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From: sysop@tlvx.UUCP (SysOp)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: wordprocessors on ami
Summary: prowrite features
Message-ID: <277@tlvx.UUCP>
Date: 10 Apr 90 04:56:20 GMT
References: <4Apr1990145828134@BLEKUL11.BITNET> <14842@s.ms.uky.edu> <13310@thorin.cs.unc.edu>
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In article <13310@thorin.cs.unc.edu>, tell@oscar.cs.unc.edu (Stephen Tell) writes:
> In article <400@icebox.nsc.com> waggoner@icebox.UUCP (Mark Waggoner) writes:
> >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.
> >
> [lots deleted]
> 
> >You don't ask, but ProWrite also is lacking multi-column capability.
> 
> Could you elaborate?  The ProWrite folks were at Commodore's NAB booth
> demonstrating 2-column text for video script-writing.  Are you saying that
> this must have been a fake of some sort?  Or are we dealing with different
> versions of the program. I got a printout sample from the HP color ink-jet
> they had (looked real nice) but didn't watch the actual demo of the program; I
> was too busy looking at the Video Toaster demo next door.

The May Amiga World has an ad for Pro Write that shows multiple columns in
the picture.  Maybe you're right, the other guy's referring to an older
version?  (Oh, it also mentions "multiple columns with snaking or parallel
text flow" in the list of a couple of dozen features.)  It also mentions
controlling your printer's "dot density"; would that answer the problem
that someone asked about 24-pin printers?  (I wouldn't know....)  Anyway,
I think it's safe to assume ProWrite 3.0 has multiple columns.

Does a wordprocessor really need vector graphics?  Or, at what point does
a program become "desktop publishing"?  I have PageStream myself, and it
has nifty keen things like vector graphics.  BTW, I seem to remember a
comment (in all this Mac/Amiga stuff) about problems with bit-map graphics;
while I haven't exhaustively tested PageStream, the pictures I tried
could be resized.  I assume it stores the original pic internally?  Also,
it's pretty obnoxious to do "desktop publishing" on an Epson-compatible
9-pin dot-matrix (it triple-overstrikes with micro-form-feed inbetween
passes to try to get over 200 dpi... it's sort of a fake 200 dpi though,
since the pins are so [relative to 200dpi] huge).  Sorry, I'm rambling
again.

As for using Lotus 1-2-3 for a word processor, I've seen it done.

> 
> >-- >Mark Waggoner Santa Clara, CA (408) 721-6306 waggoner@dtg.nsc.com 
> > Unofficially representing National Semiconductor Local Area Networks Group
> > Officially misrepresenting myself.
> --------------------------------------------------------------------
> Steve Tell					tell@wsmail.cs.unc.edu
> CS Grad Student, UNC Chapel Hill.
> Former chief engineer, Duke Union Community Television, Durham, NC.

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Gary "Still trying to cram it all into one message" Wolfe
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