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║ Mini-Review of PAFABLTY - From File PAFABLTY.REV ║
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║ PAF Review - Edition 94.4 - December 1994 ║
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Summary: For a genealogist on a tight budget who wants to produce a
family history from PAF, PAF Ability is probably your best bet. For
producing a compact listing of your data to take with you on a research
trip, it is excellent. It is easy to use and produces about as nice an
appearance as possible using the fixed pitch fonts that it supports. If
you have a laser printer and a good word processor like Word Perfect or
Microsoft's Word, you would probably be much happier with GENBOOK if you
are going to publish. Although GENBOOK cost's $49 more than PAF
Ability, it is far more powerful in combination with your word
processor.
Review: PAF Ability has an attractive and effective user interface with
pull down menus and mouse support. The user can choose to include
source notes, other notes, both or neither. PAF Ability optionally
generates an index of one or two columns and can also include dot
leaders and birth/death dates. The page format can be controlled by the
user including margins on all four sides and the amount of space between
headers/footers and text. The user has extensive control over the
format for names and place names. After setting the options, most can
be saved and carried over to another printing session. There is a very
easy to use, and powerful search capability to help you find the
individual you want to base your report on.
PAF Ability allows you to select either an Epson dot matrix or an HP
Laser printer. A third option is to include no printer codes in the
output. The user can choose to use only 10 or 17 pitch fixed fonts.
I was working with the latest version of PAF Ability, version 2.07,
which was released in February 1993.
Weaknesses: If the user has a printer which supports publication quality
proportional fonts, they still can't be used.
Although the output can be written to a file, input to a word processor
for use of better fonts, or inclusion of pictures and graphics is not
supported and would be difficult although not impossible.
PAF Ability is sensitive to the format of notes. Embedded blanks in
your notes (e.g. from indenting) mess up the appearance of it's output
report.
Interpretation of some contents of date fields which were added in
version 2.31 of PAF is not available in this version. The author is
working on the necessary revisions.