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From: gdtltr@vax1.acs.udel.EDU (Gary D Duzan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.8bit
Subject: Re: Desk Top Publishing Software (for 8-bits)
Message-ID: <1126@udccvax1.acs.udel.EDU>
Date: 27 Apr 88 18:45:00 GMT
References: <6418@swan.ulowell.edu> <4754@cup.portal.com> <456@dalcsug.UUCP>
Reply-To: gdtltr@vax1.acs.udel.EDU (Gary D Duzan)
Organization: University of Delaware
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In article <456@dalcsug.UUCP> euloth@dalcsug.UUCP (George Seto) writes:
>
>Another program you might look around for is the Dot Magic aka Daisy Dot II
>which is ShareWare and is quite nice. Works with Dot Matrix printers of all
>kinds, incorporates Graphics, and different fonts. It has been found to work
>with the XMM801 and Star SG10 printers as well. Various sizes of fonts are
>capable as well. A bit slow sometimes but really nice. IS there an 8 bit
>depository like the atari.st.binaries for this sort of thing?
>
   I think you are looking at the depository. I posted Daisy Dot II here a
while ago. I have found one problem in using it: it is often a pain to put
all the formatting commands in the file after you format it. Anyone want to
tackle a macro package for TextPRO to support DDot II? It is something I
thought about a while ago, but I am busy with my Plato terminal emulator
project.

   Speaking of which, when I finally get it completed, I will be releasing it
on a "if you like it, send money"-type deal. The final version should allow
for touch-screen emulation (depending on memory constraints) and screen dumps
to disk (definitly (sp?)). A separate program will dump it to disk. I should
have a good beta version done in a month or two, but I won't be able to post
it to the net 'cause this account dies at the end of the semester. If I don't
get a new account by this fall, I will have a new mail address on our Plato
system here (we are wired into BITNET) & you can contact me there. I know this
may sound like an ego trip, but I am too tired to go back and erase it all.

					    Gary Duzan
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