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From: blatter@gorgo.ifi.unizh.ch (Martin Blatter)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: PageStream 1.8 - Drawing Capabilities
Message-ID: <1990Aug22.202807.18156@gorgo.ifi.unizh.ch>
Date: 22 Aug 90 20:28:07 GMT
References: <28148@nigel.ee.udel.edu>
Organization: University of Zurich, Department of Computer Science
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In article <28148@nigel.ee.udel.edu> BYRNE@muppet.dnet.ge.com writes:
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>I was considering purchasing PageStream 1.8 and was wondering what type
>of drawing tools it has.  I am familiar with FrameMaker on the SUNs and would
>really like to have something around its functionality.  Any inputs would be
>greatly appreciated.  Thanks in advance.

PageStream 1.8 offers the following drawing tools:

- Boxes and round cornered boxes
- Lines, x-y lines
- Circles, Ellipse
- Arcs, elliptical arcs
- polygons (filled / unfilled)
- freehand drawing tool

All objects can be rotated by any angle. There are 39 (plus one user-
defineable) fill patterns, 100 gray scales and several millions of colors.
Lines can be as thick as you like them with 7 (plus 1 user-defineable)
line styles and three beginning and ending forms.
It also lets you define a grid and "magnetic guides" for aligning objects.
Objects can also be centered/aligned within other objects and grouped
or locked.  

PageStream 2.0 (should be out now!) offers the same drawing tools as 1.8 
plus the ability to draw cubic bezier splines. It also offers on-screen
display of hinted Compugraphic and Adobe Type 1 outline fonts (to name only
a few major improvement). 

>                                -FB

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