• When you copy and paste a graph created with Prism Windows into another program such as Word or PowerPoint, you can embed an entire Prism object or paste a link to the Prism file. You can then double-click on the graph from within Word or PowerPoint to edit the graph with Prism. Since the Mac OS does not support Object Linking and Embedding (OLE), you can only paste a picture of a Prism graph into another program. Double-clicking on the pasted graph does not launch Prism.
• Prism Windows can embed objects (for example, equations) created by other programs. You double-click on an object to edit with the program that created it. Prismfor Macintosh, however, does not support Object Linking and Embedding (OLE). With Prism Mac, you can copy and paste pictures from another program, but you need to go back to the original file in order to edit with the other program.
• When you paste Excel data, Prism Windows can embed the entire workbook within Prism, or maintain a link between Prism and the Excel file. With Prism Mac, you simply paste the values from Excel. Prism Mac cannot maintain a link to the Excel file.
• With Prism Windows, you can press one button to send a graph (or layout) to PowerPoint or Word. These buttons could not be built into the Mac version, so instead you need to the steps sequentially: copy the graph to the clipboard, switch to PowerPoint, insert a new slide, and paste. However you can send to Keynote with one click.
  

The Windows and Mac versions of Prism very similar. You can switch back and forth between platforms easily, and files created on one platform can be opened on the other. But there are a few differences.

Features in Windows but not Mac:

• Object linking and embedding. This means you can paste a Prism graph into another program and double-click to edit in Prism.
• Excel linking and embedding. This means you can paste Excel data into Prism, and double click to edit within Excel.
• Audio notes embedded on graphs or layouts.
• Import and export EMF and WMF images.
• Send to Word or PowerPoint with a single click.
• Automatically check for program updates.
• One click to post a graph or layout on a web site.
• High contrast printing, with no grays and no colors.
• Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) commands to launch Prism and start a script.
• Find Prism files using Google Desktop Search.
• Export in the older PCX format.

Features in Mac but not Windows:

• Spell checking of text anywhere in the project
• Antiaiiasing. This makes the on-screen graphics look better, but doesn't affect exported or printed quality.
• Quick Look. Lets you preview graphs within Finder (Leopard only).
• Color eyedropper. While setting any color, click the magnifying glass tool, then click on any color on any window to select that color.
• Send to keynote with a single click.
• Use an Automator action to launch Prism and run a Prism Script;
• Choice of color model ( RGB, CMYK, or Grayscale) when exporting JPEG.
• Choice to compress when exporting tiff at high resolution.
• Ability to open one project on display and another project on a different display monitor.
• Export in PICT format.

 

 

Updated 21 January 2008