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From: waggoner@dtg.nsc.com (Mark Waggoner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: wordprocessors on ami
Message-ID: <400@icebox.nsc.com>
Date: 6 Apr 90 00:49:10 GMT
References: <4Apr1990145828134@BLEKUL11.BITNET> <14842@s.ms.uky.edu>
Reply-To: waggoner@icebox.UUCP (Mark Waggoner)
Organization: National Semiconductor, Santa Clara
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In article <14842@s.ms.uky.edu> kherron@ms.uky.edu (Kenneth Herron) writes:
>In episode <4Apr1990145828134@BLEKUL11.BITNET>, 
>we heard GHGAQBA@BLEKUL11.BITNET say:

Questions about word processor capabilities and answers specific to
ProWrite.


>|4 Styles or equivalent.
>
>Not sure what you mean.  ProWrite handles italics, ....

If you mean named styles for text or paragraph formatting, no, ProWrite 
does not have it.  A real pity too.

>|5 easy and FAST graphics import (as well paint as vector oriented )
 
>You can import IFF brushes and pictures.  Colors are mapped to Prowrite's
>standard set (you have some control over this).  You can put text
>on top of graphics and move pictures around once they're imported.  With
>the latest release, you can print text in your printer's text mode and
>graphics at the same time.

No vector graphics.

 
>|6 high quality printer output, i.e. on a 24 pin printer I want graphic
>|  font output at 180 DPI . This can be done by vector fonts or scaling
>|  down e.g. a 72-size screen font to a 24-size printer font.
>
>It uses the standard abilities of the Amigados printer drivers.  I only
>have a 9-pin printer myself, but others on the net have said that it does
>quite well with 24-pin printers and the 1.3 drivers.

The truthful answer to your question is NO.  You get chunky fonts even
though you have 180 dpi potential.

You don't ask, but ProWrite also is lacking multi-column capability.

My overall impression is that ProWrite is a nice program that could
use a few more features.  I suppose you could get decent dot matrix
output using ProScript and a postscript to dot matrix converter (I
think there is one called pixelscript) but this would be rather slow.


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