Software of the Month Club March 1995 DESKTOP PUBLISHING Antiquities II = ANTQ.ZIP by The John Stewart Co. A collection of six graphics files in JPG format. A mysterious Mayan temples rising out of the jungle, an ape posing with a wooden staff, under a tree, and a medieval buildings basking in somewhat dramatic lighting are just a sample of what you will see. Clip Watch v1.0 = CLIPW.ZIP by Blind Mellon Software How many times have lamented the fact that the Windows clipboard will only hold one clipping at a time? Have you ever wanted to clip something from your spreadsheet, database, and word processor without having to take the time to copy them into your desktop publishing package one at a time? Clip Watch offers a handy solution. Clip Watch monitors the clipboard and, anytime text is clipped, Clip Watch places it in one of its eighteen buffers. Each buffer is available to edit, copy, paste, or delete at your leisure. No more hopping from one application to another. Simply clip everything you need, edit the data, and then paste it in the final application - all at once! Requires MS Windows v3.x Dropcap Heaven = DROPCAP.ZIP by Daniel Group Communications Dropcaps can add greatly to the look of your documents. But, creating a dropcap can be a chore. Dropcap Heaven helps take the pain out of using this attractive style. Dropcap Heaven consists of 26 Windows Meta Files, one for each letter. Done in a Times Roman style, these WMF's allow you to easily add the distinct look produced by dropcaps. Get the drop on your documents with Dropcap Heaven. ESF's TrueType Collection 1 v2.0 = ESFTT1.ZIP by Elfring Soft Fonts This is a supurb collection of 12 truetype fonts. From a distinguished looking Old English font to a sophisticated Cursive Elegant script font, these fonts are the perfect addition to any font collection. Each font contains the entire character set, something many fonts fail to provide. You'll delight in the excellance of these new fonts. Expertly rendered, they will add grace, style, and glammer to all your written materials. FontBook Professional v3.00 = FONTBK.ZIP by Rams' Island Software This is a dynomite font management program! With FontBook Professional, you can select, install, preview, print, and remove any or all of your fonts. Actual books of you fonts can be created in different formats, styles and sizes. You can even use FontBook Professional to gather the metric information about each of your fonts. A definite must for anyone remotely interested in DTP. Requires Windows v3.x Fontsale = FONTSA.ZIP by Thomas E. Harvey This font is somewhat unusual. It seems to be a disjointed collection of styles and designs all forced together into one font. This provides the vehicle for eye-catching, totally informal, headlines, column headers, or any of a dozen other applications. If you want something new and different, you want Fontsale. FontSee v3.0 = FNTSEE.ZIP by Alan D. Reeve FontSee is a small but extremely useful and fast font viewer. You have five different viewing modes from which to choose. View fonts as ASCII character sets, font names only, character string, rotated, or keyboard layout. In keyboard layout, you can select a character for pasting into another application (great for using those Wingding fonts). You can even print font samples from FontSee. The best part of FontSee, however, is its speed. No long wait for FontSee to load. Click the FontSee icon, and up pops your font list. Requires MS Windows v3.x Graphics Files = GRAPHICS.ZIP These files are provided for use with QPEG which is described below. Fractal Bitmaps = FRKTIL.ZIP A collection of stunning, intricate designs in BMP format. Mayan Bitmaps = MAYNDB.ZIP by OAK Oracle RBBS Three mayan style graphics in BMP format. Interesting and different artwork. Picture View v1.00 = PIC.ZIP by Blind Mellon Software Picture View is a small utility program that allow you to scan your drives for BMP and ICO files and then copy, move, delete, or edit them. Picture View is fast and easy to use. You specify the editor to use for each file type and then it is just a button click away. As an added little feature, you can easily launch any application from Picture View. Requires MS Windows v3.x Projector for Windows = PRJTOR.ZIP by Bruce W. Nunnally Projector serves two separate purposes. First, it serves as a previewer for graphics and sound files. You may view or listen to files individually, or create moving presentations complete with pictures and sound. These presentations can then be saved and used for Projectors second purpose, a Windows screen saver. What a bargin! A previewer and screen saver all in one. And, you get to put together the screen saver graphics and sounds! Requires MS Windows v3.x QPEG v1.5e = QPEG.ZIP by TBH-Softworx QPEG is just about the fastest graphics file viewer we've seen. It supports JPG, TGA, GIF, PCX, BMP IFF/ILBM formats. A small preview screen presents the graphic in black and white as you browse through your graphics directory. QPEG will even give you a slide show of your graphics files. Still, the best feature is it's blinding speed. Requires 386 or better and VGA or better. UltiMOD Player for Windows v3.1a = ULTIMO.ZIP by Thomas W. Olsen UltiMOD is an excellent Windows MOD player. Some of its many features are: * Full 16-Bit 44.1kHz Stereo Sound * Dual Channel Graphical LED Output Meter * Drag-and-Drop File Capability * Auto-Repeat Current Selection * CD Player-Like Controls * Remembers Last 5 Selections for Quick Recall * OnLine Help * MCI-Compatible! Playback with Windows Media Player UltiMOD is compatible with any Windows Multimedia (MPC) Compatible Sound Card, including SoundBlaster, MediaVision, AdLib, etc. Now you can start your MOD collection knowing you have the perfect player to let you fully enjoy them. Requires Windows v3.x