patth@dasys1.UUCP (Patt Haring) (08/06/87)
PRINTRIX(tm) Personal Typesetting Software
For the Apple IIc, IIe, or IIgs (ProDOS)
Reviewed by Jono E. Smith on an Apple IIgs
Rating: ***** (Five Star!)
Retail Price: $69.00 from:
Data Transforms, Inc.
616 Washington Street
Denver, CO 80203
(303) 832-1501
If you're like me you have spent a great deal of time mastering the word
processor you currently use (in my case, AppleWorks). It may not have all
the gadgets of the newer programs, but it can certainly hold its own and gets
the job done. Plus, now that you've grown accustomed to it, you can breaze
through the menus quickly and effortlessly. But all these new programs are
coming out that have graphics, and fonts and all sorts of wonderful things.
Are you going to give up the power and ease of your word processor and buy
one of these new supposdely new "slick" word processors, have one word
proccessor for one application, and one for another? Or maybe you should go
buy desktop accessories like Pinpoint and then add Graphmerge for graphics
capabilities, and then Fontworks for fonts. But my favorite AppleWorks add
on MacroWorks won't work with Pinpoint, and I heard Graphmerge won't work on
the IIgs. Confused? You don't have to be, forget three VERY different
copies of the same word processor. Who needs that? What you probably need
is Printrix! You don't have to give up AppleWorks, AppleWriter, Word
Juggler, or WordPerfect just because you want special fonts, graphics or
color printing on your ImageWriter II; because Printrix works with and
recognizes the formatting of those four word processors and using it's own
formatting commands can work with any word proccessor that prints ASCII files
to disk (like Freewriter).
Printrix is amazing! I can insert graphics in my AppleWorks files, use
up to four of the thirty included fonts (over 150 additional fonts available
on Fontpaks), and even accomplish two column printing with both columns right
justified. Printrix will make your work look SHARP! If you're tired of what
Data Transforms calls "hummdrum computer print-out" then Printrix is probably
for you! The program comes with a 150 page manual written with the IBM
version of Printrix that is one of the best written I have seen in a long
time. It's easy reading even for the beginner, and can even keep the techie
happy. Speaking as a person who hates to and rarely does read manuals, this
manual is nice! Data Transform's technical support is also quite helpful. I
placed two calls to them and received easy to understand and well explained
answers.
Printrix was just released less than ten days ago (6/87) so it might not
be on your dealer's shelves yet, but it can be ordered directly from Data
Transforms (303/832-1501) at list price or from CAJS Computing for $49
(415/567-0217). If you want to take full advantage of your word processors'
and dot matrix printer's capabilities, Printrix is the right choice and
released not a moment to soon.
(C)opyright 1987 by Jono E. Smith & Computing Today!
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