CD FrontEnd Lite

CD FrontEnd Lite is a software tool which allows you to create and design autorun presentations for your CDs environment.

The interface of the program may appear confusing to less experienced users. You can create a new hypertext project from scratch or simply use one of the available templates provided by the app.

The utility allows you to import images and information from an external database (CSV), create a new page, search for a file on the computer, as well as use the basic yet essential undo, cut, copy, paste and select-all functions.

You can insert pictures, symbols, text files, tables, floating frames, animations, video clips, sounds, Flash objects, page functions (e.g. slides), annotations, text and object plugins, links, and so on.

It it also possible to make customizations to the format regarding the font, styles, paragraph styles, page properties, the background, header and footer, as well as edit the current hypertext options (e.g. password) and add remarks.

You can locate text within the project, delete pages, use a word counter and spell checker, customize toolbars, toggle between multiple open windows, and alter preferences when it comes to the program (e.g. start with a blank page automatically, set the undo depth level) and outgoing email account.

CD FrontEnd Lite supports keyboard shortcuts and multiple skins for the GUI, is pretty responsive to commands, and includes user documentation. No error dialogs have popped up during our testing and CD FrontEnd Lite did not hang or crash; we have not come across any problems.

On the other hand, the interface of the application could had been better organized, in order to allow less experienced users to quickly familiarize themselves with the features. Other than that, CD FrontEnd Lite comes with some pretty standard functions for creating autorun presentations for CDs.