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For immediate release
Studio City, CA
8/22/2000

Performance Graphics creates interactive CD-ROMs
for two United Way Fundraising Campaigns

Performance Graphics of Studio City, CA has produced two cross-platform CD-ROMs that provide instructions and tools to campaign coordinators for planning and executing successful fundraising campaigns.


Employee Campaign
Coordinator's Guide
United Way of Greater Los Angeles

To supplement printed materials needed by their Employee Campaign Coordinators for the 2000 year campaign, United Way of Greater Los Angeles contracted the production of a 30-minute interactive guide that explains how to start, plan, run, and close a successful corporate fundraising campaign. The presentation includes voiceover and background music with entertaining testimonials. PDF documentation was linked to the Macromedia Director presentation. Utilizing the CD-installed version of Acrobat Reader, the cross-platform (WIN & MAC) hybrid CD autoruns without installation of any additional software.

Community Support Campaign
2000
Wells Fargo Bank/Seattle, WA

In support of the their national United Way fundraising efforts, Wells Fargo contracted the production of a campaign materials CD-ROM to distribute the corporate branding (in a variety of formats), pledge form (as a PDF form), and MS Access Pledge Capture Utility to their campaign coordinators. Preceded by a 6-minute introduction and overview created in Macromedia Director, user manuals were made available as PDFs for cross-platform distribution, online viewing, or printout. All logos and branding guidelines were clearly documented. The pledge form could be distibuted online or in print. A PDF Document Menu provided a centralized launching interface to all of the contents of the CD. To facilitate autorunning, the CD-installed version of Acrobat Reader was included for both WIN and MAC halves of the hybrid CD.

Used in the production of both CDs were Macromedia Director 7.0 (both Macintosh and Windows platforms), QuarkXPress, Adobe FrameMaker 5.5, Illustrator 8.0, PhotoShop 5.5, and Adobe Acrobat 4.05a on a Macintosh G4 computer.

For further information, e-mail Performance Graphics at miller@performancegraphics.com or visit Performance Graphics' website, "PDF Research Companion", at http://www.performancegraphics.com.

C. Scott Miller, President of Performance Graphics, is available for demonstrations and consultations concerning Adobe Acrobat and Print to the Web conversion projects. He may be reached at 818/508-5514.

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