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- From: Paul Chan <paul>
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- Subject: Re: Final Writer 5 Features
- Date: Fri, 12 Apr 1996 10:43:19 GMT
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- dmeyer@tiac.net (David Meyer) wrote:
- >Digita International (info@digita.demon.co.uk) wrote:
- >: woody@softwood.com (Woody Williams) wrote:
- >:
- >: >1. Added "Font" menu item that bypasses TypeSpecs requester and goes
- >: >directly to the font requester.
- >: >2. Added predefined zoom magnification levels to the "View" menu.
-
- I`m sure these were in FW 1-3...
-
- >: >4. Implemented "Next" style.
- >: >5. Implemented "Based On" style.
- >: >6. Increased maximum main styles from 16 to 256.
- >: >9. Begin new documents using templates.
- >: >11. AutoCorrect--correct as you type.
- >: >15. tables
-
- The Digita implementation, while nice, isn`t quite what I expect from tables,
- escpecially when you look at the implementation in Word.
-
- >: >17. ASL file requester option.
- >: >22. RTF import/export--this is a full, useful implementation unlike...
-
- This bit really makes me laugh about WW3.1 - the RTF feature wasn`t really that
- useful to me. Either Word and/or WW3.1 were screwing up the file format making
- the idea useless.
-
- >:
- >: These features sound familiar, I wonder where I saw them before?
- >:
- > Numbers 1 & 2 were in Final Copy v1, perhaps that is where you
- >saw it? Number 6 is an extention of something that's been around for a
- >while - rather minor, given that few users rely on styles enough to ever
- >worry about a maximum of 16. A couple of the others I've seen in MS Word
- >2.0, an old program. Most of them were on the wishlist created through
- >this newsgroup.
-
- Quite true. A lot of features added to FW and indeed WW are still playing
- catchup when compared with a program like Word.
-
- > Since you brought up the "where have I seen this feature before"
- >line, the review of WW5 in the May Amiga Shopper pointed out a number of
- >new features in that product. ARexx support. Font effects such as
- >Stretch, Oblique, Small Caps, Strike-Through, Double-Underline and
- >Superscript. Where have we seen -those- -all- before? And, what happened
- >to All Caps and Subscript? Or did Mr Sandiford simply neglect to mention
- >them? Ahh! He -did- catch on to Hanging Indents and Bullets as button
- >items. Seen those before, too, have we?
- > Not trying to put your product down, just you. You pick out ten
- >items from a 23-item list and claim to have been there first. Three of
- >those ten are nothing you have any right to claim seniority with. Three
- >more are nothing you originated. That leaves four. Against that, you just
- >caught up - potentially - with ARexx, Font Effects (?), Hanging Indents,
- >and Bullets. Sounds like a wash to me. Oh, what about the other dozen+
- >improvements that you neglected to mention? Why not quit the business of
- >making petty, inaccurate, misleading remarks and go back to improving
- >your product? These comments just make you look like scum.
-
- My thoughts exactly. And add the fact that I`ve not really used WW3.1 since I
- bought it for the following reasons:
-
- Italics are screwed. I nicked the Windows TrueType ttf files (e.g. Arial, Arial
- Bold, Arial Bold_Italic, Arial Italic) and tried them in Wordworth 3.1 -
- pressing the "I" button to select italic didn`t make the program select the
- existing italic version of Arial, it just obliqued the text mathematically
- (which doesn`t look nice next to a proper italic font). It`s much worse using
- Times New Roman. What`s worse was while using something like Times New Roman
- Italic, if I pressed the "I" button, the text was *further obliqued*!
-
- Then printing. I have a Canon Bubblejet and HP 4MP Postscript printer. When I
- start a document, I have to pick what printer I`m going to use then change the
- printer setup accordingly. I then lose access to most of my fonts. If I wish to
- make a switch half-way through I`m screwed becuase the text will reformat in a
- different font. With Finalwriter, I don`t have to worry about this at all.
-
- I know a lot of the blame goes down to using the Compugraphic font format, but
- they could have at least added an option to use Propage .psfont definitions -
- which work quite well.
-
- By using NimbusQ (Adobe Type 1) and proper fonts for italics and bold, etc,
- Finalwriter avoided the need to faff about with ps and preferences printers,
- got good looking typefaces (not mathematical adjustments) and consequently, I
- use FW exclusively for anything of importance and WW3.1 is a white elephant (I
- use it for the odd one shot experiment).
-
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