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• 120 PURIM 0 , rd gets mit on the new plug in modules for PageStream 3 • • • • • • • • • • • e l l e n with the latest update l3:0h11 received this morning. I got the four new add-ons for PageStrearn. They are: Gary's Effects, a Jpeg filter, a Wordworth filter. and a font engine for TrueType fonts. These additional filters can be bought now from SoftLogik themselves for between $20 and $25, so get your credit card ready, Gary's Effects come on a single disk for installation into BME 2.0. They are a series of Effects modules that get added to BME's Effects menu and give you some of the more common operations required for desktop publishing. These include, but are not limited to, a user-editable convolution matrix, gamma correction, a histogram graph display 'which cannot be edited', control over hue and saturation and other such effects. It's a bit disappointing that there are none of the really useful DTP-oriented operators such as unsharp masking, or that most of the operators don't seem to work in a predictable fashion when applied to pictures in CMYK format. I can only hope that Gary's Effects evolves into something more like Kai's Power Tools over a period of time: Still, thanks to the new Jpeg filter, at least you can save pictures out from BME as Jpegs. amity RHIN There isn't very much to say about the Jpeg filter for PageStream. It does what it is supposed to and offers you a quality setting slider, but really talking about it is going to sound like one of those Ronseal product ads on the telly: So if you want a filter and you want it to be Jpeg, then get the Jpeg filter. It does exactly what it says in the doc s • Moving on to the third item in our add-on collection - the TrueType font engine. Again. there isn't very much to say about this plug in It allows you to use TrueType fonts in PageStream transparently, without needing to first convert them into Postscript format This opens the vast vista of CD-ROMs made for people with PCs and Windows (which r t S o m e o picture, blurre d, La pla cia n Edge (convolution), hue (•2 3 0 ), sola rize d, a n d t h r e s h o l d Plug in and print uses TrueTypesl. SoftLogik say in the documentation accompanying the add-on that the speed and quality of TrueTypes in PageStream is roughly equivalent to Postscript fonts. The only thing that would have been nice to see would have been PageStream taking advantage of some of those WinPrinters - printers optimised for Windows' use by having TrueTypes builtan• I'm not sure if this is actually feasible given the printing system in PageStream, so I don I suppose it's all that important. The last add-on seems to be a little underdeveloped. Although the WordWorth filter will import your WordWorth documents. it will only do so under fairly strict conditions. Because PageStream has no Text Effects or Tables feature, it won't be able to load in any of those nice layouts you have created in WordWorth using these features. PageSueam is also unable to load CGM graphics files like those used by WordWorth. so that option is right out too. PageStream's hyphenation method differs from WordWorth's so you might have problems there too, although not necessarily. Finally, there are two further problems that would appear to be in the process of being sorted out. The first is a problem with extreme type sues and the 'Loose' leading method and the other is a problem with picture aspect ratios. All in all, it doesn't sound as though the WordWorth filter is going to be much use for anything but the simplest layouts and as such. perhaps it should have been included with PageStream for nothing. or they should have at least waited until you could do a bit more with it, PapStrpam 010g1T55 After having spent some time with PageStream 3.0h_ I can definitely say that SoftLogik are pushing forward at a rapid rate towards a finished product Typing speed in the new version is vastly improved, particularly in long articles, although SoftLogik say it is still not as fast as they would like for v3.1. Also, you can now quit from the editors without them locking up PageStream at lasd I can't remember the number of times I hit Amiga S. Amiga 0 out of sheer habit': In addition, external graphics have finally been implemented and you can now revert to saved. Owners of nonPostscript printers should be pleased that printing has been sped up and that memory is no longer as important when it comes to printing Hyphenation, both soft and automatic, has now been incorporated and, at last, your cursor accurately represents where in a text article you are BME also gains two new effects - Emboss and Sharpen_ However, some of the more annoying niggles like PageStream's inability to copy, duplicate or transform a text box have still not been resolved, neither should you expect PageStream to be able to do colour separations for EPS files Of printing lone aspect which must surely limit PageStream's appeal for serious use. Perhaps this ought to be attended to before anything else'. Finally, in the readme file they mention release dates for both a Mac and Windows version of PageStream and promise full cross-platform compatibility, so lets hope that a) this doesn't mean that Amiga development slows down and b) Amiga users will finally have a hope of going to a printer with a PageStream file and not get laughed at Amiga Computing OCTOBER 1995
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