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Wordworth for, or as tutorials that guide.
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help you quickly create faxes, memos,
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invoices, and even a basic Web page
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by entering details into text
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the Wizard will automatically create
the r document ready to be printed. II you
have some programming knowledge you
could alter the existing Wizards as they are
just ARexx scripts. Therefore, you could create
completely new Wizards or alter the look
of the documents the current Wizards create.
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A cheque printing Wizard has already
appeared on Aminet, so I would guess there
will be more in the future.
I was surprised that Wordworth does not
support the Amiga's Datatypes - as
Datastore does I was expecting Wordworth
to as well. This is not such a disadvantage as
there are a good number of supported formats,
With the usual IF support, induding
Ham and 24-bit images, Wordworth can
import CIF, PCX, Tiff and Img format images,
and all the major scalable image formats are
covered - CGM, EPS and GEM - with EPS
being the most important format of the
three.
As Datatypes currently only work in 8
there is a reason for using your own import
filters, but support of Datatypes on top
would allow you to import other formats not
supported by Digita's own import filters,
such as Jpeg - as all my pictures are Jpegs
this would be a helpful addition.
Some people may feel that the recommended
specification is a little high, but an
Al200 with a RAM expansion or accelerator
can easily handle complex documents, and if
you want the sort of power that Wordworth
provides then you need the hardware to
match. For people with a more restricted setup,
a 'lite' version of Wordworth 5 will be
released.
Having used this version of Wordworth for
a while I think it is a worthwhile investment
for owners of earlier versions. The style
sheets help greatly in document formatting,
and the extended graphics support improves
the end quality of your documents. There are
still differences between Wordworth and
Final Writer, primarily the lack of sections
and the ability to rotate graphics - both of
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which I think would be helpful additions to
Wordworth. The only other difference is the
grammar checker recently added to Final
Writer 4.
Version five of Wordworth is truly
excellent. All the speed problems of the
earlier versions have been addressed and
the program itself conforms very well to the
Amiga-style guides. In fact, Wordworth has
so many features, and apart from a few
minor improvements, I have a hard time
seeing where Digita can take it next. L:e
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