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- From: tytgat@rilke.esat.kuleuven.ac.be (John Tytgat)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn
- Subject: Re: CC
- Message-ID: <1992Nov5.125526.14686@gate.esat.kuleuven.ac.be>
- Date: 5 Nov 92 12:55:26 GMT
- References: <1992Nov4.133522.12216@cs.utwente.nl>
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- Organization: K.U.Leuven, Belgium
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- Subject: Re: CC
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn
- References: <1992Nov4.133522.12216@cs.utwente.nl>
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- kortink@cs.utwente.nl (John Kortink) writes on behalf of Leslie Currell :
-
- > [ShowPage fix for RISC OS 3 deleted]
- >
- > Finally, a couple of further gripes concerning Computer Concepts. Despite
- > what the realease notes for RiscOS 3.1 imply, you *can't* use some of the
- > 'special' features such as rotated text/sprites with Laser Direct (driver
- > version 2.05). Nor are the Resource fonts usable even with the 'text only'
- > option toggled off. Even more strange how Impression (2.17) complains that
- > the driver is for RiscOS 2
-
- Impression is just right when he complains that the driver is for RISC OS 2.
- In fact, this complain is just been given to inform you that you can't use,
- as you already mentioned, the 'special' features like rotated text & sprites.
-
- > The second gripe concerns Artworks. At Cebit this year, CC's Gordon Taylor
- > demonstrated an "almost ready" version of said program placing particular
- > emphasis on its' ability to edit text within moulds or text on a path. In
- > fact I saw him do it! Now I have the program I find these, and other
- > features missing. So what's happened I ask? Do we have a cut down 'junior'
- > version with the prospect of a professional version appearing later, or have
- > they rushed it out onto an unsuspecting public just to capitalise on glowing
- > test reports of 'early' versions in the Acorn press.
-
- I know that the text edit facilities in ArtWorks have been changed several
- times during its development. Don't ask me why, I do not know it either.
- But it *is* possible to edit text within moulds and certainly text on a
- path :
-
- The tric is to temporary store the mould and reset it to plain text. Then
- you can edit it (the text does not to be horizontal. You can edit text
- which is placed under an angle). Afterwards you just imply the mould form
- and that's it. I know it's not that straight forward (I would love to edit
- text directly in its mould form...) but did you RTFM ???
-
- > I remember seeing a
- > preview at last years BAU show which indicates an extremely long gestation
- > period, so why haven't they got it right yet? Btw, don't throw away
- > !EPS>Draw as many of the larger EPS files (eg. Locomotive from Corel Draw)
- > will not save from Artworks to Draw format, issuing instead the wonderfully
- > helpful error message "!".
-
- Were you using *original* EPS files in your experiment ??? The 'EPS' files
- supplied with the !EPS>Draw application are in fact *not* real EPS files
- (header missing etc.)... Also, in the case you were using real EPS Corel
- Draw files, are you sure they came from a version which is understood by
- ArtWorks ???
-
- > The new Graphics card from CC also has some problems. These were denied at
- > the BAU show, but a collegue who recently had one to test found that it
- > wouldn't work at all in his A540 (totally blank screen effect). Subsequent
- > testing in a A5000 showed the card to be fundamentally in order albeit slow
- > in comparison with the other candidate from State Machine (also tested). I
- > should in fairness state that the latter also has a few shortcomings,
- > especially with respect to some non-M/S modes, not all of which are fully
- > emulated yet.
-
- This surprises me a bit. I *thought* I saw CC's graphics card in an A540
- at the BAU show... And about the speed : I presume you compared the 2 cards
- in the same modes (vertical & horizontal resolutions) and in the same machine.
- Normally CC's graphics cart has to be *faster* because they allow a lower
- update frequency (12 Hz) of their VRAM than SM does, resulting in less DMA.
- Don't confuse the 'update frequency' with the 'speed of the graphics card'
- which is actually the speed of your machine. The lower update frequency has
- the disadvantage that their card is unusable for animations.
-
- John
- tytgat@esat.kuleuven.ac.be (do not thrust my e-mail address in the header)
- BASS
-