Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!usc!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!jarthur!uunet!mcsun!ukc!axion!uzi-9mm.fulcrum.bt.co.uk!beta.its.bt.co.uk!jvt From: jvt@its.bt.co.uk (John Trickey) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: DTP Message-ID: <3#|^R||@uzi-9mm.fulcrum.bt.co.uk> Date: 19 Nov 90 15:25:14 GMT References: <1990Nov15.231137.6168@rodan.acs.syr.edu> Sender: news@fulcrum.bt.co.uk (News with an UZI) Organization: BT Applied Systems, Birmingham, UK Lines: 30 In article <1990Nov15.231137.6168@rodan.acs.syr.edu> mjducey@rodan.acs.syr.edu (Matthew J. Ducey) writes: >I was messing around with the pagestream demo and, well it works. >It only crashed once on me, which really ain't that bad for them(zing). > >I have never seen Calmus(nor do I know how to spell it!). Is there a >demo of that around? Which is better? I'm not looking to make a living >out of this, just some reports and such. >I don't suppose they offer us poor students a break, do they? Personally, I like Timeworks as a cheap, #75 (~$150) but powerful package. I can only compare it with Calamus and quite frankly for the price, Timeworks knocks spots off it! Timeworks is GDOS based and hence can use just about any font available in that format. Its advantage is with the bit-mapped fonts as these translate to dot-matrix printers or lasers quite well. Calamus uses outline fonts which when displayed even on a Lasejet II look blocky and ragged!! Where Calamus wins is in the graphics. It can handle both vector and raster graphics well including facilities for uploading from a scanner. Timeworks only uses bitmapped graphics and suffers if the image is severely compressed. To be fair I must mention the ages of the packages, My version of Timeworks I think is 1.12 and is 1 year old. Calamus I saw on a friends computer and was *considerably* older than that - things do advance so draw your own conclusions. John -- John Trickey || ..!mcsun!ukc!axion!its G4REV @ GB7SUT Voice: +44 21 333 3369 #include