© HAAGE & PARTNER Computer GmbH  Schlossborner Weg 7 61479 Glashuetten/Taunus Tel: +49 61 74 / 96 61 00 Fax: +49 61 74 / 96 61 01 Internet: amigawriter-support@haage-partner.com Homepage: http://www.haage-partner.com Please install AmigaWriter on your harddisk. Open the english manual and read what is possible with AmigaWriter an where you can get the product and support. AmigaWriter 2.0 The word processor that leaves a mark AmigaWriter is the ideal program for pupils, students and engineers because it provides real footnotes and can even import Word documents from Windows PCs o Macintosh computers. On top of that AmigaWriter offers a refined chapter management system and can automatically create the table of contents for your documents. Another first on the Amiga is AmigaWriter's ability to display anti- aliased TrueType fonts making even small text much more readable. AmigaWriter also offers a lot of functionality that is typically reserved for DTP packages: Boxes for text, graphics and various other objects can be placed freely, linked text boxes, freely editable page formats, flexible paragraph formats, automatic paragraph control, extensive font manipulation, freely definable paragraph and character formats and the ability to create booklet. New features of version 2.0 - MSWord (tm) import - TrueType support with anti-aliasing - Font substitution - Support for AmigaOS 3.5 - Booklet printing, landscape printing, tiled printing - True color printing even without a graphics board - fast black&white printing - 4-color optimized on ECS/AGA Amigas - improved image cache - many improvements and error corrections More details on the new features - Further features of AmigaWriter 2.0 - WYSIWYG footnotes - automatic table of contents - multilingual hyphenation algorithm - Spellchecker with recommendations of alternatives - Document templates - Chapter management - extensive DTP functionality What the press said "AmigaWriter is up to this point the first and only Amiga word processor that features a footnote management which deserves to be called so." (AmigaSpecial 12/98) Excellent (Amiga Magazin 9/98) System requirements Amiga with 68030 CPU AmigaOS 3.x Hard drive CD-ROM drive at least 8 Mbytes of RAM More details: 1. MSWord Import AmigaWriter 2.0 is able to import MSWord 8 (MSWord 95) documents. The following properties of the documents are supported: a) The text itself including all umlauts and European special characters, but not Unicode (Japanese, etc.). b) Paragraph formatting such as alignment (left, right, aligned, centered), indentation, tab stops, row distance, paragraph distance, etc. c) Character formatting such as font, size, style (bold, italics, underlined, strikeout, small caps), color etc. MSWord documents are automatically recognized and loaded, it is not necessary to call a special import command. 2. TrueType Font Engine AmigaWriter now features a TrueType font engine. This has a number of advantages over using the AmigaOS font engine: a) On-screen anti-aliasing: For the first time it is possible to sensibly work with 8 or 10 point fonts on an Amiga computer. b) Simple font installation: Any directory that contains TrueType font files can simply be added to the font path. No files in addition to the .ttf files are needed and there is no necessity for a separate font installation program. 3. Font substitution Especially in context with the MSWord import it is important that AmigaWriter allows for the substitution of unknown fonts with fonts available in the system. Every time AmigaWriter encounters a reference to a font that can not be found it opens a dialog window (with preview) for choosing a replacement font. The actual font name does not get lost in the document, the font is only substituted in the screen display. Font substitution also allows you to choose a different style (e.g. Helvetica Black is substituted with Triumvirate + Bold). The font substitution table is saved along with the program preferences. 4. AmigaOS 3.5 Support AmigaWriter supports all new features AmigaOS 3.5 offers for printer output: a) You can choose one of the 10 printer units to easily switch e.g. between printer output, fax output and network printing. b) Print margins can be obtained from the printer driver. c) The user interface adapts itself to the driver and displays additional information on the selected print resolution, etc. 5. Printing of booklets, landscape printing, tiled printing AmigaWriter is now capable of printing on A4 pages or letter envelopes in landscape orientation. Booklet printing allows for the comfortable creation of booklets with double-sided printing (such as this one). When printing, two A5 pages are printed onto one sheet of A4 paper. In combination with double-sided printing all it takes is to crease the paper along the middle to obtain the finished booklet. The exact placement of the pages on the paper is handled entirely by AmigaWriter. Tiled printing enables you to print as many pages (e.g. 3 pages top-down, and 2 pages across) on a single sheet of paper, e.g. for printing business cards. 6. True color printing even without graphics board All image processing is performed without resorting to the AmigaOS graphics libraries or third party graphics drivers. This enables users who do not own a graphics board to perform true-color printing on any system with OS 3.5 and/or Turboprint. On OS 3.1 systems without graphics board there are still 4096 colors available. This also eliminates the annoying background screen that up to know had to be opened during printer output. 7. Very fast black&white printing You can order AmigaWriter to perform all graphics processing in black&white only. This is very fast and memory-conserving. 8. Faster output on ECS/AGA AmigaWriter can be configured to utilize a special 4-color mode for all display operations. This results in only four colors (black, white, grey, blue) being used for all screen displays, even on screens with higher color depths (such as 256 colors). All images are displayed in black&white only. This mode gains a lot of speed on machines with a fast CPU (68060 or PPC) and AGA graphics. 9. Improved image cache. The original image data is held in a cache, eliminating the need for frequent reloads when scrolling text or printing the document. 10. A lot more improvements have found their way into AmigaWriter 2.0 Among them are: a) The AmigaWriter: assign is set automatically upon program start (if not already present). b) The settings and document directories are created auto- matically if necessary. c) The ASL requester for loading and saving documents acts a lot more sane and does not always return to the document directory. d) Graphics glitches that occurred when scrolling and near boxes that were close to page borders have been corrected. e) improved memory management "The enclosed TrueType Fonts are (c) 1991-2000 SoftMaker GmbH and/or their licenser" © 2000 HAAGE & PARTNER Computer GmbH - We develop to WarpUp the AMIGA