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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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