SOFTWARE
Name Price Rating Comment Win 95 Win 3.1 From Tel no Issue Page Additional comments, notes
DTP/Document production
Allclear £200 llllmm Comprehensive flowcharting. Dreadful manual. Y Guildsoft 01752 895100 9 124
Authordocs £145 llllmm Logical companion to your word processor. Y Y ABMS 01256 818583 15 135
Capella £101 lllllm Powerful and easy to use score publisher with MIDI connectivity. Y Y Software Partners 01926 842998 15 130 recommended.
Common Ground 2 £120 llllmm Useful for creating hardware and software independent documents. Y Y Fontworks 0171 490 2002 14 178
Corel Ventura 5 £349 llllmm Easy to use both for long and short documents. Y Corel 0800 581028 3 140
Delrina Perform £69 lllllm Generally excellent stand alone forms package. Y Delrina 0181 207 3163 10 140 recommended.
Font Consultant 2 £50 lllllm Highly polished font management tool. Y Max Software 01902 374858 7 140 recommended.
Fontographer 4.1 £399 lllllm The Rolls Royce of font editing and creation. Y Y Softline 0181 401 1234 21 150 recommended
FrameMaker 5 £695 lllmmm Ideal for long and complicated documents. Y Y Frame Technology 0181 606 4100 9 116
HotDocs £99 llllmm Quick and simple automatic document production. Y Y Quintec International 01268 270601 24 194
JetForm Design £399 llllmm Powerful forms designer hampered by an old fashioned interface. Y Y JetForm Corporation 01905 795079 21 141
Omniform 2 £299 llllmm User friendly, but lacks the features of high end packages. Y Y Caere Corporation 0171 222 3200 25 198
Ornamatica £30 lllmmm Nice idea, but awkward to use and variable results. Y Y Digital Workshop 01290 258335 24 185
PageMaker 6 £515 lllllm More a collection of add-ons than a major overhaul. A worthwhile upgrade. Y Y Adobe 0131 451 6888 15 110 recommended
PagePlus Home/Office Edition £43 llllmm Good value budget DTP. Y N Serif 0800 924925 17 128
Print House £79 lllllm Quick and easy solution to varied document printing needs. Y Y Channel Market Makers 01703 814822 17 127
Publisher 95 £68 llllmm Friendly and powerful. High demands on hardware. Y N Microsoft 0345 002000 14 172
Pianzhang 2 £895 lllmmm Makes long document production possible, though not especially easy. Y Y Miles 33 01344 861133 21 140
Spellwrite £25 llllmm Useful spelling checker. Y Future Software Developments 01207 544030 1 150
Toplevel Forms £149 lllmmm Moderate flatfile database that emphasises form designing capabilities. Y TopLevel 01453 753955 2 163
Type Designer 3 £120 lllmmm High-end features at the expense of basic functionality and ease of use. Y Y NRB Systems 0181 570 3034 16 138
Type Twister 1 £30 llllmm Easy to use and cheap type manipulation package. Good effects. Y Iona Software 0181 296 9454 2 180

Last Update: 15/10/96

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