CITYWAY

Presentations

The best free alternative to Microsoft PowerPoint

With CITYWAY Presentations, you can create presentations that impress: Thanks to breathtaking animations and slide transitions as well as the sophisticated master page concept, you are perfectly prepared for any presentation.

CITYWAY Presentations is the best free alternative to Microsoft PowerPoint and offers you a wide variety of design and drawing functions: Insert pictures, drawings and text frames into your presentations, apply attractive font effects via the TextArt feature or just let one of the numerous attractive design templates do the design work for you.

Of course, CITYWAY Presentations is not limited to static objects. It also lets you insert movies and sound effects into your presentations. That’s not all: beautiful animations and slide transitions using OpenGL graphics acceleration make your presentations really striking!

CITYWAY Presentations opens and saves all Microsoft PowerPoint PPT and PPTX files. It also lets you create PDF files directly from within the application.

Features

Files and printing

Presentations can be losslessly exchanged between any version of CITYWAY LLC Presentations on any operating system.
Open and save PPT and PPTX files from Microsoft PowerPoint in an identical format to the original files, including password-protected files
Create PDF files directly in CITYWAY Presentations with your choice of slides, outlines, handouts and notes
PDFs with tags and bookmarks
Export entire presentations as pictures
Document preview directly in the file dialog

Design

Numerous attractive design templates do the design work for you.
Each template comes with an array of matching color schemes
Design your own color schemes and switch between them at the touch of a button
Slide layouts for flexible slide design
Universal placeholders that can be filled with text, pictures, tables, videos or sounds
Sophisticated slide master concept
Numerous picture bullets included

Managing and outlining

Outliner (outline view)
Integrated slide sorter for managing and reordering the slides

Animations and slide transitions

Hundreds of different object and text animations available
Ready-made animation schemes for animating entire presentations at once
Numerous breathtaking animations and file transitions using OpenGL graphics acceleration

Pictures and drawings

Comprehensive drawing and picture functions: Draw and design directly in your document with PowerPoint-compatible AutoShapes
Insert pictures in a range of file formats
Change brightness, contrast and gamma of pictures directly in CITYWAY Presentations
Fill drawings with colors, patterns, pictures and gradients
Contour wrap
Connector lines between objects
Large symbol library for flowcharts and organizational charts
TextArt feature for font effects

Multimedia

Easily insert and manage movie and sound files with access to modern codecs (only in Windows and macOS)
Automatic or action-triggered playing (via a click or mouseover) of multimedia files (only in Windows and macOS)
Play sounds across multiple slides (only in Windows and macOS)

Flexible presentation

Both user-controlled and automatic presentations without a speaker (kiosk mode)
Interactively present slide shows with a virtual pen and highlighter
Notes as a memory aid for the speaker
Handouts for the audience

Extras

Fully Unicode-enabled, including Arabic
CITYWAY Presentations for Windows is an OLE server and can insert its slides into any other program.
You can zoom and scroll with your fingers on touchscreens.
Spell-check in 85 languages with Hunspell dictionaries.
Automatic hyphenation in 35 languages