rminnich@metropolis.super.org (Ronald G Minnich) (06/09/89)
Well, i now have the picture drawing environment i want. I have an object-oriented drawing environment with mixed bit-maps and (limited) structured objects; fast text with the best fonts you can get; and Paintjet support. Oh, and of course, dimensioned objects and resizable objects and grids and all sorts of nice things. All for about $80. How it got there: 1) Get a piece of the Rok 2) See the Wizard of Ozer 3) read comics Ok, to start from the end, i borrowed my brother's ComicSetter again. I am going to buy this one now. They have lots of nice pictures (for my comic of SuperNetworkMan) and you can create bitmap objects, drop them into a picture, and still get at them as an object, in contrast to something like dpaint, where once it goes into the picture, you are screwed. It also has *great* font support, nice ways to import pictures, and so on. Finally, printer support is terrific too. The only limit was the fonts i had available (i.e. the standard crummy Amiga set). So, enter Ali Ozer, who, doubtless inspired by Tom Rokicki's good AmigaTeX work wrote TeXF, which converts the beautiful TeX fonts to amiga fonts. SO, now i have ComicSetter, and can build beautiful viewgraphs which are titled with AmigaTex fonts. I get nice fonts, and i don't get the slowness of Pro Draw text. A wonderful system all around. Once again, the community of good guys like Tom and Ali who write useful software for the Amiga have made a commercial product more usable. Thanks Ali and Tom!!! ron P.S. Oh, and BTW, Dnet 2.0 is terrific