This is an archive of CompuServe forum messages from 1985 to 1995, as saved in transcripts by John Foust.
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>unless you plan to use the system for generating graphics on a professional level Geez, Chris! I do NO graphics. None. And I'd rather have a meg of chip than another meg (or 4!) of fast. Malcolm
I saw Gold Disk's multi-function package today (and had never heard of it before seeing it). The Office. Office Write is a variation of Transcript, Office Page is a variation of ProPage (w/gradient fills, even in text! and shadowed text), I presume Office Calc is a variation of Advantage. Looks…
Oh, I don't doubt THAT, Betty. I just think that it's easier to get hold of the money in America. I recently read about a local robot manufacturer who couldn't get any money from banks at the outset. Now that they're a multi-million dollar concern, selling robots to Japan (!),…
No! A pox upon HP compatibles! Malcolm
Joe, Never used a scanner. We used to use DigiView for the same purpose at the magazine. Put a video camera on the subject, capture the image and paste it in. I don't think this is being done on the other platforms. At least I've never heard any mention of…
More than turning their backs on customers…. Sun Remarketing was selling off Lisa's as "Mac compatibles" – with Apple's sanction of course. (No one can do anything without that!) Recently, the last batch of Lisa's went into a landfill site in Utah. Somebody told Sun Re about it after the…
>Commodore sold 550,000 A500's last year. How many other models do you think they sold over that time? Answer: 700,000 64's! With absolutely zero marketing effort and after having already sold 10 million. This says something. Now if only SOMEONE could figure out what it is… Malcolm
Chris, It really is Amazing Computing. They just have an odd banner that makes it look like Amazing Amiga. Malcolm
Ben, I agree. Towards the end we got lots of letters that said, "Is it money. Charge more! I'll pay. Gotta have my Transactor". One day Tim brought in a MicroSoft publication that was $10 or $15. I thought it was a good idea then, but my input was only…
Chris, Sad to say, but flashing ads about cheap games is a large part of the reason why we have ANY magazines to read! Malcolm
Well, I guess I can be happy reading it. But I'd rather be editing it. 🙂 Malcolm
Chris, Since I find that all the commercial programs (not just on Ami) leave a lot to be desired, I sincerely doubt if you'll find any good PD publishing programs (or any bad ones). You'll be hard pressed to find a better value than Geopublish. Wish I was joking. Malcolm
Pete, Pete, Pete. Run to IBM and tell them that you're upset that you can't use WIN3 or Corel on your XT. See what they say. And the original Mac was a non-expandable 128K. Go complain to Apple that it won't load today's Finders. See what they say. Recently a…
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Printer Drivers
Message #3379
And a former Transactor editor. Now jobless. 🙁 Malcolm
Hi Joe: There are 3 main layout programs in use: Professional Page, PageStream and Saxon Publisher. Saxon is the most recent and not in wide use yet, I'd say. I've spent untold hours with Professional Page, some time with Saxon and I've never seen PageStream. Saxon is somewhat Venturish with…
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Printer Drivers
Message #3311
Thanks for the Star data, Chris. I wanted the 80 dots for (dare I say it) GEOS. Malcolm
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Printer Drivers
Message #3310
Why Transactor folded. Hmm… I guess the primary reason was not getting the ad revenue. I see small magazines with 4 people in the masthead for editorial and a dozen for advertising. At our best we had only one and for far too much of the time had none. Despite…
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Printer Drivers
Message #3309
Betty, I can tell you one of the things that will be in the AW Tech Journal. Tim sold them an AREXX article and will be doing a CEDPro 2 review for them. You might put some text together for them and give them a call. Malcolm
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Printer Drivers
Message #3308
Chris, Where in the Great White North are you? Malcolm
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WB2.0
Message #3307
This one is the 286-LT. Colour VGA. Seven pounds including the HD. Pretty sharp for a PC. Malcolm
Jim, Part of the wonderfulness of using Transcript w/ProPage is that you can send the text from PP to TS and then do a Right-Amiga-6 to display all the PP codes. In this case, you could replace the Grey with Black. It's also helpful in cases of extreme tracking. Lately…
Jim, As you can see, a solid pattern with a 7% grey looks like a bunch of dots on screen. It will look less so on a 300 dpi laser, but the dots will still be evident. On a Lino at 1270, it looks like the box is filled with…
Mark, Don't shoot me but…. the new MS-DOS laptop may turn out to be one of the most important products this year. Malcolm
Chris, Can you tell me if the NX-1000II is an 80dpi printer? Malcolm
Russ, UEdit will do columnar cut & paste and macro recording. Malcolm
Jim, First of all, one box is all you need. Fill it with text and then screen it. Your fill pattern should be solid; your ink colour, black; and your fill colour grey. It _seems_ as though your ink colour has become grey. Malcolm
Jim, In reading about Mac software in Personal Publishing I got a neat idea for using PixMate. I think you could probably use it to prepare a bitmap that you were going to trace with PD 2.0. It might be possible to maintain most of the bitmap while simplifying it…
Betty, My DTPForum dinner was an opportunity for me to find out how little I knew! I think most of them had graphic arts backgrounds and I sure don't! I told one of the diners that I had no idea how traditional publishing was done because I _started_ by doing…
Betty, It's for just such purposes that `all' fonts are supposed to have monospaced digits. Ventura even has a typeable `figure space'. In actual use, I find that digits aren't always monospaced. Most of them seem to be about the same width but with a noticeably narrower `1'. Most DTP…
Andre, From what I've been reading about ProDraw 2.0, I think you should be able to have PD Blend a fill for you that you could then import. Not as nice a solution as the one Saxon has done perhaps, but probably doable. Malcolm
Jim, Select the text box, select Alter Active in Box menu (or double-click box), click on rightmost gadget (which will change to a line-around box with fill). Now under Draw, choose Line Weight; under Color/Fill Color choose Grey 7%. Voila! Nice to know I still remember how to do these…
Jamie, You sure can't get them in Amiga format! You'd have to get them in PC or Mac format and then jump through a variety of hoops. I recently downloaded from this forum a font called Durango that began as (I think) a Mac font. I managed to use it…
Andre, Actually, I've never wanted to use a graduated fill, though I _do_ really like them. It's just that most of my concern is getting the data right and then laying it out as simply as possible. I certainly would want to use them in ads or `showy' pages. Once…
Gee, you're right! I hadn't really thought of that – or if I had, it was a long time ago. Reading 'User, Adobe & DTP as I do, there certainly seem to be a lot of `fuzzy' areas. I'll have to give some thought to picking subjects and doing some…
Jamie, I recently saw (in, I think, Adobe Forum) that there are 4 Adobe monospaced fonts: Courier, Letter Gothic, Orator… wait, I think OCR A and OCR B and one other less known name. That'd be 6. You are unlikely to have any of the others, I'd say. Gothic's not…
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#Reach out & page someone
Message #4697
Betty, I feel like I don't know anything! Until I read Sullivan & Zamara's article that has "What is a program" as a subhead. 🙂 I have the interest and experience as an EDITOR. I really feel like I know next to nothing about the Amiga. I expect that I'll…
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HELP
Message #4696
Ethan, If all that's desired is to line up the $ signs, tabs will work. That being done, user will begin to want the NUMBERS to line up too. Malcolm
Allen, I don't use the SID dir utility (or even know what it is). Malcolm
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multi-media threat?
Message #2646
Mark, Sounds like a serious threat to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch (paper version). Seriously, the sooner `disposable' reading gets off paper, the better off we'll all be. Malcolm
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#Amiga PostScript NEEDS!
Message #4616
Ron, It's just been in the last year or so that Toronto has become more expensive than NYC. That dinner might well be more expensive now than NYC now. I'm not surprised about the magazine and the exchange rate in stores is usually about right. When I was in Michigan…
We used the NEC for everyday corresponence. Before Nick move to the west coast he used it to make garage sale flyers too. In fact Nick wrote a program called tset that would just turn an ASCII file into PS with command line switches for font, point size, leading and…
Roy, Go for it! Big time! See if you'll let go of it when the four months are up. It's just been released but it's the new model of the LC-890 (like we used at Transactor). THAT is the best laser I've seen. Great output and a dream to use.…
Whoosh! That's a LOT of cash, Wayne! geoPublish looks better all the time. Your right about Ami DTP; page layout is fine and so is the user interface (of course). Those extras you mentioned would make a BIG difference. I don't think that it will be too long before they're…
Marion, Just news – I don't have a BB anymore. 🙂 Just before the end of the line at Transactor, I happened to see an issue of Crossings. Good stuff! A valuable service for BB users. Glad to see that it's being done. Now if I was just performing a…
Don, I think I remember now. I kept all the new things except PCWindow (the one that actually interfaces the user). Also I seem to remember that almost all the PC side files had the same byte sizes and date/time stamps. My lack of problems may be one of (the…
Ron, Yeah, we used the fractional sizes for listings. If you look at some Transactors you'll see that the character x-size is as big as possible while still allowing each line of code to appear on a single line. It sometimes even varied column to column. The y-size depended on…
Jamie, Yeah, it did get to use it. I could use it now if I wanted but no PS. 🙁 When it came in, Paul started it up and tried to use it without reading anything. Not recommended. 🙂 I went through through their tutorial and played with a few…
Chris, Gee, that's the best bunch of questions I've been asked in a long time. 🙂 I _can_ answer the question on the `left side light'. Your client is getting low on toner. I think it happens this way since left sides of lines get used more than right sides…
Hi Don: I think I mentioned this before many months ago but here it is in case I didn't: I used mixed Janus 1 & 2 with no problems. Version 2 doesn't include the Break key. I tend to use a lot of endless loop Lotus macros for inputing large…
Paul, What kind of things were happening BEFORE you followed those guidelines? My documents are probably NOT entirely created with v1.3, I use the Save option frequently and, God help me, I'm always working at 200%. Mondays are like that sometimes… 🙂 Malcolm
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