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- From: ajackson@alladin.demon.co.uk (Action Jackson)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics
- Subject: Re: PROVECTOR any good?
- Date: Tue, 12 Mar 1996 17:06:57 GMT
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- perrym@amioz.apana.org.au (Perry Mowbray) wrote:
-
- >In a message of 05 Mar 96 FTS wrote to All:
-
- > F> Hello everybody,
-
- >G'day
-
- > F> does anybody of you use PROVECTOR from Stylus? I would like to buy it
- > F> but
- > F> get some more informative infos at the beginning. I did a short test of
- > F> the demo on Aminet 7, but would like to here someone's opinion on it.
- > F> BTW, what is its retail price in the US and where could I try to buy
- > F> from
- > F> Germany?
-
- >IMHO.....
- >It has a huge arexx port
- >It exports in postscript, iff, HPGL & HPGL2, adobe illustrator!
- >It imports iff, HPGL & 2, postscript!
- >Many internal object warp, mangle and changes
- >Comes with a tracer
- >Is fast (on my 4k '040)
- >DOES NOT CRASH.
-
- >I use it as a CAD package (I tried most of the others without much success
- >:( !). It is that flexible! I have written many arexx scripts to CADify it,
- >and alter the HPGL export to support fully my 8 pen plotter.
-
- >It is very well supported by Stylus! They have answered all my queries very
- >quickly. This is not to say that there are features I'd like to see
- >implemented, but the package as is, saves me time and makes me money. I can
- >only recommend it!
-
- >One big problem I have found though, is that ProVector's native format is
- >not well supported by PageStream (my DTP), therefore images need to be
- >exported in a different format is used in PageStream :( !!
-
- >Regards,
- >PM
-
- >**************************************************************************
- >Perry Mowbray
- >Email: perrym@amioz.apana.org.au
- >FIDO: 3:713/817.7
- >AmigaNet: 41:200/817.7
- >**************************************************************************
-
-
- Does it support gradient fills, Pantone colours, layers or 24bit
- displays (CyberGfx). Ie is it a pro product like Corel, Illustrator
- etc or just another structured graphics wanna-be...
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