U26264@UICVM.BITNET (Grant Hoover) (02/04/90)
On Tue, 30 Jan 90, "Robert Williams, Jr." <RWILLIAM@UVMVM.BITNET> asks about the merits of WP 5.1 over 5.0. >1. Is WordPerfect 5.1 more advanced as far as desktop publishing? Yes. The tables feature will save enormous amounts of time, and the equations feature makes possible that which was tedious or impossible before. Another big improvement is that the program will directly print any of the more than 1700 characters in the WordPerfect character sets even if the character doesn't exist in the font you're using. >2. Does WordPerfect 5.1 feature more graphics capabilities? The graphics box and line features remain what they were in 5.0, except that more graphics formats can be imported directly. >3. Is conversion of documents a problem? I assume you mean conversion from 5.0 to 5.1. The only problem I have heard of concerns tabs, and this news is a little easier to take when one considers the improvements the company has made in how tabs are treated in 5.1. Tabs can now be set relative to the current left margin and will adjust automatically when the left margin changes. This new capability makes it hard for 5.1 to know what to do with tab codes in a 5.0 document. There are other improvements that could prove useful in desktop publishing, such as labels, better support of Postscript printers, improved control over merges, and more-powerful macros, but their usefulness is more general. The November, 1989 issue of WordPerfect Magazine has a good summary of the new goodies. Also, the October, 1989, and January, 1990 issues of WPCorp Report contain similar articles, the January issue offering more complete information. Grant Hoover University of Illinois at Chicago Chicago, Illinois . . Bitnet: U26264@UICVM . Compuserve: 76370,314 \___/