FacetoFaceFacetoFaceDocument Conferencing Software for Macintosh and Windows Users
"The Fastest Way to Review Documents at a Distance"
Face to Face is the world's first cross-platform document conferencing software for both IBM PCs and compatibles running Microsoft Windows and Macintosh computers.
With Face to Face, you can use your telephone and desktop computer to share documents with anyone, anywhere in the world, on a moments notice. You and your remote colleagues can simultaneously view documents, guide one another with electronic pointers, and make annotations using a simple set of drawing tools - all while you talk on the telephone. And you can do all of this without regard for the types of computers involved, the particular applications used to create the documents, or the type ofnetwork available - whether it be ordinary, low-speed modems, AppleTalk,NetWare, TCP/IP (the Internet) or a high-speed service like ISDN.
Today, people typically fax time-critical documents to one another for review. Face to Face offers a faster and more efficient alternative. With Face to Face, you can send copies of a document to others with a few clicks of your mouse. Then, while you talk on the telephone, you can view and manipulate identical, synchronized images of documents on your computer screens while you make annotations that appear instantly,as they are drawn. The result is a much faster and clearer review process that doesn't require you to verbally guide one another through your documents ("go to page ten, second paragraph, third line") or spend time describing your comments to each other while you take notes. At the end of a Face to Face meeting, everyone walks away with a softcopy of the annotated document which can be saved, printed or forwarded to others via electronic mail.
Face to Face is easy to install and use. Unlike other remote meeting solutions like video conferencing, Face to Face does not require specialized hardware or network services. Within minutes, anyone with a telephone and a Macintosh or Windows computer can experience the fastest way to review documents at a distance.
The Meeting Window is the first window that appears when you launch Face to Face. This is the control center for Face to Face, the place where you designate who you intend to meet with and what documents you intend to share. The Meeting Window also indicates the network you are configured to meet on, and who happens to be in control of the meeting at any given moment.
Click button below to see Edit/Setup window.
Everything about a particular meeting - including the names of the people involved, copies of the documents shared, and all of the annotations made - is maintained by Face to Face on your hard disk in a single file known as a Meeting File. Face to Face automatically creates a Meeting File for every meeting you conduct and provides you with the option of naming and saving it.
You can prepare for a meeting in advance by creating a Meeting File, complete with the documents you intend to share, and saving it for a later time when the meeting is to take place. You can predistribute Meeting Files by means of any standard electronic mail or file transfer facility so others can review the documents and make comments in advance.
Prior to calling a meeting, you specify the documents to be shared in the meeting by adding them to the Documents List in the Meeting Window. By preparing the Documents List in advance of the meeting, all documents are exchanged at meeting establishment time, thereby improving performance once the meeting is underway. However, if you choose, you can bring documents to a meeting already in progress. Any document in the Documents List can be opened during a meeting, or before or after a meeting while you work alone.
Two types of documents can be added to the Documents List - image documents and transfer documents. Any document that is to be reviewed or annotated during the meeting must first be converted into an image document using the Face to Face Image Catcher. Documents created in any Windows or Macintosh application can be converted into an image document. Using the Image Catcher is as easy as printing a document. While in the creating application (e.g. Word, Excel, etc.), you simply use the creating application's native Print command to "print" to the Image Catcher. The Image Catcher then creates, names and saves an "image" of the original document on your hard disk. The resulting image document can then be used in any Face to Face meeting.
Transfer documents can include any file you wish to send another user. This is a general purpose file transfer utility. Transfer documents cannot be reviewed or annotated during a meeting; they can be exported to the remote user's hard disk upon arrival. This feature is a convenient way for you to exchange the original versions of documents in their native application format.
Image and transfer documents are added to the Documents List, either before or during a meeting, by pressing the Add button on the Meeting Window. This brings up a dialog showing all the documents on your file system that can be added to a meeting.
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