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From: Sullivan@cup.portal.com (sullivan - segall)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Ultracard Problems
Message-ID: <26776@cup.portal.com>
Date: 10 Feb 90 03:00:43 GMT
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>>
>>This is another advantage of the Mac world ...S/W standards are higher.
>                 ^^^^^^^^^        ^^^              ^^^^^^^^^
>>No, I don't own one.  But it seems to me that you can have all the potential
>>power in the world, but if you can't use it well, it's effectively useless.
>>(or greatly diminished)
>>
>
>I just encountered these advantages just last night.  I'm working on my
>Formal lab report for physics.  I simple 15-20 page report, with a few
>graphs, and a pain in the ass.. so I decide how I'm going to start it.
>   I have the Amiga 2000, 3 megs, 40 meg HD, 2 floppies, & Modem.  I
>have WordPerfect, which is fine for the text, but what about the
>graphs??? (They would have to be semi-structured graphs to be usable,
>not just IFF Pics, which tend to get warped).  I couldn't find a
>solution (Use Dpaint? Yeah right... Use text chars.. sure, might as well
>be doing it by hand..)
>

Try: METAFONT


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