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Clip Art for all occasions. John Taylor delves into the latest offering from Goldmark Systems. There are times in your life when the old dull-cloloured letter paper just won't do. What about the time you wanted to impress your friends with some novelty business cards? They just didn't look right without that catchy logo did they? More importantly, what about that club fanzine you're writing? You know, the one you wanted to look really zappy with lots of pics to break up the boring minutes of the last meeting. life without clip art can be exceedingly drab and, faced with the prospect of having to design a new piece of artwork on your computer every time to want to illustrate something, it can be enough to put you off publishing for pleasure for good. Thankfully, however, Goldmark Systems has now come up with something which Goldmark's own Brian Barker describes as: " As far as the CPC is concerned, we think it is the best thing since sliced bread!" Well, try sticking a piece of soggy bread onto your notepaper and the result may be a little disappointing. Get hold of Golmark's new selection of Clip-Art however, and you'll see that Brian's claim is not very far at all from the truth. The Goldmark series runs to an incredible 37 different graphic libraries, every one containing over 50 separate pieces of dip-art for you to use with whatever utility you feel like. Goldmark has once and for all smashed that age old problem of plenty of program but no graphics samples and produced what must be the ultimate in terms of variety and quality. Lettering, symbols, signs, animals, people, vehicles, you name it, it's all here and all you need to do to get hold of it, is to gel hold of a catalogue, select which pieces you want and you're away. To assemble this daunting selection of artwork, Goldmark has been scouring public domain libraries the length and breadth of the Country, as a result of which, the actual clip art won't cost you a single penny. What Goldmark will charge for, and quite understandably so, is the cost of a disk, duplication, labour involved in duplicating and conversion and good old postage and packaging. What does all of that add up to? For just £12.00 in the UK, you get a whole library of 56 pieces of clip art. To help you save money and make the most from your purchase, each library is stored in compressed form, allowing up to eight libraries to be stored on one disk and for every additional library you want on that same disk, the charge is just £10. If you are worried about getting the artwork out of this compressed form and into the usual CPC 17K screen, don't. All you need to do is have a ready formatted disk with about 70K free to hand, then press COPY at the screen you require and follow on the screen prompts for speedy results. All in all, this little package should prove a godsend for serious CPC users and for the price, Goldmark should expect their mailbags to be swamped for months to come. Forthe full catalogue, just send£1.25 to Goldmark Systems and then sit back and luxuriate as you choose your favourite pieces. If Goldmark don't sell out of this little beauty very, very quickly, I for one (and the rest of the ACU team - Ed.) Will want to know why. For sheer size and quality, there's nothing to touch it. ACU #9012 |
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