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The%ish List ef A Desktop Publisher

YGA Monitors ............................27

It is phenomenal how far desktop publishing technology has come in just a few short years. Equally phenomenal is the ability to quickly adapt it to our own usage, forget that it exists, and crave more innovation.

My ideal of desktop publishing is to be able to create an entire publication &om a desktop computer — true desktop publishing. In the process of doing Thc C0Inpstsr Peper, I have noticed that

A buyer's guide of things to consider when shopping for n VGA momtor.

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Hot Stuff for DTP .......................89 A Macintosh graphics conversion u6Tity and a new CDROM disk full of photoL by&ttstt SIIINI; Xbake

Imaeesetter Options...................41 Going lo Uno isn't what it used to be.

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DTP Service Bureaus ..................45 Imagesettets, OCR softwaxe, scanners, shde mahcrs — where you can rent them.

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DTP With The Atari ST ...............58 Law price, Mac Se PC compatibility make the ST worth laohttg at.

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Cutting and pasting in rea&me nonal mode is very much required. {Translation, we still use rulers, Kxacto knives and wax to p~ p t h e issue). When I started this pubfication three yaws ago, I thought it would only be a matter of months before all the minor problems that prevent total desktop publishing would be deaned up. It turns out we may have to wait a couple of more years before that is true.

One obstacle is the need for huge, cheap hard drives to store all the scanned image files that it will take to replace a PMT camera. Another shortfall is in the area of printerL My wish list has a low~ h g h teningfast tabloid printer that prints half<ones with very' little maintenance overhead. I want page layout sokware that has ad-management (complete with

a built' expert system and linear programming to optimize space usage and then automatically index a table of contents and an advertiser list).

Also needed in the softstare are the network tooh to manage theefforts of a workgroup. My Sultasy has me pushing a few' buttons and waiting for the publication to hry itself out. Another dick or two and it prints out readyfor

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Courtinl a New Climate .............21 New studies suggest STicon Valley may be a major culprit in CFC pollution. byDennis Httyes

This Mom|h Sack in the here and now, this month we tried out the latest efFerings e &om Microsok (Word for W ndows) WordPerfect Corp (WordPetfect 5.1), and Letraset (DesignStudio) Also in t¹is issue is an overview of the imagesetter options mailable today. We surveyed the service bureaus in town to give you an idea of where you can rent time on equipment to create your own desktop publishing revolution.

We give you an updated report on personal income tax software in time for tax filing season, and ~ ng ts ¹ u Climate, a disturbing article on CFC use in Silicon Valley. Special than' this month to Scott Lewis and Changing Images Productions, who did our cover on their Dicomed system.

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The Merits of DOS 4.9 In response to the Buyer's Guide Maw te Avoid a Leman,"January '90 issue, I would like to clear up the cfifferencesbeuveen the earfiter version of MS-DOS,

version 8 cl, and Microsoft's latest version, MSQOS 4.01.

Veraon 4.01 is currently being chslributed aad while MSQOS version 8,$ is a reliable and strcang disk operating system, N crosafit MSQOS 4.01 has significnnt eahancements that make it an equally attractive, if not supexior, product offering.

In addition teversion 4.01's reliabtTity, it does not require more memoxy te ran in thesiaadard configuxations. The large harddiskpartitionnadinstall procedure provide far abetter environment far lhe user. In order te pravide suppart far large chsk iia a s and other new fetatures in 4.01, the size of MS-

DOS in version 4.01 did increase over version 84, byabaut16K. MS.DOS 4.01, milshnsecenfiguxation,occupies VRKef

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LookAhead buffers ixayrave disk performance in sequential kikaccessapplications (word processing, for exttmple).

Faatapen code aad data te be stared in expanded memary. This benefits users in that it Sees up additional base memary fer applications.

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The MSQOS 4.01 perfarmance fecttures described here pravide the user with teals needed to tune his system for even betteroverall performance. The range of performance features aad tools provided fitr exceeds these provided in previous versions of MS-DOS, including

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8861 - computer professional personnel agency), CBM Consulting Inc. (662-7869 -accounting), and SCAdvanced Systems Institute (644-1926 - financing product development).

Next month's meeting will feature Icosta Cbatzipiios from Ogivar TechnologyInc., who will speakon the benefits o bundling software with harchvare. It will be held at The Hermitage Reslauran,t 115-1025 Robson Street.

For Bmnz infortnation on Sopcoaro BC, contact:682-2094.

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Computerize Your Sales Maztataement With 1he MczcinaassrTraining The Maximizer from Richmond Software has been a God~d for many sales andmarketingprofessionals. NowDrake Training is offering a course that kickstarls the learning curve on this great program. The Maximizer contact management software combines a database of names and addresses, a tickler file to provide reminders to call back contacts, an appointment calendar, a word processor designed priniarily for letter writing, a business calculator, a diary and a personal accounting section.

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P9 "hot LinLLE" the accountmg system general ledger to a IAytus 145 spreadsheet. The "hot Lmhng" sysecm OKers signiiicantadvanfagesover bothconventional report writer and the batch export" systemsofdatatransfertospreadsheeth The process of building the report is interactive, so the user is seeing what he is g at all times. As weLI, multiplegeneml ledgerscanbe accessed in the same spreadsheet in one step, malring it easy to do consolidations.

Finally, cells in the spreadsheet can be mapped directly to general ledger data items through column headings in the spreadsheet, so that producing reports for new time periods is as easy asediting a column heading and pressing the computer keyboard function key F9, which is used by I.otus 145 to recalculate.

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You may say that sounds like a split personality. We say it sounds like the new Altima One. Altima One can run MS-DOS and OS/2 with ease. Plus it features an impressive 80286microprocessor that speeds to a full 16MHz, without

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prevents this annoying and potentially costlyproblenL Theswitcb, calleda "DautShield," is provided with an adhesive mounting to Sx it on or close to the telephone jack. The phone is then plugged into the Data4hield which in turn is plugged into the wall jack With the Data4hield installed, itis impossible to use the phone when the line is "busy" with a Modem or Fax transmission in progress, and data interruptiaxrs are no longer a danger.

The Data4hicld switch requires no batteries and comes with a uvbtycar warranty. During the introduction to rhe market of this new device, the manutacurrcr offers a "xuoney back if not satis6cd"gustxantcc. The Data4hieldisprice at$25.

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The title aswellas thematerialwithin the are inaccurate. Miniscribe has fsled for Chapter 11 protection Rom its creditors, not bankruptcy. The Longmont, Colo. company continues to operate, sending

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Enter geBuddysystem. ThePCBuddy System bjy-Kanotech consists of a circuit board eudosed in a small box which allows you to atlach multiple keyboards and monitors toyour PC, XT,AT, or%6 computers. The PC Buddy System does not prsyvide multitasking operation, but rather acts as an eight-position switch to select which station has control of the computer. Indicators on the front panel of each station show whether the system is Bee or busy; a push button on the box allows an operator to take control of the computer when all other stations are inactive. Theremotesfationsareattached

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These machines were, Newsbyzes understands, in a state of readiness for Comdex Pall last November but were beki back for softApple Promises A Steady ware reasons. The machines are uow being Hand, Lou-End Mac readied for launch at Hannover next month.

CUPERTINO, CAUPORNIA, USA., 1990 CeBit '9Q promises to be an interesting FEB 1 (NB) — Apple Computer Chairman show with regard io the perennial Ataxi ST have ~

oper's ccmfemnce fs nuked with Motozola's Rmmal tmveilingof the RSMHz 68040mi~

Amiga NoIlcl Commodore Unveils New Amigas In Europe PARIS, FRANCE, 1990 FEB 07 (NB)Commodorecalleda topeeczetmeetmg with softxvszedevelopezsin Paxisfortodayto unveil new bazdwaze. AII auendees to the confere nce have been bound by non ~ osu x e agreements until the CeBit '90 fair in Hannover, West Germanynext month.

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C$RP00 and on LaserWriter printexs by as much as C$2P00.

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Trojan Horse Destroys Mac File Directories EDMONTON,ALBERTA 1990FEB9 (NB) — A Tmjan Hoxse pmgxamunder the name Mosaic has muck iwo Macintosh usexsin the Edmontion area,destxeying their Sledirectio. rieL One expert is calling the Tmjan "the most destructive that we've ever seen.

Peter JoBnston, senior analyst at the Uni-

tec virus expert Kareem Ismail tells Newsbytes that Symantec is not preparing a special update to SAM ao Sght this Tmjan.

Other major antiviral softw.ire producers axe known tobe examining this Tmjan Hoxse

pmgram, says Jeif Schuhnan, author of Virus Detective, and the company which makes

Vixex.

John Noxstad, author of Disinfectant, tells Newsbytes that he is not worhng on a new vexaon ao detect this Tmjan yet, because he believes it is confined ao the Edmonton, Canada area"

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Peters said the smgle-user version will sell for US$295in the Uniaed Statesand C$%5in

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JAN RS (NB) — Richmond Software plans ao begin shipping vexsion LOof The Maximizer the U.S., Australia and Euxope. Contacu on February RO.Theupgraded contactmanJanette Petexs, Richmond Soflware, 604499agement softwaxe will have a number of new RIRL featuxes for an increased price tag accoxdmg to company spokeswomanJaneue Peter Network Courier For OS /2 Among the enhancements inMaximizer R.O will be more reporting capabiTities, a built-in popup calculaaor, the ability so store more addresses, a real text editor and han-

dling of incoming telephone calla The localareaneiworkvexsionwill allow access aoother

And Macintosh VANCOUVER, B.C. 1990 JAN Sl (NS)Consumers Sofiware plans to show its Network Courier electronic mail soflwaxe run-

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Text handhng enhancements indude full word pmcessing capabilitieswithin the Story Editor, text mtation, point/izes in 0.1 point (pt] increments &om 4 pt ao 650 pt, and leading in O.l-pt incxementa There is im pmved controloverkerning, condensed and expanded text; an option of eleven language

dictionaries; and improved hyphenation controL

Enhancements in graphics han ' indude the ability to import color graptdcs, user selectable display mode for imported graphics, and the ability tio tie rules aud graphics to text with fun Sow chaxactexistica File management capalities have been

impmved by retaining links with original imported iles (aaxt and graphics) to enable

anaomaticor prompted updatingofelements within a document. Also new is the "book" feature which anaws the user ao link multiple different fmm a virus in that it does not Pagemaker documents (chaptexs) intio a repmduce by itself, Srst appeared on a local bulletin bosxd ~ The s ystem operaaor single publicauon. A standalone table genexaaor is also included with Pagemahv 4.0, downlosded the Sle ao test it, whexeupon it an indication of thirdyartypmductsaocome. promptly destroyed the dixectories of all The pmductwill ship in the second quarter available physicallyunlockedhard and floppy of 1990 ata price of US$795 (upgrade disks, induding the one on which it resided.

US$150), with PC Windows and OS/2 verThe attacked disks were then renamed, sions "ti o be announced." Recommended "Goachat" configuration is any 68080 Mac with hard Mostof the datawas recovered with a utiTity disk and RMBofRAM. Since July,1985,Aldus program, but the Sle names were lost. has shipped in excess of 400,000 copies of all Johnston tells Newsbytes such an occurrence versionsofPagemaker. Contact: Roger Gulrais like "cutting ofi' the spines, and page jani, Aldus, R06422-5500. numbers of all the books in your libxaxy, then throwing the remains in a garbage bag for you to sort out."

One other BBS subscriber is reported tio have sufiered the same fate after he downAtari Portfoho II loaded the pxogram Rom the same EdmonIn The Wings? ton Macintosh BBS. SUNMtVALF„CALlFORNIA, U.SA., 1990 There is a possibility that the Trojan proJAN 24 (NB) — According to the CPUNnax gram may alsohave originated on aboard in Cpafidcaaal weekl newsletter, available for the Seattle, Washington area, he says download ona growing number of US BBSs Johnston says two strains of the Tmjan (bulletin board services),Atari may be about program have been found, the one above, ao announce the Portfolio II, an 80286-based and one in a public domain pmgxam called ''Fontfinder." This one hasa trigger date oflO version of iis popular pocket PC machine.

Accoxdhtg ao the newsletter, the Portfolio's Februaxy, 1990. Before that date, the pm128Kmemoxy is likely ao be boosted tio 51RK gnm simply displays a list of the fonts and by replacing the 6RR56 chips with 62104L pointsizes in tbe System Sle. Itwas posted on "Suddenlyyou have 512K with no noticeable the board as part of a Stufiitt archive named power consumption increase," says the news"FontFinderait." letter. "Could these be the reasons why the 'This appeaxs to be the Sist dehbexately original device is on sale m discount houses desuucuvemaliciouscode that targets on the already'" the newsletter questionL Macinaosh," saysJohnston. Previous Trojans When Portfoliowas announced a year ago and viruses have wreaked havoc with the in the UK, Newsbytca noted that the maFinder or caused applications to crash, but chine's designers, DIP, said that future verthis one actually destroys data. sions of the Portfolio were in the pipeline.

There are vaxiousways in which the Trojan Horse program can be fought. One is with Atari, meanwhile, was licensed to produce the standaxti Portfolio. It seems logical ao VirusDetecuve, version 5.01 or later, a shareassume that Atari would also be able ao liware pmgxam which requires this string ao cense future editions of the machine as welL detect the current menace: Resouxce CODE Sources close to Ataxi UKsuggest that such and ID = 1 Sc Data 44656174685472616B. a dealisin the oÃng, with a Portfolio II being The Intercept pmgnun of Syxxlntec's SAM virus-Sghting application ia also capable of readied for launch this Spring. The CPU newswixe newsletter has the last word: "The detecting the Trojan during a disk scan butit answer is yeL Watch all the denials Sy until, will not destmy it. A user will be prompted that is, the actual deals hit the streets." Conwith a question as ao whether the pmgram tacu R F Maxiano, Tel: 904-788-8819. should be denied access to asysaexn;ayes will xeventthe efmm do n e . an -

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The OS/2 version of Network Couxier will b e released at the show and wills~ ppin g before the end of February, Consumers spokesman Michael Shandxick told Newsbytes. The Macintosh and Wmdowsvexsions are in beta testing and should be shipping m April, Shandxick added.

The softwsxe allows people using any of the operaung systexxNsupported to commum cate with any other user over a varieqr of comxuunicaiionslinks, Shandxickssid. Users will aho be able to send mail through Network Courier gateways to other electronic mail systems such as Professional OI6ce Sys.

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Fxuji Butt, president of the Canadian Asso. elation of Data, Professional Services and Software Oqlanizations (CADAPSO) in Ottawa,said much would depend on the government, the banks and the software mdustry. But, she said„we*re always for anything that might improve the 6nancing situation for small software 6rms in Canada.... We think it's fantastic that [Singham] has taken the initiative to put something together."

Gxaeme Hughes, president of the Information Technology Association of Canada (1TAC) in Toronto, also commended the initiative, saying itdesetves sexious auention.

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I8686FQI MOrrIS Feund Gmlty In Worm Trial SYRACUSE NEW YORK U S~ 1990 JAN 22 (NB) — Afteronlyafewhoursofde6tberation, the jury in the warm trip of Robert Tappan Morri, a 24.yearold foxmer Coxnell gxaduate sxudent, found Mr. Moxrisguiltyof'

He said any such program would need preMany of these 6rmsdo go bankrupt for vaxiousrea-

computer tampexing in the Internet computer networkcrash of November 1988.Mr. Morri, who has admitted creating and xeleasing thewoxmbutdenied thathe intended any harm, will return to couxt at anas yet unspeci6ed date to face sentencing.

Having been convictedof a felony under the 1986 federal computer Raud and abuse law, Robert Mortis, who continued worhng m the computer industxy hit w a iung tus trial,facesamaximumof6veyearsinjailand a$250,0006ne. He could also be ordered to

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sces," he said. But he suggested a pilot project xnight help detexmine the plan's viability.

Brian Farimg, chief of commerdal a6airs for the Canadian Bankers' Association, said his group hasreceived the proposal and is circulating it among its independent business committee. "It merits study," he said, "and it's on our agenda for early February."

Contacts: CADAPSO, 615-25IM524; ITAC, 41M98871Q;Canadian Bankers'~ tion , 4168624092; Stephen Binghaxn, Alias Research, 416-5624181.

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Contact: Michael Shandrick, Consumers S oftware, 6041 4 5 4 8 .

Promise Seen In Canadian Sof&rare Funchng Mea TORONTO, ONT. 1990 JAN 24 (NB)Cauadian computer industty and banking groups have reacted with cautious approval to a proposal for 6naucmg software reseaxch and development in this country.

The Phoenix progxaxn, laid out by Stephen Bingham, president of Toronto software

Corel Income Jumps OTIAWA, ONT. 1990 FEB 9 (NB) — Net mcome at Corel Systems, developer of the awaxkvvinningCoxeIDxawsotbvam,increased

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Corel has reported net income of C$2.9 million for the year ended Nov. SQ, 1989, up Rom C$169,401 in the previous year. Revenue, as previously reported in Newsbytes, dhnbed hxmn C$6.6 xnilhon to C$21.7 million.

developer Ahas Reseaxch, calls for govexnm ent~ tee d hank loans forstsxtup software developers. Sofuvare companies with

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Unix Wings Files For NeXT MENLOPARK,CALIFORNIA,U.SA.,1990 JAN 19 (NB) — Infonnix Sahware Inc. has released Wmgz, a graphic spreadslmet de signed to access data Sam lnf'onmx's OnLine database awhile using NeXT computer systemL

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Vernon of Unix. AIX also runs on the high end of the company's PS/2 line. In addition, the workstations are run on lour. power complimentaxy metal oxide semiconductor, or CMOS, chips — the same hndsof chips used in laptop computen. Two user interSLces were announced for the machine: AIXwindows Envlxtmment/6000, which is based on the Open SoSnraxe Foundation's Motif standard,andAIXNextstep Environment/6000,

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As it is, the industry could phase out most solvent CFC and methyl chloroform immediately, since watmendMetexgent (an industry standard process before the the move to CFCs) and ormge-pee~ d ~ o o d~ulp cleaners have existed for years. These clean at least as effectively as CFCL New approaches are emerging, mctudmg ones that ehminate the need for Cleani n. More would follow quicklywith a concerted efFort. With few exceptions, the industry is stalling, milking its illwonsidered mvestment in CFC processes behind a showcase endorsement of the Montreal ProtocoL We need, desperately, to stop using CFCs, methyl chloroform, and halons. A comprehensive two-year phase out of CFCs aud methyl chloroform with tech. nology transfer to developing countries is a good place to start. Skeptics should recall the overnight retooling af U.S. industry at the onset of World War II — as well as the twtpyear CFC propellent phaseout in 19'% (most aerosol Srms beat this deadlmewithmonths to spare).

The ban also could serve as a corrective toashallowanddangerousconven6onal wisdom: our presumed need foreverfaster processing technology. It' s time to ask ourselves which new secuxi6es tradingprograxn, whatenhancedmissileguidance system, and how many new automatic tellexsjus6fy our courtship ofNew Climate.

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Screenvs.IMsplay Adapter When you purchase the video part of your computer yen need two things: the monitor and the display adapter. The menitorisaboxthatlooksabitlikeaTV. Itissometixnesadledascreen or a CRT (CathodeRayTube).Thedisplayadapter is a card covered with electronic chips that fits inside your computer. Display adapters axesnmetixnescalled videocards orvideocentrellereardaThereare y ddferent types of menitoxs and many cards. You mustmake sure they maticL

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FxxedSrequency and multi4' requency Cheap, unusable monitors can he as VGA (Video Graphics Array) monitors coarse «s 81. The smaSer the number, come in two typeL colourand grayscale. the Sacrand dearer the image wlS be.

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The card conrnins 256K of its own RAM memory for holding the image.

Higher resolutions would require even more RAM. There is noway to add more RAM to a plain VGA card.

This card will only work with fixed &equency VGA or multiscan monitorsgrayscaleor colour, for example the$160 Samsung SM440 14e grayscale monitor or the $8'l5 Zenith ZCM-1490 colour flat screen monitor.

The Zenith flat screen monitor took my breath away when I flrst saw one at a computer show. The colour is so rich and sharp itlooks like a Cineplex Odeon movie theatre screen. However,the monitor can handle only VGA, not SUPER VGA. Don't look at one unless you can afford it You will be hooked.

SUPER VGA Itis diflicult to talkabout SUPERVG. IBM has notyetbuilta SUPERVGA card.

Thus there is nothing to copy. There is no standard.Every manufacturer went off in his own direction and built something that was the VGA plus a bit more.

What the bit more is, dMers with each manufacturer and with each modeli The programmers of the. world threw up their hands in disgust and said '%Sow can we possibly write prograxns that will workon hundxeds of differentmodelsof SUPER VGA cards, all with different features?u So they threw the job back into the laps of the makers of the Super VGA

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Mor~ xpensive SUPER VGA cards have higher resolution. 'Ikey can pxoduce more dots on your screen. A card with extra memory, e.g., 512K of RAM, can have flner resolution stiR-or more colours on the screen, Be waxnecL Granted, more dots and more colours looknicer. Howcrsrer, more dots mean the computer has to spend more time computing the colours for eachdot. Thisslowsdown theyainting.lf yoll wallt to play with the ultra-high resD Iutlon displays, e.g., 1024x'768, you will probably need a 25 MHz 80886 AT or

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ThepremiumSUPERVGAcardspaint the screen faster. {An aside for the purists: The VGAcard ispassive, so itis more accurate to say your CPU can paint the RAM.in the VGA card faster. Only very expensive video cards, beyond the scope of this article, do any drawing themselves.) You can take speed to silly extremes. If you want the fitstest possible card — the Video Seven V-RAM — you would pay $680. However, if you are cententwith a caxd just a tiny bit slower, the Video Seven 1024i, you would pay

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Shouldyou do likewise? First, consider ibat they are also the most expensive SUPER VGA cards. The only thing that counts is how well the card works with your software, not on some magazine's benchmark, or mine for that matter.

%VSA I lied a little when I said SUPER VGA has no standards. VESA, the Video Eiectronics Standards Association, has definedaSUPKRVGAsiandardfor480x640 with K6 colours and 800x600 with 16 colours.However, for the myriad other modes, you' re on your own. There are no ultra-high-resolution modes such as 1024x768. You cannot even count on a VESA-compliant board having all the VESA modes, since all the modes are optionaL

Monitors for Super VGA

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If your card can creatie modes higher thanyourmonitorcanhandle,youmust be careful never to use them. Unbeliev' able as it sounds, I have only seen one

What hnd ofmonitor do you need for SUPER VGA? It depends on what type of Lastsummer one of mycustomers and SUPER VGA card you have.

In theoxy, if you use an ordinary fixedI independenily tested eight difFerent frequency VGA monitor, it will work. brand-name SUPER VGA cards for However youmust be very careful never compatibility with a nuxnber of software to invoke any of the SUPER VGA modes packages induding Microsoft Word, or you could damage the monitor. In WordPerfectand some Hewlett-Packard practice, then, itwould be both wasteful prelpaxns. We found minor problems withnearlyevexycard,mostlyin grayscale and potentially dangerous to use this combination. handling. ~ Jo ~ and bu y your sojhrrare Fer SUPER VGA you need a multiPat and then text it oathe Super VCR eaxxI frequency monitor. This means a manitorsmartenough tobandle all the differbefoeeyoubuy! ent SUPER VGA modes. Each mode The two cards we liked best were the requires the electron gun to trace each ATI and Ihe Video Seven. Kent Qairk, and the author of a suite of VGA testing programs, told us his favourite card was the Video SesmaswelL Thatclincbed it.

The custiomer standardized on Video Seven for bis company.

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If u buy an ultra-high-resoluT hose dollar a~.~ m a h a v e o u tion caxd, make sure you get a xnoniter sucking in your breath a little. There are lowermost monitoxs, for example the $545 Samsllng Imtek 1455N multisaln Spht PerSOnahy gag~ colour monitorrated at 800x560. The If you were a pregraxnmer and your colours are still rich, but the images are j o b were to write sofbIrare to work on all not quite as shaxp, especially near tbe these differ!enf video cards induding ookat wh ite ges „f the screen'Ify the obsolete ones and the rare onesI did letter "A" on a screen you will see a notevenmention,imaginebowcrowded ghosting of three images, in red, green y ~ d~ ) would'be with e~pment to and blue, slightly misafigned. The conS~c tb ~ ~ ~ is ~ Yeumightlongforasinglecardwitha excellent near the centre, but mushy spbt Inxsonalp that one xninute could near the coxnera The letters are still pr e t end tobean MDAcardand the next quite legible, butifyou stare at such a a CCA card and the next a Hercules ' screen forsevens houa4 your eyes may gxaphics card. Such a card is the ATI

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Avoid any other sort of "enhanced" videocard I did notmention here. Itmay

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%hat to Cheose Forabasicwordprocessingoraccountingmachine, go for a Hercules graphics

done caid and a plain 14" Hat screen TTL monitor. If you plan to upgraiie later to fixnwolour gxaphics, you could get a SUPER VGA card with grayscale monitor. Grayscale will give text images almost as sharp.

If you plan to use your computer pri-

marily to run Microsoft Word 5, get a Hercules Plus card and a plain 14" fiat screen TTL monitor.

If you want to play games, ixy one of these three strategies: 1. Get a ames computer.

R.Gettaro cards — oneHerculesgxaphics donewith aphin 14" fiatscreen ITL monitor and one Hercules CGA card with the cheapest used RGB colour monitor you can find.

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colour monitor. Choose a lowest monitor if all you want to do is play gameL Choose anexpensive one ifyou want to do word processing as welL

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that will let you dabble with just about anything thatwillgiveyou f'reedom to try newprogxxixns, geta plain VGA card and good~uality fixed-frequency colour monitor.

If youare buying an 80%6 madnne and you want the ability to use programs such as Ventura, Windows, Presentation Manager, GEM, Autocad or other CAD progxaais in high resolution, consider SUPER VGA. Make sure your video card comes with a driver for the sofnvaxe you will be using or there is no point in

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Ifyou're aWoxdPerfectuserwhomade the upgrade kom version 4.R to 5.0, you might be understandably hesitant to

make the jump to 5.1. The 4.'R~5.0

transition was a xather rough one. So many things changed at once that some users found thenmlves pretty much at sea. Old features were found on new function keys,manyoidmacxoswouldn't work, and whole concepts had to be

relearned. And the little changes were often the most aggravating (like having to bit Alt-FS again — rather than just stxiking any key — to getoutof the View Codes screen).

The 5.&o-5.1 transition is much

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I that theyworkmore smootblyand more logically... the way they should have worked kom the outset. It's only when you start exploring the new bells and whistles that you' ll really notice the difference.

So, what does WordPexfect5.1 deliver?

Mouse Support Acommon complaintaboutWordPerfect was that you couldn't run it with a mouse. If you wanted xodent support, you had towrite your own driver,orbuy a third-party mouse driver like MouaePexfect. Both optionsbadproblema Most

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ing around in memory, anyway? The hoysatWordPerfectmusthaveheard the same complaints — or noticed MousePerfect's growing sales — because WP 5.1nawoEexsmousesupportanda8ashy system ofpuMown menus. (Tlxaakfixlly, they' ve le& all the normal function key commands in place for those of us who want to use a mouse only for moving the cursor aud blocking text.)

The mouse works in a nice intuitive manner. Reposition thecuxaoranywhere oa~eea hy moving the mouse aad droppmg'thecuxaorwith the leftmouse button. Block text hy holding down the left button and dragging the block over the text to be higblightecL Retrieve the last deletion by hitting the center button, and call upasystemof palMown menuswith the xight It'snowposxibleto perform almost all of WordPerfect's operations without remembering a function key code.

Tables Tables offer a powerful way of foxxnatting text or aumbers into rows and coluxnnsof information... xoifhostusmg the leaotbax~tuitive Parallel Columns and Maths functions. You can dynamically size the cells in your table (analogous to cells in a spreadsheet), change the liaes delineatmg the table, screen (shade) the background, etc., etc., etc. You can aho use foux fimction math, writi n formulae that identify values by their cell location (e.g., A4; shades of Lotus) rather than by text column position as in standard WP math. It becomes possible to turn a table into a xninispreadsheet.

WordPer fectalaol importinformation &om spreadsheets like Lotus, Excel and WordPerfect's own PlanPerfect. When you import the data, WP 5.1 automaticallyhuildsanappxopriate tabl tocontainit.Also, WP5. waxxn links": as figures change in the base spreadsheet, ihey aho change in the "baked WP table(arealboon toanyone involved in foxms generation).

Once you' ve created the table, editing the text aud figures within it is easy. AII the regular editing features work, and when you delete text you don't run the ris of having the rest of the table collapse into a seemingly randem series of . Hard Page breaks, as in Paxallel Col-

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The Computer Paper/march'OO a7 ~ okay, since most people just used it ao mail-merge mass maiTings). In 5.1, hour ever,merge has become a rudimentary progranuning language simile to WP's suacro language. It lets you name fields (so thatwhatused to be I'FI can now be HRST NAME;lots easier toundersland), assign values to variables, call subroutines, and generally develop very sophie. ticated merge strategies. (For example, you couldwriteamerge script thatwoul

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surpasses even the depth of text features found in Ventura Pubhsher 2.0 on the PC. Unfortunately, it also brings along some of the quirky interface problems thatwesawwithReady,Set,Gol, Letraset's earlier desktop pubhshing package. But DesignStndio brings some fascinating, if not revolutionary, additions to the desktop repertoire like fully rotated text and objects and a built-in spell checker.

See How It Runs The intedam and functionsare similar to XPresa To place text or an image on the layoutpage,you must firstdrawabox on the screen with the appropriate box tooL Ventura users would feel right at home. DesignStudio ofFexs some very ' sophisticated stylesheet capabilities, ~ which begin at the Ixrragraph level and can be applied down to even individual characters. What fellows is a listing of this product's more notable features, either by virtue of their functionality or uniqueness to desktop publishing.

The Hot Stuf'f This is a feature packed programl No

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'I+ographical Contmls Letter Pair Earning Tablesr Kerning is thespacebetween theletterLWhendone well, kerning makes for easier, quicker reading. The pregrrm is the first that I know of to ofFer useneditable, letter-pair kerning tables. No more tak~ a t ~ uget hser printer kexnmg.

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True Fractionst True &actions can be created with a fewkeystrokes — no sweat Place Text Within Geometric Shaptma Text can be placed into a variety of geometric shapes for some jazzy effects, though there's only 16 preset shapes.

VerticalJusti6catioiuAgreat feature that gives you a dean, professional text block by creating columns of equal length across the page.

Justified Tab SettingteAm I the only one who ever wanted to put tabs in justified text?

Auto Tracking Functions: Sophisticated,

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compensate for body text looking too broad at display point sizes.

Up To $27-Point Type: Fonts and leading can be selected up to 527.00 points, with an accuracy of selection to the hundredths and lines to a thousandths of an inch.

Free Rotation Of Texts And Objectta A great "&eels rotation tool for text and

objects that allows you to rotate individual, or grouped elements in a graband-

turn fashion, or &om a set point on the page. Editing rotated text is literally a snap — the text block rotates to the

horizontal, then springs back to it's previous position when you dick outside of the boundary.

Grid Alignment: This makes for good tightalignmentofallobjects to the "layout grid," which means consistent and appealing-looking pages.

Thumbnal Editingt Move pages, singly or as groups, in the thumbnail mode (though you lose your Imk" infodumb!)

Keyboard Shortcutsand Macioa: Great

keyboard shortcuts, induding macro-like capacity with glossaries (a sort of prearranged and auto-formatted dipboard of text or objects/graphics). You can pop in text or graphics like your logo or a standard phrase, et cetera, all in a few quick keystrokes.

Space Saving Files: Relatively small file sizes for large documents (154 pages, with text and graphics, was only '272K) Multiple Files Open At Oncet Tiled viewing of several concurrently opened files.

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Other Good Stuff Text search and replace (you can even hold the style information).

Virtual Memory: This capability makes for faster display of images, since they are not all competing for RAM. Macro-like Pasteboard: They call these "Glossaries" and they allow you to insert "boiler plate" textor graphics &om a list of: straight text, graphic files or

even these elements from other Designstudio~ files.

Font and Image Usage: An invaluable little function that tells you all the fonts and graphic images you have used in the document (which you can save and print out). This saves you time and agony over missing font drivers or forgotten TIFF image files when it's time to go to the service bureau For high-res. output).

To save time when proofing, DesignStudio allows you to suppress printing any image, such as the complex postscript or TIFF files that slow down your printer.

Custom Anowheadse Little things like being able to easily customize arrowheads online ends are wonderful.

Isocking Graphics and Text In Place: Finally, a means to keep things &om accidentally being bumped around. You

have the capability tolockindividual elements or groups of elements so they can't be deleted or altered.

Grouping Objects: Grouping elements objects together is possible, much as in a drawingprogram likeFreehand™ or Illustrator Tkt.

Printing To Dish If you print a PostScript fil to disk, in DesignStudio™ you can strip outunnecessary fontheaderinformation, saving yourself lots of disk space.

Color Supportt Color is supported in Designstudio~ in quite a bit of depth (though no +color separations in-pro. gram quiteyet). PICT 2 support for Mac D and above.

GreySeale Supportt Extraordinarilyfine Image Studio-like grey map controls for RIFF and TIFF images.

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bytekee forprogram operation so at or more megabyte machine is what is really needed. Larger documents result in sluggish performance when textwraps 8c complextmking are used ateven moderate levels Speech 'Ibis is not a speedy program, even on an SK/50. Text wrap and the text inserted into a geometric foxm slow the program enormously.

Interface: Interface is not immediately intui6ve (aplethoraofoptionsandpoorly implemented documentation make for a slower learning curve) .

The Cold Porridge Poor Manuah Findingadequate explana6onsordescrip6onsisarandom event.

Gmhxaing Iietnfaeex Intedace is laboriously complex and slow on some basic featurce, like image sizing and searchand-replace.

ApplyiugstyteceStylecharacteristics must be removed firs t before applying new ones. One step backwards, one step ahead makes for slow progress Ante 8owx The program suffers kom an awkmrdapproachtotheautomaticfiowing of text. In fact, itisnot really an auto ftcxw; it is more like: click, click, click, chckii • i

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Theydon'teven bother tolistone for the Linotronic 100 and without an LPD you can't get proper crop marks.

Myaterioua Bombixxg: The program mysteriously hangs, or produces blank screens and text that disappears when you place your cursor point on itlil This product has only been out for a month so it should have an imxninent upgrade that addresses these irritations which detract kom an otherwise excellent program.

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DesignStudio is ahned at the "Design Professional." If that is your direction, jump on the bus.

Ward Stirrat is a Graphic Designer, Artist and Photographer in Vancouver who makesextensive useofcomputers in the designandproduction ofartwork.

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Design Studio: A Second Opinion -ReadySetGrumble Jy Irah Ginsh With the release of DesignStudio, Letraset has gone beyond the boundaries of agood software upgrade policy.The look and feel of DesignStudio is vexy similar to thatof Ready,Set,Goi (RSG), a previous Letraset product. Anyone with aworkingknowledge ofRSGwill see that DesignStudiohas tobe regarded asamajor upgrade of RSG with an outrageous price xxlcf ease.

I purchased the original program for $195. Therebave been atleastfourmajor upgrades to RSG and each time they have cost between $100 and $5Nk That purchase was always motivated by the promise that at last, RSG would truly be a professional desktop publishing software package that could not only ccxxnpete with any other desktop publishing softwaxebuthavedis6nc6vefeatures that set it apart kom and above itscompetitors.

Because RSG was one of the vexy first programs purchased I for myMac, Ihave held a strange sense of loyalty to it even though the rest of the Macintosh community felt that it was an inferior package to its coxnpelitors. Since Letraset took over RSG kom its originator Manhattan Graphics, the program has steadily been getting hetter, though it still lagged behind in crucial areas. At the most recent version 4.5, I really an6cxpated therelease of version 5.0 where RSG would finaHy come to full maturity and be all that it has promised to be.

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Whatever happened to RSG as the "SNtest, easiest to use and most powerful desktop publishing package for the Macintosh. ( + cote kom RSG4$'s user manual) To be sure, LetrasetCanada offered a discount to RSG owners allowing them to purchase the Studio Line producis at halF of the introductory price. For DesignStudio thatmeans$595untilJan. Sl, 1990, and after that, $949. (I did not receive no6fication of this great deal until afterJan. Sl). That is a huge price for what I feel can best be described as a major upgrade.

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