Digitalsoft Keypoint
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Digitalsoft Keypoint is a presentation program
developed by Digitalsoft. Keypoint runs on Microsoft Windows
.
Keypoint is widely used by pastors and church worship leaders throughout the world. The current version of Keypoint is 3.5 for Windows.
, USA. It was initially called "The Visual Slide Design Studio".
In 2006, the application was purchased by Digitalsoft and became much more than just a pastor's tool. Digitalsoft (whose background is in writing custom applications) took Keypoint in the to realm of the church worship presentation.
, a device that has become obsolete due to the use of Microsoft PowerPoint
and other presentation software.
The presentation can be printed, displayed on a computer, or navigated through at the command of the presenter. For larger audiences the computer display is often projected using a video projector
.
Presentations can be saved and run in any of the file format
s: the 3.0 default .kpxx (presentation), or .kptx (template). In Keypoint 3.x versions, the an Open XML|XML-based file formats is used.
Presentation program
A presentation program is a computer software package used to display information, normally in the form of a slide show...
developed by Digitalsoft. Keypoint runs on 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...
.
Keypoint is widely used by pastors and church worship leaders throughout the world. The current version of Keypoint is 3.5 for Windows.
History
Keypoint was initially developed in the spring of 2005 by a Pastor in Northern CaliforniaNorthern California
Northern California is the northern portion of the U.S. state of California. The San Francisco Bay Area , and Sacramento as well as its metropolitan area are the main population centers...
, USA. It was initially called "The Visual Slide Design Studio".
In 2006, the application was purchased by Digitalsoft and became much more than just a pastor's tool. Digitalsoft (whose background is in writing custom applications) took Keypoint in the to realm of the church worship presentation.
Operation
Keypoint presentations consist of a number of individual pages or "slides". The slide analogy is a reference to the slide projectorSlide projector
A slide projector is an opto-mechanical device to view photographic slides. Slide projectors were common in the 1950s to the 1970s as a form of entertainment; family members and friends would gather to view slide shows...
, a device that has become obsolete due to the use of Microsoft PowerPoint
Microsoft PowerPoint
Microsoft PowerPoint, usually just called PowerPoint, is a non-free commercial presentation program developed by Microsoft. It is part of the Microsoft Office suite, and runs on Microsoft Windows and Apple's Mac OS X operating system...
and other presentation software.
The presentation can be printed, displayed on a computer, or navigated through at the command of the presenter. For larger audiences the computer display is often projected using a video projector
Video projector
A video projector is an image projector that receives a video signal and projects the corresponding image on a projection screen using a lens system. All video projectors use a very bright light to project the image, and most modern ones can correct any curves, blurriness, and other...
.
Presentations can be saved and run in any of the file format
File format
A file format is a particular way that information is encoded for storage in a computer file.Since a disk drive, or indeed any computer storage, can store only bits, the computer must have some way of converting information to 0s and 1s and vice-versa. There are different kinds of formats for...
s: the 3.0 default .kpxx (presentation), or .kptx (template). In Keypoint 3.x versions, the an Open XML|XML-based file formats is used.
Features
- Inbuilt Bible Library which support numerous Bible versions.
- Inbuilt Song Library which support unlimited number of songs.
- Dual Language support of Bible versions on the same "Bible-Slide".
- Inbuilt graphic editor.
- Live Online image and background search from within the Keypoint interface.
- Online library of themes and templates
Versions
- 2006: Keypoint 2006 (version 1.0)
- 2007: Keypoint 2007 (version 2.0)
- 2008: Keypoint 3.0 (version 3.0)
- 2009: Keypoint 3.5 (version 3.5)