The Monthly Software Collection
Loadstar is a collection of exciting new Commodore programs, published monthly on S' t-inch diskettes. Disk issues contain quality, readv-to-run Commodore 64 and 128 software home and business, education, music, graphics, animation, utilities, tutorials, games, and bonus programs from popular software developers. Loadstar provides an endless number of things to do with your Commodore. Subscribers enjoy more than a hundred programs every year for pennies each, including C-64 and C-128 programs...
Professional Page
It's coming. We'll have a copy in our hands in just a few weeks. We can't wait. It's Professional Page, the big brother of Gold Disk's PageSetter. If you believe half of what they're promising in their sales and promotional literature, everybody should just toss out their Macs and PCs and professional typesetting equipment now and order an Amiga and a copy of this color desktop publishing package. What will it do Well, let's just take a look at their three-page brochure kerning,...
Differences
If I had to sum it all up in one short statement, I'd say that Butcher approaches image processing from the artist's point of view, but PIXmate treats the whole process like a science. All of Butcher's tools are up front and easily accessible. Chopping, merging, and blending colors is a simple process, as is filtering odd pixels out of a digitized image. There is even a limited DRAW mode toolbox for subtle manual retouching of details. I like it for refining video artwork because it is fast,...
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overlays and templates of various types conversions from Doodle , Flexidraw and the Print Shop drawings of popular personalities and the list goes on. Topping the list, though and who could have guessed it would seem to be that perennial favorite the female nude form - or something vaguely approximating it. Tony Valve, with his decidedly Nagelian touch, has emerged as an early favorite. Unfortunately, at the other end of the scale are 'works' which more closely resemble the stuff frequently...
The Bottom Line 1
Each program additionally was full of other assets and liabilities. Both do kerning attractively fitting letters together and make it possible to change leading spacing between lines. Neither supports automatic hyphenation. PageSetter provides an optional LaserScript disk that contains PostScript fonts for laser printing which will provide truly impressive final results . Both lack automatic page numbering. Publisher 1000 has no graphic editor but does incorporate a good pattern editor to...