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From: soft-logik@cup.portal.com (Kevin W Davidson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: Re: Error in Pagestream PostScript
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 92 20:07:50 PST
Organization: The Portal System (TM)

>I have discovered an error in Pagestream 2.21 generated PostScript code.  The
>error deals with the code that handles the generation of arrows at the end
>of lines.
>
>In /doendstyle there is a line that reads:
>
>/angle dy dx atan def
>
>If dx and dy are both zero, this causes an /undefinedresult error with atan in
>standard PostScript.  A couple of documents that I have recently produced
>have generated this error when I attempted to print them.  A proposed solution
>is to change this line to:
>
>/angle dy dx 2 copy add 0 eq {pop pop 0} {atan} ifelse def
>
>which will return zero if both operands are zero, otherwise it will perform
>the atan function with the original operands...
>
>Dave
>
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Gee, I thought that was fixed. Are you running the latest version of the
PostScript printer driver? The current one is version 2.2.11.

Kevin Davidson, Asst. Moderator AmigaZone Vendor Support - PORTAL
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: PageStream Printout
From: dave@dogbox.acme.gen.nz (David Dustin)
Date: Tue, 24 Nov 92 13:14:41 +1300
Organization: The Dawghaus BBS, Palmerston North, New Zealand (+64 6 357 9245)

Does anyone know of/have a program which can simply just print the 
documents, without having to load up the editor and everything.

It would need to load the fonts and graphics, but should improve the 
speed and memory usage as there would be no need to calculate the 
on-screen version.

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From: lionel@cs.city.ac.uk (Lionel Tun)
Subject: Re: Wordworth 2 preview (long)
Organization: City University, London
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 92 13:57:38 GMT

In article <1992Nov19.182018.26089@spartan.ac.BrockU.CA> tmc@spartan.ac.BrockU.CA (Tim Ciceran) writes:
>In article <1992Nov19.114518.3048@city.cs> lionel@cs.city.ac.uk (Lionel Tun)
>writes:
>
>>Postscript is supported and you can have EPS (encapsulated
>>post script) images.
>
>Terrific. How do you place these EPS graphics in the document?  
>Are you able to preview them?

I think the preview is an approximation rather than full colour.

>>Pictures: you can have hot links, cool links and no links.
>
>How are these distinguished from one another? 

Hot: Keep image on disk, update document when image is changed.
Cool: Keep image on disk.
No: Incorporate image into the document.

>>WordPerfect 5.1 (MSDOS)
>>   Opening and saving: Text, type style, foreign characters, 
>>   indents information, and page breaks are maintained.
>>   Typefaces and graphics are discarded   
>
>Will it then retain characters from the PC extended character set? 
>(eg. line drawing)

Dunno, but there seems to be much mention of various IBM PC fonts.

>>The manual seems to be clear and well written, and covers
>>a great deal. It is 350 pages. You have to install the program
>>from 6 floppies. It has Collins English dictionary and thesaurus
>>with hyphenation. You need at least 1.5M ram, and a 2nd drive of
>>some sort. Works with WB 1.3, 2 and 3.
>
>How does the interface look? (at least from the manual)

Seems to be very good. I very much like the v1.1 interface, so I
imagine v2 is even better. For example you can set up screen colours,
and the dozen or so supplied examples are interesting and useful.

>
>>I rang Digita yesterday as I had not yet received it. Apparently
>>they were literally inundated with orders for the new version, on
>>special offer at #59 pounds.
>
>Encouraging news. It would be nice to know if they plan any distribution 
>for North America.

There is a demo version of Wordworth 2 on this months Amiga Format
coverdisk (one of the coverdisks - the other coverdisk contains
Scribble!). There is a credit to Agfa for allowing use of the
CG Palatio font for the demo. Prices are #129 normal, #50 upgrade
from v1.1, #60 upgrade from any old Amiga wp (special offer).



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From: kev@dsbc.icl.co.uk (Kevin Walsh)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: Re: Amiga 1200
Date: 19 Nov 92 16:04:38 GMT
Organization: Cursor Software Limited, London, England

In article <1992Nov18.191527.24920@decuac.dec.com> bell@ufp.enet.dec.com () writes:
> 
> In article <1992Nov18.171302.19902@mercury.ncat.edu>,
> jdross@mercury.ncat.edu writes:
> 
> `Anyone know anything about the 1200?  I heard that its supposed to be
> `like the 4000 but slower and without the IBM bridgeboard...  
> `
> `         -jdross@garfield.ncat.edu
> 
> 
> Hard to believe.  Someone who a) must have just started on this
> newsgroup, b) doesn't know how to look backwards for topics about what
> he/she wanted to know, and c) somehow thinks that the 4000 comes with a
> bridgeboard.
> 
> It is too bad that newsgroups can't have any more organization.  
> 
> If they were organized by topic, you'd have to have a central database or LOTS
> of redundant information...kind of cost-prohibitive.
>
> Oh well.
> 
> Mike - disclaimer
>
I think a simple "no I don't" would be more helpful than flaming the guy.
Don't you, Mr. Disclaimer.  It was a simple request for help.

The comment about the Bridgeboard got me wondering as well :-)

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From: soft-logik@cup.portal.com (Kevin W Davidson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: Re: Is there a New Pagestream comming out?
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 92 16:03:18 PST
Organization: The Portal System (TM)

>In a message dated Mon 16 Nov 92  1:14, Soft-Logik@cup.portal.com (kevin W
>wrote:
>
> SLW> No major update of PageStream has been announced. There's nothing
> SLW> about to come out, so I suggest you buy now and start enjoying
>yourself.
>
>Still there are so many things that need to be polished!

Soft-Logik continually improves their products. I didn't mean to suggest
that there will never be any more improvements to PageStream. FAR FROM IT. 
I was just saying that a new version is not about to be released and that
it is not a good idea to hold off on a purchase for that reason at this time.

>Anyhow you guys leave a pretty dirty screen after any kind of change! 

Well some folks complained about the frequency of screen refreshes (sigh). 
You can force a screen redraw by hitting ESC U or clicking on a scroll bar.

> And if you modify something in the text, like fron normal on to shadow, 
>the change doesn't appear until you click off the box that you edit, 
>and then click on it again.  That REALLY needs to be addressed!

This refers to the fact that the Check Marks showing Style Options in the
menus only appear after you click on the text. This is on the list for
improvement. However, if you use PageStream much at all, you'll never
look at that menu anyhow, but rather use the keyboard equivalents for the 
text styles.

>
>Plus there would be some more additions... anyhow I'll address them to you
>on a later date after I got more involved with the soft.

Suggestions are always welcome.


Kevin Davidson, Asst. Moderator AmigaZone Vendor Support - PORTAL
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
From: taa33@isuvax.iastate.edu (Devin E. Parsons)
Subject: FCII support!
Reply-To: taa33@isuvax.iastate.edu
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 00:49:48 GMT

I just wanted to post a noet about Soft-Wood's support of FCII.

My copy would not print out in draft mode, so I called the support line and
told the man my problem.  He asked for the date the program was compiled and
then said SoftWood was SORRY they had made an error in the software!!!  They
would ship a new, working copy out right away and at no charge!!!  

He asked for my name, said it was on file and again said he was sorry for
the problem I was having!!!

That is how all companies should handle problems with hardware and software,
but it is, of course, not the rule but the exception.

Three cheeres for SoftWood...I will buy anything they write if I have ANY use
for it at all...FCII is a really great product!!!

No I don't work for them, but I just wanted to POST about this really good
company.
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From: peter@sdf.lonestar.org (Hoang Tran)
Subject: Re: IS XPK SAFE?
Organization: Best lil' ol' Pubnix in Texas
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 06:35:19 GMT

In article <1992Nov15.194207.7894@neptune.inf.ethz.ch> umueller@iiic.ethz.ch (Urban Dominik Mueller) writes:
>
>No reports of data loss because of XPK bugs have reached me so far. In
>case it happens to anyone out there, please report immediately as to
>save others from suffering the same problem. Of course there are imminent
>problems with storing files in packed format: A single corrupted bit
>will usually trash the whole files.

One thing about using XPH is I sometimes my file get corrupt when I download
to the automatic compress parition if I turn FILE SAVER on in JR-Comm.
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
From: pcrayne@halcyon.com (Peter C. Crayne)
Subject: Re: CD Roms readable on a PC ?
Organization: The 23:00 News and Mail Service
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 00:12:41 GMT

In article <jechawke.722092383@unix2.tcd.ie> jechawke@unix2.tcd.ie (Lone Rider) writes:
>Does anyone know if I can read a CD-Rom for the Amiga (eg FISH disks)
>on an IBM PC ? (the PC has a Soundblaster Pro CD-Rom drive)

I know somebody with exactly the same setup who tried it. Basically, you
can read the disk just fine, but ms-dog's file system pukes on the
filenames. It can only handle 11 characters (8 in the name and 3 in the
extention), and no spaces. f you could run an operating system on the
ms-dog machine that could cope with the filenames, it would probably
work.
Perhaps OS/2??

-Pete (If you get it to work, lem me know).
pcrayne@halcyon.com
"There's another side of heaven, This way-To technical paradise." 
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From: jonathan@cats.ucsc.edu (Jonathan Cano)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications,gnu.emacs.help
Subject: Amiga GnuEmacs 18.58 -- where can I get it?
Date: 16 Nov 1992 22:07:15 GMT
Organization: University of California, Santa Cruz
NNTP-Posting-Host: si.ucsc.edu


Speaking of emacs - where can I get it?  I recently switched
over to using emacs at work and now I can't use my old amiga
editors --> 40 hours a week of typing in emacs vs. 1-2 hours
of using an editor on my amiga (usually less that that actually)
and I can't remember the QED (my old editor) commands ...

--Jonathan

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From: mcgowen@cse.ucsc.edu (Richard McGowen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: Re: FCII support!
Date: 19 Nov 1992 02:31:24 GMT
Organization: University of California, Santa Cruz (CE/CIS Boards)
NNTP-Posting-Host: arapaho.ucsc.edu

Unfortunately, their tech support has actually gone down hill.  I have
the older version of FCII that crashes and they did not send me a new
version.  I am sure that they will if I call. I just find it
discouraging because with FCI, they sent out a fix to all customers that
had a buggy version.  (I have had Final Copy since the version that
crashed on TABs when printing)  It is disappointing to me that they know
that there are customers out there that have a buggy version, and in the
case of people like me who upgraded, they know who some of these people
are.  It just bums me out that they don't care enough to send those of
us who have the older version new copies unless we call them.  Their
tech support is still good, just not as good as it was.  

I worry that the money bug has gotten ahold of them.

Richard
From: jfriesne@sdcc13.ucsd.edu (Jeremy Friesner!)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: Graphics printing from CLI
Date: 23 Nov 92 00:10:11 GMT
Organization: University of California, San Diego

Can anyone tell me where I can find a utility that
lets me print an IFF and/or GIF graphic from within
a script?

i.e.   graphicprint filename

Thanks,

Jeremy
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From: sirvent@boole (SIRVENT xavier)
Subject: Help needed about 4 exec functions called: rawdofmt, raw..., getcc
Summary: Exec functions
Keywords: xavier
Organization: University of Grenoble (France)
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 16:43:47 GMT




Hello world, it'is my first message i send in the world. Well, i have some
problem is assembler to convert a data register in his writing value in ascii.
For example, i want to transform d0 with the value $ff in the string "255"
I think it is possible with the exec's function rawdofmt but i have no 
explanation about it and about the tree other functions that look like this one
Can somebody send me the mean to use these functions.

P.S 
   Thank you for any response!
P.P.S
   Don't care of my english, it is awful.......

Friendly...



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From: jmarin@messi.uku.fi (Jukka Marin)
Subject: Re: amiga spreadsheat reading lotus 123 files
Date: 21 Nov 92 20:04:32 GMT
Organization: University of Kuopio, Finland

Gary_Coleman@mindlink.bc.ca (Gary Coleman) writes:

>I've had some success us8ing Gold disk's professional Calc.  You do have to
>resize all the columns.  I am having a b*tch of a time with some of the
>functions though.  If I use the string functions, I get LOW MEMORY in
>ProCalc's dialogue box.  Kind of strange in that I have 2 megs chip and 8
>fast in my A3000.  I did try setting the stack higher...

Yeah, I have the same problem and I have FAXed about this to Gold Disk..
Hope they will fix the string functions.  On my system, they seem to
corrupt the free memory lists -> crash..  So the string functions are
currently totally unusable.

Otherwise, ProCalc isn't really that bad..

  Jukka Marin

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From: efp90@ecs.soton.ac.uk (Pritchard EF)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: Re: A1200
Date: 23 Nov 92 17:03:55 GMT

In <1992Nov17.054911.1372@sol.cs.wmich.edu> 22black@sol.cs.wmich.edu (Martin Black) writes:

>ma90gjp@cen.ex.ac.uk writes:

>>I've just seen a review of the amiga 1200 in Amiga Format, and am seriously
>>considering upgrading from my A500. I also have a GVP hard drive, is there 
>>any way to connect it up to a A1200, or if not will there be any hard drives
>>coming out for the new machine.
>>Also, will my midi interface and my second disk drive work on it? 

>Well there is an ide controller built in all a1200, of course that means you 
>can't use your scsi drive, and there aren't any connectors that would accept
>gvp hard drive side slot.  But there is a bottom slot with a knock out panel
>in the back of the a1200 that can be used to add 4mb of 32bit mem, and a 
>scsi controller, in which the scsi connector would go to the knock out panel.
>Yet such a beast hasn't been released yet.  And you would have to get an 
>external case for your scsi drives.  As for your midi and second drive they
>will work fine.  And there is one more expansion that comes with the a1200.
>That is a pcmcia slot, which can be used for memory for starters, but I have
>seen modems and even an ethernet cards that have been made for pc's.  I am 
>not positive those will work but it should.  I have convinced my parents to 
>buy an a1200 for my little brother.  And myself I am waiting until I raise 
>the money for an a4000.

Just get a 2.5" IDE hard drive, and stick it in the space provided... I
just got mine today, took me 5 Mins to install (even though the Install3.0
disk I had was corrupted: I forgot to run SetUpHD first, and a write to the 
disk corrupted the free sectors <sigh>), and it really flys! 5 seconds
to boot up (once the system checks itself) and a power whine to put a 
Porsche to shame!


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From: thly@pe.chalmers.se (Thomas Lydhig)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: Re: PageStream 2.21 questions!
Date: 16 Nov 92 19:56:53 GMT
Organization: Chalmers University of Technology

EPSF stands for ENCAPSULATED POST SCRIPT FORMAT/FILE that means beside postscript
there are a bitmap included to make it possible to have fast viewing of EPSF in
DTP type program. PageMaker can do it and Amiga owner (me too) use to compare 
capabilities to the MS-DOS and Mac worlds. If it 's not possible to show EPSF on
screen, it should be possible to print out (on non postscript printer)!
I _LOVE_ PageStream but I _MISS_ this together with ZapfDingbats and ZapfChancery.

/ Thomas Lydhig
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From: jsg@ccs.northeastern.edu (Jonas S Green)
Subject: Re: Startup problems?
Organization: College of CS, Northeastern U
Date: Sun, 22 Nov 1992 23:37:04 GMT

In article <Mf3KgJC00UhWA5oQUO@andrew.cmu.edu> "Alex R.N. Wetmore" <aw2t+@andrew.cmu.edu> writes:
>Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.amiga.applications: 19-Nov-92 Re: Startup
>problems? by Mark 'Mark' Sachs@psuvm. 
>> Let me just interrupt here and say that now, November 1992, there is no
>> excuse for anyone to be running that weak, pathetic operating system,
>> AmigaDOS 1.3.

Several of the Cable TV stations in my area use Amigas. They are utiling 1.2 /
1.3 on the machines broadcasting their slides. They have no reason to upgrade
thode machines to 2.04 / 2.05 / 2.1

Boston Museum of Science has a few Amigas in it's collection of stuff, they
have no reason to upgrade those machines. 

Of course in both cases, you could say they are not running the operating
system, they are running Application programs.
From: perley@galaxy.crd.ge.com (Donald P Perley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: Re: Word processor with equation layout support?
Date: 22 Nov 92 20:44:30 GMT
	<1992Nov22.133022.19351@sarah.albany.edu>
Organization: GE Corp. R & D, Schenectady, NY 12345

In article <1992Nov22.133022.19351@sarah.albany.edu> hibrown@sarah.albany.edu (Herb Brown) writes:


   In article <1992Nov21.220047.3300@nic.csu.net> vpopesc@opus.uucp (Valentin Popescu) writes:
   >Is there an amiga wordprocessor (WYSIWYG, NOT TeX), that supports
   >equation layout? (such as FrameMaker, etc)? I looked at FinalCopy in a

   You are absolutely correct. Final Copy does not support mathematical
   equations and should if it's to become a useful addition to the Amiga
   software library. A word processor with support for writing mathematics 
   is desperately needed for the Amiga. There are multitudes of students
   who do not know TeX and do not have the time to learn TeX but need such
   a pgm.  Are you listening FC? ProWrite? Whoever comes up with it first
   stands to make a bundle of moola!!!

   Herb

I am pretty sure Herb is familiar with Maple.  Does Maple have the
option of outputting formulae in postscript which could be included
as a graphic by another program?  I have seen someone's setup on a
Mac where they have a separate program for equation editing then
cut and paste into their WP program.

-don perley
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From: fgd3@nifty.UUCP (Fabbian G. Dufoe, III)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: Re: CD Roms readable on a PC ?
Distribution: world
Date: 19 Nov 92 18:23:58 EST
Organization: Fabbian G. Dufoe, III

In article <jechawke.722092383@unix2.tcd.ie> jechawke@unix2.tcd.ie (Lone Rider) writes:
>Does anyone know if I can read a CD-Rom for the Amiga (eg FISH disks)
>on an IBM PC ? (the PC has a Soundblaster Pro CD-Rom drive)
>I can't afford to buy a CD-ROM drive for the Amiga, so I figured
>maybe it would be possible to stick the CD into the PC's CD-Rom
>drive and copy the files I want to an 800k 3.5" and then use
>dod2dos or similar to read them on the Amiga.

   It should work, unless the CD-ROM uses some special extensions to the
file system (I don't think the Fish disks do).  But you'll only get 720K on
the floppy disks you put in the PC, not 800K.

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From: kjohnson@csugrad.cs.vt.edu (Keefer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: Re: amiga spreadsheat reading lotus 123 files
Date: 17 Nov 92 19:09:08 GMT
Organization: VA Tech CS Dept., Blacksburg, VA, USA

I believe that ProCalc will load/write 123 files...  Have no idea to what
version or how well it does it or anything.  It DEFINITELY can't handle 3.x
series worksheets, at least I'm pretty sure since I don't think itself does 
3-d spreadsheets.  Well, in that case, it can probably handle non-3-d 3.x
worksheets.

keefer
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