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© HAAGE & PARTNER Computer GmbH
Schlossborner Weg 7
61479 Glashuetten/Taunus
Tel: +49 61 74 / 96 61 00
Fax: +49 61 74 / 96 61 01
Internet: amigawriter-support@haage-partner.com
Homepage: http://www.haage-partner.com
Please install AmigaWriter on your harddisk. Open the english
manual and read what is possible with AmigaWriter an where you
can get the product and support.
AmigaWriter 2.0
The word processor that leaves a mark
AmigaWriter is the ideal program for pupils, students and engineers
because it provides real footnotes and can even import Word
documents from Windows PCs o Macintosh computers. On top of that
AmigaWriter offers a refined chapter management system and can
automatically create the table of contents for your documents.
Another first on the Amiga is AmigaWriter's ability to display anti-
aliased TrueType fonts making even small text much more readable.
AmigaWriter also offers a lot of functionality that is typically
reserved for DTP packages: Boxes for text, graphics and various
other objects can be placed freely, linked text boxes, freely
editable page formats, flexible paragraph formats, automatic paragraph
control, extensive font manipulation, freely definable paragraph and
character formats and the ability to create booklet.
New features of version 2.0
- MSWord (tm) import
- TrueType support with anti-aliasing
- Font substitution
- Support for AmigaOS 3.5
- Booklet printing, landscape printing, tiled printing
- True color printing even without a graphics board
- fast black&white printing
- 4-color optimized on ECS/AGA Amigas
- improved image cache
- many improvements and error corrections
More details on the new features
- Further features of AmigaWriter 2.0
- WYSIWYG footnotes
- automatic table of contents
- multilingual hyphenation algorithm
- Spellchecker with recommendations of alternatives
- Document templates
- Chapter management
- extensive DTP functionality
What the press said
"AmigaWriter is up to this point the first and only Amiga word
processor that features a footnote management which deserves to
be called so." (AmigaSpecial 12/98) Excellent (Amiga Magazin 9/98)
System requirements
Amiga with 68030 CPU
AmigaOS 3.x
Hard drive
CD-ROM drive
at least 8 Mbytes of RAM
More details:
1. MSWord Import
AmigaWriter 2.0 is able to import MSWord 8 (MSWord 95) documents.
The following properties of the documents are supported:
a) The text itself including all umlauts and European special
characters, but not Unicode (Japanese, etc.).
b) Paragraph formatting such as alignment (left, right, aligned,
centered), indentation, tab stops, row distance, paragraph
distance, etc.
c) Character formatting such as font, size, style (bold, italics,
underlined, strikeout, small caps), color etc.
MSWord documents are automatically recognized and loaded, it is
not necessary to call a special import command.
2. TrueType Font Engine
AmigaWriter now features a TrueType font engine. This has a number
of advantages over using the AmigaOS font engine:
a) On-screen anti-aliasing: For the first time it is possible
to sensibly work with 8 or 10 point fonts on an Amiga computer.
b) Simple font installation: Any directory that contains TrueType
font files can simply be added to the font path. No files in
addition to the .ttf files are needed and there is no necessity
for a separate font installation program.
3. Font substitution
Especially in context with the MSWord import it is important that
AmigaWriter allows for the substitution of unknown fonts with fonts
available in the system. Every time AmigaWriter encounters a
reference to a font that can not be found it opens a dialog window
(with preview) for choosing a replacement font.
The actual font name does not get lost in the document, the font
is only substituted in the screen display.
Font substitution also allows you to choose a different style
(e.g. Helvetica Black is substituted with Triumvirate + Bold).
The font substitution table is saved along with the program preferences.
4. AmigaOS 3.5 Support
AmigaWriter supports all new features AmigaOS 3.5 offers for
printer output:
a) You can choose one of the 10 printer units to easily switch
e.g. between printer output, fax output and network printing.
b) Print margins can be obtained from the printer driver.
c) The user interface adapts itself to the driver and displays
additional information on the selected print resolution, etc.
5. Printing of booklets, landscape printing, tiled printing
AmigaWriter is now capable of printing on A4 pages or letter
envelopes in landscape orientation.
Booklet printing allows for the comfortable creation of booklets
with double-sided printing (such as this one). When printing, two
A5 pages are printed onto one sheet of A4 paper. In combination
with double-sided printing all it takes is to crease the paper
along the middle to obtain the finished booklet. The exact placement
of the pages on the paper is handled entirely by AmigaWriter.
Tiled printing enables you to print as many pages (e.g. 3 pages
top-down, and 2 pages across) on a single sheet of paper, e.g.
for printing business cards.
6. True color printing even without graphics board
All image processing is performed without resorting to the
AmigaOS graphics libraries or third party graphics drivers.
This enables users who do not own a graphics board to perform
true-color printing on any system with OS 3.5 and/or Turboprint.
On OS 3.1 systems without graphics board there are still 4096
colors available.
This also eliminates the annoying background screen that up
to know had to be opened during printer output.
7. Very fast black&white printing
You can order AmigaWriter to perform all graphics processing in
black&white only. This is very fast and memory-conserving.
8. Faster output on ECS/AGA
AmigaWriter can be configured to utilize a special 4-color
mode for all display operations. This results in only four
colors (black, white, grey, blue) being used for all screen
displays, even on screens with higher color depths (such as
256 colors). All images are displayed in black&white only.
This mode gains a lot of speed on machines with a fast CPU
(68060 or PPC) and AGA graphics.
9. Improved image cache.
The original image data is held in a cache, eliminating the
need for frequent reloads when scrolling text or printing
the document.
10. A lot more improvements have found their way into
AmigaWriter 2.0
Among them are:
a) The AmigaWriter: assign is set automatically upon program
start (if not already present).
b) The settings and document directories are created auto-
matically if necessary.
c) The ASL requester for loading and saving documents acts
a lot more sane and does not always return to the document
directory.
d) Graphics glitches that occurred when scrolling and near boxes
that were close to page borders have been corrected.
e) improved memory management
"The enclosed TrueType Fonts are (c) 1991-2000 SoftMaker GmbH
and/or their licenser"
© 2000 HAAGE & PARTNER Computer GmbH - We develop to WarpUp the AMIGA