lean@sbcs.sunysb.edu (Lean L. Loh) (02/20/88)
Has anyone ordered the Supra 20Meg harddisk lately? I ordered one a month
ago, and have been told since then that it's still out of stock. I call 2
other dealers and got the same story. Some problem with Supra ?!!
Publishing Partner Professinal (V2.0) is supposedly coming out second week
of March (that's the latest word I got from SoftLogik early this week). Of
course, we can only hope since I was told a month ago that it's coming second
week of FEB. Here's a listing of the new features (extracted from
Deron's message):
Hyphenation
Spell Checking
Kerning
Taged text
Font in one directory (if you have a file with out a font for it, it can
load it if you want to do it's best to display it)
x and y point size changing in 1/50 pt increment from 1/50 pt up to the
limits of your printer/free memory (for postscript 18 inches tall, for DM 216-
800pts)
Mirror printing
Tiling (printing of HUGE posters) with this one, you can create LETTERS
on a poscript printer severall stories tall.
Downloadable fonts for PS
Faster printing on Dot Matrix
Draft/Final modes for each driver selectable from print dialog box
Manual/paper tray feed
grouping
delete multiple pages
current text attribute recall in the dialog boxes, etc.
you can change left/right margin, char line spacing etc by typing in
.5 inches or 13 picas etc...
undo
no redraws when changing modes/selecting objects
page numbers from 1 to 254. print the page number in arabic or roman
numerals.
multiple documents (ST limit of 6 +moveable toolbox) in a sizable,
moveable window.
create/remove directories, disk free space.
search/replace attributes
variable zoom
Greeking (for past displaying very small or large characters by drawing
a box or line instead)
Rotate all objects in 1 deg increment
Slant/twist for special effects again on all objects
Delete/insert multiple pages
move a range of pages
Move multiple objects to any page (or just a master page)
turn master pages off on certain pages
import word writter/ 1st word with most attributes
word perfect, Ascii, interpreted Ascii (/b for bold, etc..)
Stripped ascii
pic IMG, Degas Pi/Pc TIFF IFF Neochrome Tiny Spectrum
object GEM, perhaps some CAD type programs.
the importing is not fixed. Other non ST formats may be added, and
a hook will be provided for additions.
DM print drivers are about 500 to 800 bytes
Select all objects on a page
Changing attributes for highlighted areas/ or the whole column/ or
the entire link/ or the entire document.
Snap to grid and snap to guides. Set you grid and guides.
Tabs are column oriented. Decimal, left,center right tabs. hopefully
with leaders.
Make Caps Auto justification (somewhere between char and word justify)
Paragraph formating (indent/outdent)
Lock objects down.
open ended polygons/ arcs/ elliptical arcs
reshape arcs/ polygons/ pictures
save defaults seperatly. Specify paths in a dialog box. set marcros
the old way or in a dialog box.
Any time a measurement is called for, (text size, grid xy, left/right
margins, etc) you can enter it as inches/cm/mm/picas/points/absolute
(1/3600inch)/ciceros/didot pts.
edit/add/delete words in hyphenation exception dict and spelling dict
configure for various hyphenation routines
edit/add/delete kerning pairs
Set maximum hyphens in a row/ min char before/after hyphen
move by word left/right, delete word left/right Well, I'm sure there is
more, if you don't see something, leave me a note or maybe Jack. By the way,
Jack is just a good friend of mine who calles me at odd times at night, and is
not responsible for my mistakes, etc.. He just likes to help. So be nice to
him.
Back to the pit
Deron Kazmaier (and I thought programing was difficult)
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Sounds great !!
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