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- From: us013502@interramp.com (Woody Williams)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
- Subject: Re: FW 4.01 and FD 3
- Date: Wed, 31 Jan 1996 17:36:23 -0700
- Organization: SoftWood, Inc.
- Message-ID: <us013502-3101961736230001@ip184.phoenix.az.interramp.com>
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- In article <4eni3n$gfl@metroux.metrobbs.com>,
- mafuller@clubmet.metrobbs.com wrote:
-
- > I am involved in a legal case (not mine!) and suddenly got some ideas for
- > Final Writer and Final Data. I was listening to some fellow Fire
- > Fighters discussing their presentation and how it was produced. They had
- > their slides produced and were remarking it would have been wonderful to
- > have had a briefing book of some sort so they could take to the stand
- > with them so they could que all their notes with their pictures.
- >
- > Final Writer will of course import pictures and gives you great control
- > how they are displayed in your doc. It will also do a table of contents
- > and all that other stuff. The problem is that with the large amount of
- > slides, graphs and other visuals in an arson case, doing the doc would be
- > very time consuming.
- >
- > It would be nice if you could do some of that work in Final Data which is
- > idealy set for this kind of work. FD 3 allows datatypes to be stored and
- > manipulated like any other data. Would it not also be nice if could be
- > quickly imported to FW? FD would allow you to enter and sort your data
- > and datatypes and FW would allow you to format and print.
- >
- > The Fire Fighter talking about this wished his PC could do that more
- > easily. Maybe I don't know my programs very well. IF this can be done
- > please let know how, if not maybe Softwood should examine how the use of
- > datatypes would be improved. If I could print what I have in FD
- > (pictures and other visual datatypes) then I would be a lot farther ahead.
- >
- > What do you think?
- >
-
- Nice suggestion. Honoring my philosophy not to preannounce too far in
- advance all I will say is that FW5 already supports datatypes.
-
- --
- Woody
-