Impact Labs - PointLESS -- where did it go?

[Beverley]

Does anyone know what happened to PointLESS by Impact Labs? It seems the
company is gone, based the lack of a website at their old domain name. Did
anyone buy the rights to the product, or buy the company? Will there ever
be a new version of it?

I found another program (RnR PPTools Optimizer) that did a similar thing
(compress bloated PPT files) but it didn't do as good a job as the demo copy
I had of PointLESS.

Case in point... Original 9-slide PPT file 16,060 mb.
Manual remove & reinsert as jpgs: 568 kb.
PointLess demo set to output at 1024x768: 512 kb.
Optimizer demo set to web quality: 1,081 kb, and images are very lossy.
Optimizer demo set to output at 1024x768: 1,486 kb.

So three times the resulting file size for a comparable result. Much better
than the original size, but it could still be better!

If you know, either reply here or email me at (e-mail address removed).
It's my spam-bait email address, so please mention something about PointLESS
in the subject line so I read it!

Alternately, if you know of another program I could try, let me know and
I'll run it against the same presentation for a good comparison.

Thanks!
Beverley

 

[Echo S]

I noticed a few weeks ago that it had been bought out.

Hang on a sec...

Ah, yeah. Look here. http://tinyurl.com/7u7m6 Links to PointLESS,
Optimizer, and NXPowerLite.

The GalaxyVue main site only has its logo -- I can't find any product
listings or anything, so maybe PointLESS really is gone for good? Dunno.

 

[Sonia]

Death by product name! LOL!

--

Sonia Coleman
Microsoft PowerPoint MVP Team
Autorun Software, Templates and Tutorials
http://www.soniacoleman.com

I noticed a few weeks ago that it had been bought out.

Hang on a sec...

Ah, yeah. Look here. http://tinyurl.com/7u7m6 Links to PointLESS,
Optimizer, and NXPowerLite.

The GalaxyVue main site only has its logo -- I can't find any product
listings or anything, so maybe PointLESS really is gone for good? Dunno.

--
Echo [MS PPT MVP]
http://www.echosvoice.com

Does anyone know what happened to PointLESS by Impact Labs? It seems the
company is gone, based the lack of a website at their old domain name. Did
anyone buy the rights to the product, or buy the company? Will there ever
be a new version of it?

I found another program (RnR PPTools Optimizer) that did a similar thing
(compress bloated PPT files) but it didn't do as good a job as the demo copy
I had of PointLESS.

Case in point... Original 9-slide PPT file 16,060 mb.
Manual remove & reinsert as jpgs: 568 kb.
PointLess demo set to output at 1024x768: 512 kb.
Optimizer demo set to web quality: 1,081 kb, and images are very lossy.
Optimizer demo set to output at 1024x768: 1,486 kb.

So three times the resulting file size for a comparable result. Much better
than the original size, but it could still be better!

If you know, either reply here or email me at (e-mail address removed).
It's my spam-bait email address, so please mention something about PointLESS
in the subject line so I read it!

Alternately, if you know of another program I could try, let me know and
I'll run it against the same presentation for a good comparison.

Thanks!
Beverley

 

[Echo S]

heh. I wasn't gonna go there. <VBG>

--
Echo [MS PPT MVP]
http://www.echosvoice.com

Death by product name! LOL!

--

Sonia Coleman
Microsoft PowerPoint MVP Team
Autorun Software, Templates and Tutorials
http://www.soniacoleman.com

I noticed a few weeks ago that it had been bought out.

Hang on a sec...

Ah, yeah. Look here. http://tinyurl.com/7u7m6 Links to PointLESS,
Optimizer, and NXPowerLite.

The GalaxyVue main site only has its logo -- I can't find any product
listings or anything, so maybe PointLESS really is gone for good? Dunno.

--
Echo [MS PPT MVP]
http://www.echosvoice.com

Does anyone know what happened to PointLESS by Impact Labs? It seems the
company is gone, based the lack of a website at their old domain name. Did
anyone buy the rights to the product, or buy the company? Will there ever
be a new version of it?

I found another program (RnR PPTools Optimizer) that did a similar thing
(compress bloated PPT files) but it didn't do as good a job as the demo copy
I had of PointLESS.

Case in point... Original 9-slide PPT file 16,060 mb.
Manual remove & reinsert as jpgs: 568 kb.
PointLess demo set to output at 1024x768: 512 kb.
Optimizer demo set to web quality: 1,081 kb, and images are very lossy.
Optimizer demo set to output at 1024x768: 1,486 kb.

So three times the resulting file size for a comparable result. Much better
than the original size, but it could still be better!

If you know, either reply here or email me at (e-mail address removed).
It's my spam-bait email address, so please mention something about PointLESS
in the subject line so I read it!

Alternately, if you know of another program I could try, let me know and
I'll run it against the same presentation for a good comparison.

Thanks!
Beverley

 

[Beverley]

The "problem child" was a single image on one of the slides. It was an
embedded OLE object, I believe, that was actually a PNG file. Deleting that
file from the presentation and doing nothing else dropped it from nearly 17
mb to about 2 mb.

So I can't make much of a dent on that presentation without removing the one
that was causing the problem. If you have an FTP site I could send it to, I
could get it to you that way if you'd like to use it as a tester for a new
version. Or I could put it on our FTP site for you to pick up.

Thanks,
Beverley