We have big news. :)
As KeynotePro begins its 7th year of business we are expanding into new territories, bringing our stylish and functional themes to PowerPoint. If you’re one of the many customers who has asked over the years if we also made themes for PowerPoint, felt hamstrung by the limitations of exporting your presentation or are a lone Keynote user in a company full of PowerPoint enthusiasts, we invite you to take a short trip to OfficeDocsPro.com and see what PowerPoint is truly capable of. We’re very pleased with the PPT-optimized versions of some of our most popular themes, and think you will be too.
Our PowerPoint journey began in an unexpected way. Over the past few years, our studio has had the good fortune to work directly with Microsoft on Office:Mac 2008 and the Office 2010 Beta, developing a number of the themes and templates included in the Office applications themselves. It was a fantastic opportunity to work directly with developers as we learned the new THMX format from the inside out.
If you’re used to the classic 3-Master-Slide model that still dominates the off-the-shelf PowerPoint market, you might not be aware that Microsoft Office 2007 ushered in a newer theme architecture: THMX.
THMX is an advanced document theme system that Microsoft created to make it easier to apply presentation or document-wide settings - such as fonts, colors and effects – to any compatible document type. You might think of it a bit like you would of a style-sheet applied to a website, except that you could also apply the particular fonts and color scheme details from that style-sheet to a presentation to investors, or to your latest letter to shareholders, too - and the style details would remain absolutely consistent between all of those documents.
In short, it’s a big evolution over the old-school design templates metaphor, and it’s at the heart of every one of our themes at OfficeDocsPro.
Now, all of that said – we are by no means ceasing, or even slowing, our development for iWork: it just means that our themes are now available in even more ways than they were before. That, and you guys now have a better idea of why we kept getting really quiet the last couple of years ;) We feel incredibly lucky to do what we do – now we’re simply able to do it on a larger scale than ever before.
We have big things planned for both sites in the coming months… stay tuned.
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