#Saxon DTP demo
I tried out the Saxon DTP demo for the Amiga. It's in the DTP Forum,
section 12. One BIG advantage is that you can have non-rectangular boxes
— just zig-zag like crazy when making your box, and the text will flow
around every twist and turn. Great! I've been wishing ProPage could do
that!
Unfortunately you can't do anything much fancier than that. If you try
putting a box in the middle of a body of text, the text will flow to either
the left side or the right side of the box, but not to both sides of the
box.
Many of the easy to use bitmapped graphics controls in ProPage seem to be
missing, or more difficult to use. For instance, bitmaps come into ProPage
already scaled to the active box. Further changes of scale can be done
with the mouse and the ALT key. In Saxon your options seem much more
restricted.
And I may be wrong about this — the demo, incredibly, comes with NO
documentation to help you out — but choosing different fonts didn't seem
to change the on-screen appearance of text. And, in any case, the
on-screen text's jagged appearance means you can't get any aesthetic feel
from looking at the screen. I've really been spoiled by ProPage's CG
fonts.
It's good to see another Amiga DTP entry. The style sheets and better
text flow are improvements on ProPage. But not nearly enouch to make me
want to switch, especially with a new ProPage supposedly due in a month.
– Roger