PowerPage is already the most popular DTP package on the CPC. Thanks to its appearance on an AA covertape. it has made its way into over 37.000 homes. True, just under half of those people will find it useless, but that's beside the point But what can be done to better an already excellent package? Well, the first thing would be to take out all the irritating disk overlays. Then, throw in a few extra features, you know, the ones that aren't possible with 64k machines. After that, why not make it compatible with ROMDOS ? Oh yes. while we're at it. what the he!, let's put in a pop-up menu(*) system, a pattern fill routine and a zoom mode, enlarge the cursor a little bit then increase the speed and user-friend^ness a tad. It's a tall order. So tall, in fact, that the spotty student behind the counter at Junk-food King would be very reluctant to say 'You got if when you make the request. Most of the functions within PowerPage are split up into five sub-menus. selected from the main menu bar. These are: - Text: Consists of Set margins. Headline layout and Text layout. The latter two involve flowing text around graphics with either normal sized text or Stop Press headline fonts.
- Block: Can only be selected when a rectangle has been defined on the page. This block can then be flipped on both axes, reversed, filled, wiped or saved as a clip art.
- Page: Print and Clear are self-explanatory. Up. Down. Top and Bottom simply move to different parts of the page (each page consists of 70 lines spread over three screens).
- File: Includes Load/Save Page, Load 8x8 Font. 16x16 Font and Clip Art. Select Drive, Erase File and Catalogue. Those that need these explaining should stop reading now.
- Settings: Includes Text Spacing, Line Spacing. Autoflow. Flow Style, Print Quality (there are eight print settings, of varying densities). Text/Headline Size, Text Style. These all affect the way the text appears on the screen
All in all. PowerPage 128 is the best DTP you will find on the CPC. Yes, better than Stop Press even. At last - Desktop Publishing without the masochism. AA
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Page créée en 691 millisecondes et consultée 2128 foisL'Amstrad CPC est une machine 8 bits à base d'un Z80 à 4MHz. Le premier de la gamme fut le CPC 464 en 1984, équipé d'un lecteur de cassettes intégré il se plaçait en concurrent du Commodore C64 beaucoup plus compliqué à utiliser et plus cher. Ce fut un réel succès et sorti cette même années le CPC 664 équipé d'un lecteur de disquettes trois pouces intégré. Sa vie fut de courte durée puisqu'en 1985 il fut remplacé par le CPC 6128 qui était plus compact, plus soigné et surtout qui avait 128Ko de RAM au lieu de 64Ko. |
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