Visual Vision
Encyclopedia
Visual Vision is an Italian
software development company founded in 1996. It is known for its multimedia
and hypermedia
software for Microsoft Windows
.
The foundation of Visual Vision as a software company originated from the development of iPer
, a comprehensive hypertext authoring tool created as graduation thesis at Politecnico di Torino in 1996, and presented to the ED-Media
'97 World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia, and Telecommunications in Calgary.
This led to the idea to further develop the software in English
.
Some Visual Vision products are available also in Italian
, Spanish
and French
.
Italy
Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...
software development company founded in 1996. It is known for its multimedia
Multimedia
Multimedia is media and content that uses a combination of different content forms. The term can be used as a noun or as an adjective describing a medium as having multiple content forms. The term is used in contrast to media which use only rudimentary computer display such as text-only, or...
and hypermedia
Hypermedia
Hypermedia is a computer-based information retrieval system that enables a user to gain or provide access to texts, audio and video recordings, photographs and computer graphics related to a particular subject.Hypermedia is a term created by Ted Nelson....
software for Microsoft Windows
Microsoft Windows
Microsoft Windows is a series of operating systems produced by Microsoft.Microsoft introduced an operating environment named Windows on November 20, 1985 as an add-on to MS-DOS in response to the growing interest in graphical user interfaces . Microsoft Windows came to dominate the world's personal...
.
Products
- Easy Web Editor and 1site: programs for creating Web sites
- EBooksWriter: a software for creating and protecting ebooks
- HyperPublishHyper PublishHyper Publish is a visual WYSIWYG hypermedia authoring tool created by Visual Vision, a Italy based software company.The software is born from a research work performed in 1995/96 at Politecnico di Torino and has been designed and optimized for hypermedia and hypertext management, focusing on Web...
: for hypertextHypertextHypertext is text displayed on a computer or other electronic device with references to other text that the reader can immediately access, usually by a mouse click or keypress sequence. Apart from running text, hypertext may contain tables, images and other presentational devices. Hypertext is the...
, CD, DVDDVDA DVD is an optical disc storage media format, invented and developed by Philips, Sony, Toshiba, and Panasonic in 1995. DVDs offer higher storage capacity than Compact Discs while having the same dimensions....
, Web, product catalogs - aperKiller and RoboAuthor: Help authoring toolHelp authoring toolA Help Authoring Tool or HAT is a software program used by technical writers to create online help systems.-Functions:The basic functions of Help Authoring Tools can be divided into the following categories:-File input:...
s for creating manuals, guides, help files - CDFrontEnd: software for autorun CD/DVD, CD presentationPresentationPresentation is the practice of showing and explaining the content of a topic to an audience or learner. Presentations come in nearly as many forms as there are life situations...
s and brochureBrochureA brochure is a type of leaflet. Brochures are most commonly found at places that tourists frequently visit, such as museums, major shops, and tourist information. Brochure racks or stands may suggest visits to amusement parks and other points of interest...
s
The foundation of Visual Vision as a software company originated from the development of iPer
IPer
iPer is an educational computer program designed to manage hypertext and hypermedia.The software was invented in 1996 at Politecnico di Torino and abstracts about its original interface design were published for the first time within the papers of the ED-Media '97 World Conference on Educational...
, a comprehensive hypertext authoring tool created as graduation thesis at Politecnico di Torino in 1996, and presented to the ED-Media
ED-Media
ED-Media is a World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia, and Telecommunications promoted yearly by the AACE, the Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education : an international, educational and professional not-for profit organization dedicated to the advancement of the...
'97 World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia, and Telecommunications in Calgary.
This led to the idea to further develop the software in English
English language
English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...
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Some Visual Vision products are available also in Italian
Italian language
Italian is a Romance language spoken mainly in Europe: Italy, Switzerland, San Marino, Vatican City, by minorities in Malta, Monaco, Croatia, Slovenia, France, Libya, Eritrea, and Somalia, and by immigrant communities in the Americas and Australia...
, Spanish
Spanish language
Spanish , also known as Castilian , is a Romance language in the Ibero-Romance group that evolved from several languages and dialects in central-northern Iberia around the 9th century and gradually spread with the expansion of the Kingdom of Castile into central and southern Iberia during the...
and French
French language
French is a Romance language spoken as a first language in France, the Romandy region in Switzerland, Wallonia and Brussels in Belgium, Monaco, the regions of Quebec and Acadia in Canada, and by various communities elsewhere. Second-language speakers of French are distributed throughout many parts...
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