Issue 10 AMIGAZINE! PUBLISHING PARTNER PROFESSIONAL Desktop publishing is something everyone can use. It doesn't have to be limited only to those who can afford a laser printer. Everyone who puts ideas on paper is concerned with how those ideas are received. Desktop publishing promises us a level of power over presentation traditionally reserved for typesetters. At Soft Logik they have committed themselves to providing all the features found throughout the entire desktop publishing industry in one easy-to-use package. They have a powerful preferences driver for perfect output. It even drives some non-preferences printers. This makes all printers look good - to the best of each printer's ability. You get the output you always thought you should get with the printer you already own, be it dot matrix or laser. It doesn't have to be a painful process to get a handsome, professional-looking document on the Amiga. Producing documents should be easy, fun and fast. Publishing Partner Professional combines all the features found in the market within a comfortable, intuitive environment. It's a unique approach using animation to show how each change will affect your document before you click "OK". It's very effective - and fun! WORD PROCESSING * Enter text right into the WYSIWYG environment without switching "modules"! * Includes word wrap, insert mode, tab guides, left and right justification, centering, character or word justification, and the cut and paste features. * Spell Checking feature. * Text will flow automatically around any irregular-shaped graphics giving a very professional look quickly. * Create crisp-looking, readable paragraphs with our auto-hyphenation and word wrap features. It will even worn you if you have five hyphenated line endings in a row! * Set your text flow from column to column and page to page either manually for control or automatically for speed. * The search and replace feature makes local or global changes easy and fast. * With any font you can make it bold, italic, backslanted, underlined, double underlined, light, mirrored, outlined only, reversed, shadowed, tall, wide, upside down and more. GRAPHICS * Need a simple drawing? Just draw it! Use different pen sizes or create your own up to 72 points at 1/50th of a point increments. * Once it's drawn or imported, your graphic can be rotated in one degree increments or you can slant or twist it to give it a 3D look. * If you don't have an art program, don't get one because you won't need it! Draw andy polygon, ellipse, or square and fill it with any of the 40 premade patterns or make your own. * Complete mouse or keyboard control over sizing, cropping or moving graphic objects. * The colors are limited only by the screen mode you are in because you can define up to 40 colors using the RGB values. Use a color or grayscale background for your text. * You can make boxes, circles, horizontal and vertical lines, even arcs! Use the snap to grid command for speed and precision. Making forms is a breeze. * A zoom command moves you in close to any spot. * Group objects and easily move them anywhere. For safety you can lock and unlock graphic elements to the page. * Reduce, enlarge or stretch any graphic. APPEARANCE AND EASE * Interactive WYSIWYG. * You can view your document in 50%, full width, full page, multiple page, actual size, or 200%, or set your own between 15 and 999%. * Over 10,000 pages available (limited by memory) for one document. Plus, automatic page numbering. * Recalling of text attributes in just a click. * The undo command will make mistakes disappear. IMPORTS * Import beautiful Amiga graphics from virtually any art program and print them in color or shades of gray. * Scanned images are just as easy, even 300 dpi. * Bring in text from most all word processors including those with ASCII or IFF text. * Merge documents together. SUPPORT * Easy to use manual with index. * Full support team ready to help is just a phone call away. PRINTERS * Postscript support is included at no extra charge! * Folks with dot matrix printers should be able to take advantage of desktop publishing too. Preferences will drive dot matrix printers to their maximum resolution. This allows a dot density up to nine times that commonly found. Then, it drives your printers interlacing capability to double or triple interlace. * Some printers are not driven by preferences, drivers are included for many of these. * Lasers and any postscrip device are driven the same way - to its maximum resolution with scalable fonts at no extra charge! YOur print capability is limited only by the printing device. * Font caching is utilized for printing speed. * Printing control is being able to collate, print multiple copies, print a specified range, print enlarged to 999% or reduced to 15%, print to disk, even print color, color overlays, and color separations! * Sometimes you may want pictures, drawings and text overlaid. No problem. * If you need to, you can print a postscript file to disk. * And, you can print using a parallel or serial printer. FONTS * The scalable font technique allows for the beautiful results you can on any printer supported. No jaggies! * Six fonts are included with the program and many others are available at $29.95 for a set of three. * Make your own fonts or special characters if you wish. The font editor is in the public domain. TYOPGRAPHY * Point size range is from 1/50th of a point to 1310 point (18.2 inches, limited by memory) in 1/50th of a point increments. * Most of us are not typographers so we have included premade style sheets so you can look like you are. Or, do it yourself using the tag and master page system. * The typograqhers art is a precise one. So, use the automatic kerning of letters and user defined kerning pairs with exact control down to 1/3600th of an inch! * Leading, or line spacing, can be controlled in 1/3600th of an inch increments either automatically or manually. * You can define your measuring system with points, picas, inches, cm, mm, ciceros, didots, or 1/3600" units. * You can define your page size to whatever your printer can handle with a maximum size of 18.2 x 18.2 inches. * Typographers refer to pages as either portrait or landscape. That means vertical or horizontal. You can print your document either way. GRAPHICS * Color printers are driven to their fullest but if you don't have one, you can get beautiful shades of gray. * The resolution of the graphic is only limited by your printer. No jaggies! PRICE: $199.95 Price for PageSetter owners is $50 for a limited time. SOFT LOGIK CORPORATION; 11131 South Towne Sq., Suite F. St. Louis, MO 63123 (314) 894-8608