Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!ccicpg!arnold!bergy!rich
From: rich@bergy.UUCP (Bergstedt)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.att
Subject: Re: PaintPower Printing
Message-ID: <105@bergy.UUCP>
Date: 6 Jan 88 10:33:31 GMT
References: <3186@ihlpf.ATT.COM> <3718@islenet.UUCP> <1221@electron.UUCP>
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Keywords: DMP-110,Tandy,build-a-driver, How?,where's the screen memory?
Summary: Paint Power User Report

In article <1221@electron.UUCP>, wilkes@mips.UUCP (John Wilkes) writes:
> In article <3718@islenet.UUCP> richard@islenet.UUCP (Richard Foulk) writes:
> >Could you please post a description of PaintPower, what it does, and
> >what it's good for?
> and where to get it,
> and how much it costs?
> 
> I am under the impression that there is little or no software available for
> the 3B1 (other that what appears on the net, of course).  PaintPower is a
> suggestive name, and I can guess what sort of program it is.  Has anybody
> seen/heard of a (gasp!) desktop publishing type program?

I have had Paint Power installed on my 3B1 for quite some time.  I would not
qualify myself as an expert with it but I can describe some of its capabilities.

Paint Power provides the user with the ability to create just about any kind
of picture, graph or map, etc.  It has a number of different brush textures
as well as different patterns that you can choose from when drawing free-hand
or creating any of the other shapes/objects you want.  There is a text creation
option that allows you to select several different fonts with a variety of
text treatments such as: underlining, shadowing, reverse video and outlining.

I have used it to make the kind of drawings you would use for a map to your
house and have written a letter with it so my elderly parents wouldn't have
trouble reading my lousy writing or this small computer print on my printer.

My 7 and 9 year old kids have become fairly adept at using it and enjoy
playing with Dad's computer whenever I let them have a chance to get on the
system.  (They have their own logins and passwords, btw) :-)

I will have to check tomorrow for the information on price and where
you could order it.  I will post this as soon as I can find it.

I also have used a package called Sound Presentations before that has some
additional capabilities over Paint Power.  AT&T also has a package called
Image Director that would possibly be considered a low-level desktop
publishing software package.  I will post info on both of these packages
also.  AT&T has a software catalog that lists UNIX PC software in it.
You can order one for 19.95 from 1-800-432-6600.  

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