position

Insert menu

Graphics (TextArt etc) - Shape - Text Box - Text Line - Bulleted List
Comment - Equation - Sound - Movie - Animated Gif - Spreadsheet - File - Object

Tools menu

Spell Checker - Grammatik - Thesaurus - Dictionary

Help menu

Help Topics - Macro Commands - CorelTUTOR - PerfectExpert - Corel on the Web
Microsoft PowerPoint Help

Workarounds

What was not tested

File menu

Show on the Go

Edit menu

Paste Special
Links - OLE Play Settings

View menu

Play Movie

Format menu

Movie Properties

Tools menu

Macro - Visual Basic
Trace Text - Trace Bitmap - Convert to Bitmap - Resample Bitmap
Image Tools - Blend - Quick3-D - QuickWarp - Contour Text - Convert to Polygon
Custom Audiences - SpeedLink List

Hardware tested

Graphics:

• GPU:
• Driver:

Additional Comments

The menus change with context. Not all were tried. All drawing functions seemed inactive. Editing of data and organisation charts was not attempted. Opening of documents in Microsoft PowerPoint format did not seem reliable. Saving such documents even less so. Better than earlier Presentations versions - no horrid crashes in libc - but when this baby crashes it does so in style.

By default, Corel Presentations uses 'enhanced' (Explorer-like) file dialogues. These do not work under Wine. Presentations will probably crash or hang opening an existing slide show or saving a new one unless the enhanced dialogues are disabled first.

Start Presentations. Select Settings... under the Tools menu. Select Environment > Options. Uncheck the "Use enhanced file dialogs" box. Click OK. Click Close.

For the save of a new document, your chances of success are greater if you use File > Save As instead of File > Save.

File > Save As (or File > Save of a new document) presents a dialogue window with a drop-down list that allow you to select the format in which the document is to be saved.

This list may be empty. All documents saved so far in these circumstances have been corrupt beyond further use. Cancelling the dialogue and trying again has been known to work.

The horizontal and vertical toolbars (the Property Bar, Application Bar and Drawing Palette) appear not to be displayed. They are, but their height/width is too small to notice.

The tool bars can be restored to health by deleting corrupt entries from the Wine registry. These entries must be deleted beforehand each time Presentations is started. The following shell script should do the trick:

#!/bin/sh
ver=13;
cpc="Software\\Corel\\Corel Presentations\\${ver}\\Customize";
root="HKEY_CURRENT_USER";
wine regedit /D "${root}\\${cpc}\\Property Bar";
wine regedit /D "${root}\\${cpc}\\Tool Palette";
wine regedit /D "${root}\\${cpc}\\Toolbar";
exit;

The drawing functions do not work.

Try View > Show Pointer Position. The pointer position is displayed in the bottom left-hand corner of the window. This shows 0cm,0cm for all positions within the window. The drawing canvas is a singularity.

It is possible to drag-and-drop slide components (such as the title). However all attempts to do this seem to move the element off the top left-hand corner of the window. This is probably another consequence of the 0cm,0cm pointer position.

Finger trouble may result in a slide element being dragged-and-dropped off the top left-hand corner of the window and it is not possible to drag-and-drop the element back to where is came from. Control-Z will undo the drag-and-drop if used immediately. When it is too late to use Control-Z, try recovering the situation using Format > Reapply Layout.

Corel Presentations should be able to open and save Microsoft PowerPoint format slide shows. However, this is less an open/save operation pair and more an import/export operation pair.

Open of and save as slide shows in PowerPoint format does work. However, in testing some slides (title only slides ?) were blank. Presentations seems happy saving slide shows in PowerPower point format and reopening these later.