@PAL JUST = DEL-SPAC.ARC DEL-SP.EXE has been designed to allow deleting of leading and/or trailing spaces in ASCII text files. Great for pre-import to Ventura Publisher! @ARTICLE PAL = @ARTICLE PAL = STYLIST.ARC contains the Ventura Publisher<190> utility product StyList<189> along with a twenty page manual in Ventura Publisher 1.1 or 2.0 format. StyList is an interactive, window based program that displays and edits style sheet files directly. Tags are shown in a summary window. When selected for editing, major tag attributes can be changed quickly and saved back to the original style sheet. StyList can eliminate long waits for pull-down menus and screen refreshes in Ventura Publisher. Both mouse and cursor oriented screen navigation are provided. StyList automatically detects the type of video card in use and works with style sheets from either version 1.1 or 2.0 of Ventura Publisher. (See the detailed review of StyList on page 6) @ARTICLE PAL = @ARTICLE PAL = MEMO10.ARC MEMO will accept a standard ASCII text file or a WordStar file with no control codes and print it out as a noticeable memo. The memo will appear on a PostScript device connected to LPT1:. The first thing that makes memos generated with this program noticeable is the word ``MEMO'' at the top of the page in huge letters with a PostScript fountain running through them. The next thing which is fairly obvious about such a memo is that the first few lines are printed in large bold type... typically, this will say who the memo is going to, where it came from, what it's about and the date. You can optionally have a box drawn around each page. Multiple page memos are printed without the huge MEMO header at the top of the subsequent pages, but you can specify a heading for these pages. You can have your memos automatically date stamped. You can have the word ``CONFIDENTIAL'' appear across your memo. @ARTICLE PAL = @ARTICLE PAL = PIC300.ARC Pic-Edit Version 3.00 is a software product that is designed to allow you to enhance or modify graphs produced by Lotus 1-2-3 or Symphony, or other programs which generate PIC files, such as Quattro by Borland International. With Pic-Edit, you can perform all of the following: Add error bars to a graph, Delete cross-hatching from bar graphs, Join together several graphs, Overlay all or parts of one graph on top of another, Make pie graphs with all or some of the pie slices in solid colors, Rotate bar graphs to produce horizontal bar charts, Change the symbol shape or size on line or X-Y graphs, Convert simple text files to PIC files, to allow production of labels, signs, etc, Edit individual parts of a graph, giving complete control as to the size, color, or position of elements of the graph. New items can be added, or undesired items can be deleted, Run the Lotus spreadsheet or PrintGraph directly from Pic-Edit, Convert a PIC file into PostScript format. The graphs that you enhance can be printed with the Lotus PrintGraph program, printed on a PostScript printer, or they can be used in other programs which read PIC files, such as Lotus Manuscript, Aldus Pagemaker, Xerox Ventura Publisher, and others. @ARTICLE PAL = PICEM19B.ARC PICEM is a general purpose picture view program which also allows you to adjust the brightness and contrast in your pictures and save them back out. PICEM works with: .PIC images are PC Paint and PICTOR images. .PCX images are PC Paintbrush format images. .GIF images are Graphics Interchange Format, a generalized picture format supported by Compuserve. @ARTICLE PAL = @ARTICLE PAL = WPDRAW.ARC This is the first draft of what should eventually be good viewer. It currently does not support every Word Perfect graphic file function, but works with all bitmap and all the vector files included with WP. Graphics text is not supported but all other major functions are. Wpdraw was tested on Hercules but should work on a CGA/EGA/VGA as well, the colours might look odd. @ARTICLE PAL = @ARTICLE PAL = SCOOP20.ARC Scoop version 2.0 - MACSCOOP - MacPaint reader. GEMSCOOP - GEM/IMG paint file reader. Recent improvements: version 2.0: really slick file finder, supports subdirectories. Scoop allows people with PCs to look at MacPaint or GEM/IMG pictures, depending on which Scoop you're using. This isn't all that exciting, actually, as there are lots of programs which will do this. The things which make Scoop unspeakably, cosmically slick are: Machine language modules to unpack the pictures. More machine language modules to stuff the pictures into the screen. Automatic video card detection. Built in printer support for HP LaserJet+ in four resolution modes, PostScript devices and Epson FX-80. Automatic file extension modification. Help screens 'n' stuff. @ARTICLE PAL = @ARTICLE PAL = GIF2WPG.ARC GIF2WPG V3.0 GIF -to- Word Perfect Graphics File Translator. The GIF2WPG program was created to allow graphics files created as GIF (Graphics Interchange Format) files to be used in Word Perfect documents. To do this, the program translates the GIF file into a WPG bit-mapped raster graphics file. In the process, GIF2WPG converts the GIF image's colors into shades of gray, which it tries to reproduce in the WPG image. @ARTICLE PAL = @ARTICLE PAL = TCAP10.ARC TCAP is a simple utility to capture text screens. However, it does so in a sort of weird way. The result of a TCAP screen capture is a GEM/IMG image file which looks like the text that was on the screen when you set the thing off. In other words, you get a graphic paint box file with your text painted on it. There's an actual reason for this, oddly enough. Desktop publishing programs... like the redoubtable Ventura... like to inhale graphic files and pour them into documents. They're less use with straight text screens, which, at best, they like to regard as text. TCAP allows you to include screen captures in your documents and have them actually look like screens. Aside from just capturing your screen as graphics, TCAP preserves the screen attributes as best it can. As such, if you snaffle a complex application screen, the picture that results from it will actually have all the bold, reverse and so on that was in the original. @ARTICLE PAL = VFM12.ARC VENTURA FONT MACHINE version 1.2. This program is a reasonably painless, menu driven front end to create width tables for LaserJet soft fonts used with Ventura Publisher. It's intended to drive Ventura when it's used with a Hewlett Packard LaserJet Plus compatible printer... it won't be any use with a PostScript device, and may have some troubles with JLaser boards and other oddities. @ARTICLE PAL = @ARTICLE PAL = FONTNAME.ARC Master Font File Renamer for First Publisher. Fontname is a short program written in Turbo Pascal 5.0 using Technojock Turbo Toolkit. The program has one simple purpose: easily accessing all possible FONT files available before entering First Publisher. As you know, First Publisher requires that one FONT be named MASTER.FNT. If you have several such files, you have awkwardly rename the original then rename the one you want. This program allows you to pick from the font files, select it and automatically have it renamed MASTER.FNT. @ARTICLE PAL = ALTRFT23.ARC ALTERFNT.COM v2.3a for HP Laserjet+Soft Fonts Purpose: (1) Extract image of a soft_font character into a file, (2) View|Change downloadable laser soft_font characters, (3) Put new|altered characters into a font, (4) Change Font Descriptor, (5) Insert new character numbers and character code in a font, (6) Convert Portrait font into Landscape font, (7) Copy ranges of characters from one font to another, (8) Delete ranges of characters from a font, (9) Download font [print Table showing characters & Widths], (10) Table character widths in a font to a file. Graphics Board Not Required. @ARTICLE PAL = @ARTICLE PAL = DIGIFONT.ARC Digi-Fonts FontMaker **Demo** This archive contains all the files on the DIGI-FONTS DEMO disk. DIGI-FONTS is a HP LaserJet font generator not entirely unlike SWFTE's GLYPHIX. From outlines it will generate to order any number of sizes, weights, slants, etc. This demo will generate and download fonts in these faces: a Palatino roman clone, a Palatino italic clone, a script clone, and a funky sans-serif clone like Geo or Bauhaus. On a scale of 10 where Bitstream is a 9.5 and the Glyphix fonts range between 5 and 8, these fonts appear to range between 6.5 and 8.5. The demo will not save font files for editing, but you can download to order for use indefinitely. I call that a pretty practical and generous demo! Obviously, DIGI-FONTS hopes that the quality of their fonts and the inconvenience of no files will induce you to pay their modest purchase price for the full program, which does save files to disk (where you can edit away any little flaws which bother you with a font editor). The basic generator is $69.95 and comes with 8 faces. They sell additional faces at $29.95 per disk of 8 or 10 faces, or a library of over 250 more faces for $350. <188>