Return-Path: Received: from relay.ipf.net ([195.88.0.13]) by its.okay.net (Netscape Mail Server v2.02) with SMTP id AAA14251 for ; Fri, 10 Apr 1998 09:42:01 +0200 Received: (qmail 8380 invoked from network); 10 Apr 1998 07:41:59 -0000 Received: from nf2.netforward.com (204.57.67.146) by relay.ipf.net with SMTP; 10 Apr 1998 07:41:59 -0000 Date: Fri, 10 Apr 1998 02:28:48 -0500 X-Forwarder: NetForward.com To: finalwriter@coollist.com From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?D=E1maso?= =?iso-8859-1?Q?Dom=EDnguez?= MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Precedence: list Subject: Presentation and other FW bugs... Reply-To: finalwriter@coollist.com Hello, FW registered users! :) I'm a spanish FW 5/97 registered user (Gordon Harwoode offer) what I want talk about this program (and interchange tricks, hints, oppinions and/or suggestions). I use this for letters (well, at this moment, I use the YAM/Thor 2.5a a lot :D), my laboral/scholar works,... although I prefer DrawStudio Lite for labels printing :DDD Other 'bugs' what I detected (FW97)... 1.- The datatype support don't work as Mr. Lemos know :D ... the program load garbage and generally crash. Temporal solution: I use HappyDT 2.5 (registered version) wrote by Mr. Sollet (a datatype patch). 2.- With the GaramontCursive font (CG), my printer (Epson Stylus Color 600) sometimes the vowel 'i' with accent ('=ED') appears wrong: I've seen the font with TypeSmith but all seems OK... I've changed the printer driver (TurboPrint 5 Lite, Stylus 300 driver) but the trouble don't disappear. This seems a bug not very reproducable... perphaps with high printing resolutions and when the vowel is following for other(s) specific character(s), but I don't sure r8-???? 3.- The picture aspect (import option) is wrong... I think what a user wrote a Arexx script for fix this (this is in Aminet). 4.- And the know trouble with the tables (more short printed what at screen)... See you later | Nos leemos... http://www.arrakis.es/~amidde/ Spanish Amiga freelance translator ... finger 'amidde@finger.arrakis.es' -------------------<< Advertisement >>------------------- 200,000 exposures for $450? 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Then, I have a full screen real size pixels and readable, upto 8 pixels with no problems. But, the problem is that the text you type changes following to the dpi entered, but not the menu text, nor the text in the thesaurus or grammar requester. And at that time, it is quite too small (and not in 1:1) for being readable, so I have to look closer to my screen. Would that be possible for the menus and other requester to be "re-dpi" as well as the written text? I imagine also the people running a 1280 x 1024 screen, the menu text and requesters would be as well unreadable. You should do something about that (as well as for my other suggestions). -- Guillaume Ubbelohde 950947@mercure.umh.ac.be -------------------<< Advertisement >>------------------- 200,000 exposures for $450? Where? --> Coollist - http://www.coollist.com/advertise.htm --------------------------------------------------------- Return-Path: Received: from relay.ipf.net ([195.88.0.13]) by its.okay.net (Netscape Mail Server v2.02) with SMTP id AAA4922 for ; Fri, 10 Apr 1998 12:41:00 +0200 Received: (qmail 11065 invoked from network); 10 Apr 1998 10:40:58 -0000 Received: from nf1.netforward.com (204.57.67.27) by relay.ipf.net with SMTP; 10 Apr 1998 10:40:58 -0000 Date: Fri, 10 Apr 1998 05:27:44 -0500 X-Forwarder: NetForward.com To: finalwriter@coollist.com From: Guillaume Ubbelohde <950947@mercure.umh.ac.be> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Precedence: list Subject: FinalWriter..updates Reply-To: finalwriter@coollist.com Here is a list of things that should appear on further updates: 1° when you place an object inside a text, you only have the possibility to notify the next on the left or on the right. You should seriously consider implementing the ability to wrap the text on each border of the object. 2°you should implement a 'freehand' drawing tool (like the one in pagestream or wordworth). 3°add text effects possibility (again, like in pagestream or wordworth). You could even think of implementing the pretty good shareware "finalwrapper" (this way, no extra development from you would be involved) to a new update of finalwriter. 4°add the possibility to write text inside of an object, inside of a shape. 5°when you make a document with 2 columns (or more), you can't set up the lenght of each column. Let's say you want the first column to be 2cm wide and the second one the rest of the page. 6°A nice feature in wordworth is that if you click on an object, it automaticaly switch to the object mode, and when you click in a text area, it switch to the text mode. That is a nice feature with which you haven't to select the desired mode in the menubar. 7°About the menu bars, there is no options of having both bar options at the same time (not the configurable one, but the other two). So you have to switch to select a font size and switch back to select the bold mode for example. 8°A multitasking printer mode (like in wordworth) wpouldn't be a lux too. These are not critics, but improvements that could (and should) be implemented in future releases of FinalWriter, and I hope they will seriously be taken into consideration. Sincerely, -- Guillaume Ubbelohde 950947@mercure.umh.ac.be -------------------<< Advertisement >>------------------- Superior connectivity. World class hosting. Astra Labs WebHosting - http://www.astraweb.com --------------------------------------------------------- Return-Path: Received: from relay.ipf.net ([195.88.0.13]) by its.okay.net (Netscape Mail Server v2.02) with SMTP id AAA27999 for ; Sat, 11 Apr 1998 02:28:38 +0200 Received: (qmail 25949 invoked from network); 11 Apr 1998 00:28:37 -0000 Received: from nf4.netforward.com (204.57.67.249) by relay.ipf.net with SMTP; 11 Apr 1998 00:28:37 -0000 Date: Fri, 10 Apr 1998 19:25:20 -0500 X-Forwarder: NetForward.com To: finalwriter@coollist.com From: Johann Samlowski MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Type: Text/Plain Precedence: list Subject: Mailing list Reply-To: finalwriter@coollist.com -------------------<< Advertisement >>------------------- Superior connectivity. World class hosting. Astra Labs WebHosting - http://www.astraweb.com --------------------------------------------------------- Return-Path: Received: from relay.ipf.net ([195.88.0.13]) by its.okay.net (Netscape Mail Server v2.02) with SMTP id AAA18712 for ; Mon, 13 Apr 1998 10:49:36 +0200 Received: (qmail 7637 invoked from network); 13 Apr 1998 08:49:34 -0000 Received: from nf4.netforward.com (204.57.67.249) by relay.ipf.net with SMTP; 13 Apr 1998 08:49:34 -0000 Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1998 03:46:18 -0500 X-Forwarder: NetForward.com To: finalwriter@coollist.com From: "J.J. Wezenberg" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Precedence: list Subject: Newbie on this list/introduction Reply-To: finalwriter@coollist.com Hiya all, I'm new to this list and i want to give a little introduction of myself. I also think that FinalWriter is the best wordprocessor we currently have on the Amiga, although many enhancements can and should be made. Among other things, i mostly miss an import/export option for the popular wordprocessors on other platforms (e.g. Word, Wordperfect, etc). Therefore i think it's a bloody shame that the development of FW is dropped. Sadly it reflects the bad situation of our beloved computer. If the 'signature' action suggested by Manual Lemos is going to be done, i will glady add my signature and collect some more signatures from other Amigausers. Now i use SM Office and/or Wordperfect via fusion/shape- shifter to convert documents to the RTF format which i then import in FinalWriter. It's not a perfect solution but it's much better than what previous versions of Finalwriter allowed. Some things about myself: I am an Amiga user since July 1987, and am a Commodore Collector (see my signature for the machines i already collected). Besides this i'm a militairy avation enthousiast and like to read fantasy/SF books. I hope i can contribute to this list. Feel free to mail me if you have any questions :) Greetz, Hans 'MazzelBoy' Wezenberg ------------------------------------------------------------------ ____ Amiga / / / MazzelBoy | Completely Gatesfree / / / The C= Museum | Micro$oft? Just say NO! / / / Hycaps@worldonline.nl | ____ / / / \ \ \ / / / \ \ X / / SiD Amiga 1000, A500, A2000, A4000T, CDTV \_X_X_/ 6581 Commodore Vic20, C64, C128, Plus/4, C16 -------------------<< Advertisement >>------------------- Superior connectivity. World class hosting. Astra Labs WebHosting - http://www.astraweb.com --------------------------------------------------------- Return-Path: Received: from relay.ipf.net ([195.88.0.13]) by its.okay.net (Netscape Mail Server v2.02) with SMTP id AAA17935 for ; Tue, 14 Apr 1998 11:41:16 +0200 Received: (qmail 4411 invoked from network); 14 Apr 1998 09:41:08 -0000 Received: from nf2.netforward.com (204.57.67.146) by relay.ipf.net with SMTP; 14 Apr 1998 09:41:08 -0000 Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1998 04:27:41 -0500 X-Forwarder: NetForward.com To: finalwriter@coollist.com From: Dirk Neubauer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Precedence: list Subject: Re: Amiga FinalWriter Reply-To: finalwriter@coollist.com Hi Guillaume! >readable, so I have to look closer to my screen. Would that be possible for >the menus and >other requester to be "re-dpi" as well as the written text? I imagine also the >people running a 1280 x 1024 screen, the menu text and requesters would be as >well unreadable. You can take another bigger font and rename it. Then you should have no such problems. I myself have renamed a 12 point thick font (named workbench) as default into 11 points. Works fine. - Dirk Dirk Neubauer < neubauer@rz.uni-greifswald.de > My config: A1200T/030FPU 50Mhz/32MB and OS 3.1 Picasso2+ / P96 (the best) Oktagon2008 + 5gigHD/24xCD 1.76MBFloppy, CanonBJC4000 SuperVGAmi + 17"MAG --- Give GATES no chance --- Member of ATO [Translator] (German, English, Russian) >> http://ato.vapor.com/ato @@@ Only AMIGA makes it possible... @@@ -------------------<< Advertisement >>------------------- 200,000 exposures for $450? Where? --> Coollist - http://www.coollist.com/advertise.htm --------------------------------------------------------- Return-Path: Received: from relay.ipf.net ([195.88.0.13]) by its.okay.net (Netscape Mail Server v2.02) with SMTP id AAA27409 for ; Wed, 15 Apr 1998 08:35:05 +0200 Received: (qmail 9075 invoked from network); 15 Apr 1998 06:35:03 -0000 Received: from nf1.netforward.com (204.57.67.27) by relay.ipf.net with SMTP; 15 Apr 1998 06:35:03 -0000 Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1998 01:21:32 -0500 X-Forwarder: NetForward.com To: finalwriter@coollist.com From: "=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Heiko_Schr=F6der?=" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Precedence: list Subject: Re: Amiga FinalWriter Reply-To: finalwriter@coollist.com Hi, > >readable, so I have to look closer to my screen. Would that be possible for > >the menus and > >other requester to be "re-dpi" as well as the written text? I imagine also the > >people running a 1280 x 1024 screen, the menu text and requesters would be as > >well unreadable. > > You can take another bigger font and rename it. Then you should have no such > problems. I myself have renamed a 12 point thick font (named workbench) as > default into 11 points. Works fine. Unbelievable, it works really fine. You can also change the Ruler font (SWRuler/)... BTW: At Aminet exists a font for the resolution of >1024x... And it looks very "clean". Check out Aminet:text/font/ At the moment i don't know the name of this font. (the .readme file tells about "1024") Are there other special functions for the interface of FW? Bye Age __________________________________________ age@thepentagon.com USA: http://www.yi.com/home/SchroederHeiko __________________________________________ -------------------<< Advertisement >>------------------- Superior connectivity. World class hosting. Astra Labs WebHosting - http://www.astraweb.com --------------------------------------------------------- Return-Path: Received: from relay.ipf.net ([195/.88.0.13]) by its.okay.net (Netscape Mail Server v2.02) with SMTP id AAA10342 for ; Wed, 15 Apr 1998 11:09:49 +0200 Received: (qmail 16735 invoked from network); 15 Apr 1998 09:09:46 -0000 Received: from nf5.netforward.com (204.57.67.150) by relay.ipf.net with SMTP; 15 Apr 1998 09:09:46 -0000 Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1998 03:56:31 -0500 X-Forwarder: NetForward.com To: finalwriter@coollist.com From: Dirk Neubauer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Precedence: list Subject: Re: Amiga FinalWriter Reply-To: finalwriter@coollist.com Hi! >> You can take another bigger font and rename it. Then you should have no >such >> problems. I myself have renamed a 12 point thick font (named workbench) >as >> default into 11 points. Works fine. > >Unbelievable, it works really fine. Thanks. Thats a normal thing on amiga system, i think. Here a nearer explanation for all, they didnt get an result: Rename the drawer with fontfile init. Rename the fontfile (z.B. 12 -> 11) then delete the #?.font file and assign the drawer, where is init to fonts:. And then make a fixfonts. the #?.font should be rewritten. I hope that helps to all. - Dirk Dirk Neubauer < neubauer@rz.uni-greifswald.de > My config: A1200T/030FPU 50Mhz/32MB and OS 3.1 Picasso2+ / P96 (the best) Oktagon2008 + 5gigHD/24xCD 1.76MBFloppy, CanonBJC4000 SuperVGAmi + 17"MAG --- Give GATES no chance --- Member of ATO [Translator] (German, English, Russian) >> http://ato.vapor.com/ato @@@ Only AMIGA makes it possible... @@@ -------------------<< Advertisement >>------------------- Superior connectivity. World class hosting. Astra Labs WebHosting - http://www.astraweb.com --------------------------------------------------------- Return-Path: Received: from relay.ipf.net ([195.88.0.13]) by its.okay.net (Netscape Mail Server v2.02) with SMTP id AAA20243 for ; Wed, 15 Apr 1998 20:43:00 +0200 Received: (qmail 21020 invoked from network); 15 Apr 1998 18:42:56 -0000 Received: from nf5.netforward.com (204.57.67.150) by relay.ipf.net with SMTP; 15 Apr 1998 18:42:56 -0000 Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1998 13:29:34 -0500 X-Forwarder: NetForward.com To: finalwriter@coollist.com From: Guillaume Ubbelohde <950947@mercure.umh.ac.be> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Precedence: list Subject: Re[2]: Amiga FinalWriter Reply-To: finalwriter@coollist.com Le 14-Avr-98, Dirk Neubauer a écrit: > Hi Guillaume! > >> readable, so I have to look closer to my screen. Would that be possible for >> the menus and >> other requester to be "re-dpi" as well as the written text? I imagine also the >> people running a 1280 x 1024 screen, the menu text and requesters would be as >> well unreadable. > > You can take another bigger font and rename it. Then you should have no such > problems. I myself have renamed a 12 point thick font (named workbench) as > default into 11 points. Works fine. > > - Dirk > Thanks, I hadn't thought of that!! It works fine. Thanks again (for my eyes..). -- Guillaume. -------------------<< Advertisement >>------------------- Superior connectivity. World class hosting. Astra Labs WebHosting - http://www.astraweb.com --------------------------------------------------------- Return-Path: Received: from relay.ipf.net ([195.88.0.13]) by its.okay.net (Netscape Mail Server v2.02) with SMTP id AAA29908 for ; Thu, 16 Apr 1998 14:50:58 +0200 Received: (qmail 15671 invoked from network); 16 Apr 1998 12:50:56 -0000 Received: from nf2.netforward.com (204.57.67.146) by relay.ipf.net with SMTP; 16 Apr 1998 12:50:56 -0000 Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1998 07:37:46 -0500 X-Forwarder: NetForward.com To: finalwriter@coollist.com From: Guillaume Ubbelohde <950947@mercure.umh.ac.be> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Precedence: list Subject: ? Reply-To: finalwriter@coollist.com Is the amiga development of finalwriter over?? This is a shame! It is always the same, they began on the amiga and then go over to the PC. This was the case with scala, fw, imagine, lightwave, tvpaint,.... When you think that wordworth is still here on the amiga with a new version 7.0. They, at least, still believe in the amiga. Now fw is of the track, they pretend rival with word!. Well, good live to wordworth then. (is there a wordworth mailing list?) But, maybe finalwriter amiga isn't left away, I just don't know?? -- Guillaume. -------------------<< Advertisement >>------------------- Superior connectivity. World class hosting. Astra Labs WebHosting - http://www.astraweb.com --------------------------------------------------------- Return-Path: Received: from relay.ipf.net ([195.88.0.13]) by its.okay.net (Netscape Mail Server v2.02) with SMTP id AAA151 for ; Thu, 16 Apr 1998 14:54:07 +0200 Received: (qmail 15855 invoked from network); 16 Apr 1998 12:54:06 -0000 Received: from nf6.netforward.com (204.57.67.9) by relay.ipf.net with SMTP; 16 Apr 1998 12:54:06 -0000 Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1998 07:40:55 -0500 X-Forwarder: NetForward.com To: finalwriter@coollist.com From: Guillaume Ubbelohde <950947@mercure.umh.ac.be> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Precedence: list Subject: ? Reply-To: finalwriter@coollist.com Is the amiga development of finalwriter over?? This is a shame! It is always the same, they began on the amiga and then go over to the PC. This was the case with scala, fw, imagine, lightwave, tvpaint,.... When you think that wordworth is still here on the amiga with a new version 7.0. They, at least, still believe in the amiga. Now fw is of the track, they pretend rival with word!. Well, good live to wordworth then. (is there a wordworth mailing list?) But, maybe finalwriter amiga isn't left away, I just don't know?? -- Guillaume. -------------------<< Advertisement >>------------------- High bandwidth usage? No problems. http://www.astrax.com - Astra X Specialised Web Hosting --------------------------------------------------------- Return-Path: Received: from relay.ipf.net ([195.88.0.13]) by its.okay.net (Netscape Mail Server v2.02) with SMTP id AAA14179 for ; Sat, 25 Apr 1998 06:17:29 +0200 Received: (qmail 29966 invoked from network); 25 Apr 1998 04:17:28 -0000 Received: from nf6.netforward.com (204.57.67.9) by relay.ipf.net with SMTP; 25 Apr 1998 04:17:28 -0000 Date: Fri, 24 Apr 1998 23:04:18 -0500 X-Forwarder: NetForward.com To: finalwriter@coollist.com From: Donald Feldbruegge MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Type: Text/Plain Precedence: list Subject: RE: ? Reply-To: finalwriter@coollist.com On Thu, Apr 16, 1998, at 07:36 AM, Guillaume Ubbelohde wrote: :Is the amiga development of finalwriter over?? Is this so? I had not heard any news. I had been hoping that I would soon receive a letter from Softwood announcing a new upgrade; this is usually about the time of year that they have had upgrades. If this is true, it would be very sad news. I consider FinalWriter to be the best word processor on any platform. I have the ?pleasure? of using M$ Word at work. It is hard to learn and it is slow, even on a fast pentium. It also has the bad habit of crashing frequently when I am using it. I don't know how businesses have been brainwashed into using such a bad word processor. Of course there are a few little features that I wish FinalWriter would have, but I still think it is the best word processor. I hope that this report is incorrect. I want Softwood to continue supporting/developing FinalWriter! :This is a shame! It is always the same, they began on the amiga and then go :over to the PC. This was the case with scala, fw, imagine, lightwave, :tvpaint,.... :When you think that wordworth is still here on the amiga with a new version :7.0. They, at least, still believe in the amiga. Now fw is of the track, :they :pretend rival with word!. Well, good live to wordworth then. I had heard (2 or 3 years ago) that the windows version was produced by another company, under a license from Softwood. Has Softwood now started to develop this windows version themself? Well, I suppose we couldn't hardly blame them; there probably haven't been very many sales to the Amiga users any more. Best regards, Donald Feldbruegge -------------------<< Advertisement >>------------------- 200,000 exposures for $450? Where? --> Coollist - http://www.coollist.com/advertise.htm ---------------------------------------------------------