Interscript - Word processing for OS/2 PM and Windows
- Graphical environment
OS/2PM and Windows provide a graphical environment which allows you to work fast and efficently with your mouse. All the display models for your document are fully WYSIWYG so that you see exactly on your screen, what you will print. Commands can be selected in pull down menus by using the mouse or with keyboard shortcuts. The icons in the rulers and the icon bar provide another quick way to give instructions to the program.
- Compused documents
To meet all you needs, Interscript documents may contain texts edited in other word processing programs, data from spreadsheets or images created by graphical applications. These images can be imported or transferred through the clipboard.
- Automating your work
To automate your work you can use macros to record a sequence of actions or simply memorize them. Both can be reproduced at any time in one session. Macros can be associated to keyboard shortcuts, to menu options and to icons displayed in the icon bar. They can be saved so that you will be able to use them in the next Interscript sessions. A memorized sequence can only be used through one session.
- Communication with other applications
The DDE (dynamic data exchange) allows Interscript to insert information provided by another application into its own documents. This data exchange is dynamic because it also guarantees updating of shared data.
Another way of communicating with another applications is to exchange files. Interscript can load files in a foreign format in the same process as it would load its own documents. It is also possible to save files in a foreign format, so that there will be no problem importing Interscript documents to another application.
- Graphical Environment
OS/2 1.x, 2.x and Windows 3.x versions available.
- Usder friendliness
-You can edit your text in a full page layout mode (no preview mode) showing font faces and font sizes, headers, footers, multiple columns, etc...
-Text edition may be done in different views of a document, all fully WYSIWYG: text, full page, zoom.
-Context sensitive Help on line.
-Short or long menu.
-Quick command selection in the pull down menus of the menu bar or with keyboard shortcuts.
-Mouse shortcuts in the ruler or in the icon bar.
-Choice between several units of measurement: points, inches, centimeters, millimeters or percentage.
- Text formatting
-Character formatting: attributes (underline, bold, italic, etc. ...), font face and font size, character position subscript and superscript, color.
-Paragraph formatting: margins and first line ident, alignments, line spacing, before and after spacing, keep together.
-Tab positions with left, centered, right or decimal aligment.
-Adaptable page measurements.
-Multiple column text.
-Styles
-Frames for paragraphs.
- Editing text
-Cut/Copy/Paste within a document or to another text.
-Search and replace text.
-UNDO command.
-Status bar.
-Bookmarks to mark locations in your document you can easily refer to later on.
- Composed document
-Import graphics and images or insert them through the clipboard.
-Graphics and images formatting.
-Dynamic Data Exchange with other applications.
-Import entire files or spreadsheet domains.
- Tables
-Insert tables in your documents.
-Table dimensions adapt automatically to cell contents (expand or shrink).
-Format text in cells.
-Insert graphics in table cells.
-Divide or group cells in a table.
-Format cells (borders, background).
- Customizing Interscript
-Modify the menus (add, move or delete different options in the menu).
-Modify the icon bar by adding, erasing or moving icons.
-Memorize commands to create macros which can be associated to keyboard shortcuts, to menu options or to icons in the icon bar.
-Customize the screen.
- Spell checking
-Interactive spell checking to correct mistakes immediately or simply mark the errors in the text.
-English, French and German dictionaries.
-Custom dicitionaries.
-Use several dictionaries at once.
- The secret of Interscripts power
-Headers and footers for the first, pair or impair pages of the document.
-Advanced mailing and merge functions.
-Automatic saving of documents.
-Graphics and images formatting.
-Mathematics functions.
-Widow and orphan like control.
-Summary information on files to create fast retrievable documents.
-Fast management of all the documents loaded during one session.
-Automatic and customized hyphenation.
-Automatic pagination.
-Glossary to store frequently used texts for easy insert into documents.
-Drag and Drop.
- Configuration
-OS/2 1.x, 2.x and Windows 3.x
-8MB RAM (OS/2) or 4MB RAM (Windows)
-IBM-PC or compatible with 80386 or superior processor
- Printer support
All PM or Windows printers are supported
- Supported file formats
Text: DCA, RTF, WordPerfect, EpistolePC, Word, ASCII.
