pbrody@udenva.UUCP (03/28/87)
cently spent an hour or so at Progressive Peripherals and Software here in Denver. I was really impressed! They are clearly going to be the #1 Amiga software producer in the near future. One of the most terriffic things I saw there was a late Alpha version of Vizawrite, due out sometime in the next few months. Please sit down. Vizawrite is INCREDIBLE!!!!!!!! It is extremely versatile and yet extremely powerful but still user freindly. It uses WYSIWYG and lets you add graphics in IFF format with simplicity. It can have multiple windows and you can decide whether you want a ruler bar displayed at the top of the window or not. The system uses proportional scroll gadgets and uses Intuition in the standard way (thank God!). Further more Vizawrite incorporates Mac like menus and requesters that are easy to understand and not visually cluttered. Vizawrite permits differnt type styles, and I think, different fonts as well. Vizawrite also has internal printer drives that are supposedly better than the workbench's and Vizawrite supports interlace, if you want it, for people w/ HR monitors. I was impressed and I think that Vizawrite will be worth the money. And it will accept Textcraft files so the conversion isn't that painful. -Paul Brody Denver Co., Phone (303) 795-5411 P.S. I hear Textcraft + is in Beta Testing - does anyone know what it is like ?
sdl@linus.UUCP (03/29/87)
> Vizawrite is INCREDIBLE!!!!!!!! It is extremely versatile and yet > extremely powerful but still user freindly. It uses WYSIWYG and > lets you add graphics in IFF format with simplicity. It can have > multiple windows and you can decide whether you want a ruler bar > displayed at the top of the window or not. The system uses > proportional scroll gadgets and uses Intuition in the standard > way (thank God!). Paul, if you're listening out there, could u provide a few more important details about Vizawrite? 1. Will it fit comfortably in 512K? (And I do mean *comfortably*--I've already gotten burned by at least one program that was advertised to work in 512K but in reality only managed to start up before running out of memory.) 2. Did you get to see how the output looked on any of the dot-matrix printers in standard Preferences? 3. Will a Postscript back end or other support be available for laser printers? 4. Is there a page preview mode to view an 8 1/2 x 11 inch page of text and graphics on the screen? (PageSetter has this useful feature.) > P.S. I hear Textcraft + is in Beta Testing - does anyone know > what it is like ? There was a review of Textcraft Plus in a back issue of Amazing Computing. It seemed functionally similar to the old Textcraft; the major difference being that it now runs inside an Intuition window on the Workbench screen. It will also support headers and footers. But given the capabilities of Scribble!, Prowrite and now Vizawrite, I wonder why Arktronics bothered to spend two years developing Textcraft Plus. BTW, VizaWrite had *better* be pretty good, since Prowrite is already shipping, and (from what I've heard) ProWrite is going to be a tough act to beat. Steven Litvintchouk MITRE Corporation Burlington Road Bedford, MA 01730 Fone: (617)271-7753 ARPA: sdl@mitre-bedford UUCP: ...{cbosgd,decvax,genrad,ll-xn,philabs,security,utzoo}!linus!sdl