Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!att!cbnewse!macduff From: macduff@cbnewse.att.com (Roger R. Espinosa) Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn Subject: Re: Archimedes Word Processors Summary: Tried Ovation Demo Message-ID: <1990Dec5.180944.6020@cbnewse.att.com> Date: 5 Dec 90 18:09:44 GMT References: <1990Dec4.135309.11310@cbnewse.att.com> Organization: The Rabbit Corps Lines: 43 In article , kers@hplb.hpl.hp.com (Chris Dollin) writes: > [comments about Impression] > my wife isn't!) it's brill. For word processing, you can forget about the > fancy DTP features, and it just works like an editor with fancy fonts and > styles; you can mess around with frames and such later. But, can you just do word processing with the system font? This might sound strange, but 99% of the time I don't really need nice outline fonts, just something to dump and print quickly on the Panasonic (using its fonts). Jr. had a blurb about using the system font (ala 1stWord+). > > I seem to recall that Junior hasn't got editable master pages, which I use > when writing manuals. There are a couple of other things too. You might like > to start with Junior and upgrade when you hits its limits. I'm not that interestined in full-DTP right now; I really would like something akin to MacWrite II, and 1stWord+ isn't it. But it's something to look into before I do anything... > > Anyone tried Ovation? Anyone *seen* Tempest? I did order the Ovation demo disc, and it *looks* okay; took forever to print (although that could be because of the "OVATION DEMO" blurb it prints diagonally across the page) a page of hi-quality font-type, and had no "system font -> print font" mode, so it would *always* be printing this slow. I haven't considered it further, because of this limitation (for me, at any rate), and there was no indication that this would be added in the future. (Thanks for the previous information, btw :-) Roger rre@ihlpn.ATT.COM > -- > > Regards, Kers. | "You're better off not dreaming of the things to come; > Caravan: | Dreams are always ending far too soon."