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6. AmigaWriter 2.0 announced

Haage & Partner (http://www.haage-partner.com) informs:

»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 or 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: Freely placable boxes for text, graphics and various other objects, 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 supportwith 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

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 processer 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
• At least 8 MByte of RAM