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- Schlossborner Weg 7
- 61479 Glashuetten/Taunus
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- Tel: +49 61 74 / 96 61 00
- Fax: +49 61 74 / 96 61 01
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- Internet: amigawriter-support@haage-partner.com
- Homepage: http://www.haage-partner.com
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- Please install AmigaWriter on your harddisk. Open the english
- manual and read what is possible with AmigaWriter an where you
- can get the product and support.
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- AmigaWriter 2.0
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- The word processor that leaves a mark
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- AmigaWriter is the ideal program for pupils, students and engineers
- because it provides real footnotes and can even import Word
- documents from Windows PCs o Macintosh computers. On top of that
- AmigaWriter offers a refined chapter management system and can
- automatically create the table of contents for your documents.
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- Another first on the Amiga is AmigaWriter's ability to display anti-
- aliased TrueType fonts making even small text much more readable.
- AmigaWriter also offers a lot of functionality that is typically
- reserved for DTP packages: Boxes for text, graphics and various
- other objects can be placed freely, linked text boxes, freely
- editable page formats, flexible paragraph formats, automatic paragraph
- control, extensive font manipulation, freely definable paragraph and
- character formats and the ability to create booklet.
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- New features of version 2.0
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- - MSWord (tm) import
- - TrueType support with anti-aliasing
- - Font substitution
- - Support for AmigaOS 3.5
- - Booklet printing, landscape printing, tiled printing
- - True color printing even without a graphics board
- - fast black&white printing
- - 4-color optimized on ECS/AGA Amigas
- - improved image cache
- - many improvements and error corrections
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- More details on the new features
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- - Further features of AmigaWriter 2.0
- - WYSIWYG footnotes
- - automatic table of contents
- - multilingual hyphenation algorithm
- - Spellchecker with recommendations of alternatives
- - Document templates
- - Chapter management
- - extensive DTP functionality
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- What the press said
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- "AmigaWriter is up to this point the first and only Amiga word
- processor that features a footnote management which deserves to
- be called so." (AmigaSpecial 12/98) Excellent (Amiga Magazin 9/98)
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- System requirements
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- Amiga with 68030 CPU
- AmigaOS 3.x
- Hard drive
- CD-ROM drive
- at least 8 Mbytes of RAM
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- More details:
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- 1. MSWord Import
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- AmigaWriter 2.0 is able to import MSWord 8 (MSWord 95) documents.
- The following properties of the documents are supported:
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- a) The text itself including all umlauts and European special
- characters, but not Unicode (Japanese, etc.).
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- b) Paragraph formatting such as alignment (left, right, aligned,
- centered), indentation, tab stops, row distance, paragraph
- distance, etc.
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- c) Character formatting such as font, size, style (bold, italics,
- underlined, strikeout, small caps), color etc.
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- MSWord documents are automatically recognized and loaded, it is
- not necessary to call a special import command.
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- 2. TrueType Font Engine
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- AmigaWriter now features a TrueType font engine. This has a number
- of advantages over using the AmigaOS font engine:
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- a) On-screen anti-aliasing: For the first time it is possible
- to sensibly work with 8 or 10 point fonts on an Amiga computer.
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- b) Simple font installation: Any directory that contains TrueType
- font files can simply be added to the font path. No files in
- addition to the .ttf files are needed and there is no necessity
- for a separate font installation program.
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- 3. Font substitution
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- Especially in context with the MSWord import it is important that
- AmigaWriter allows for the substitution of unknown fonts with fonts
- available in the system. Every time AmigaWriter encounters a
- reference to a font that can not be found it opens a dialog window
- (with preview) for choosing a replacement font.
- The actual font name does not get lost in the document, the font
- is only substituted in the screen display.
- Font substitution also allows you to choose a different style
- (e.g. Helvetica Black is substituted with Triumvirate + Bold).
- The font substitution table is saved along with the program preferences.
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- 4. AmigaOS 3.5 Support
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- AmigaWriter supports all new features AmigaOS 3.5 offers for
- printer output:
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- a) You can choose one of the 10 printer units to easily switch
- e.g. between printer output, fax output and network printing.
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- b) Print margins can be obtained from the printer driver.
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- c) The user interface adapts itself to the driver and displays
- additional information on the selected print resolution, etc.
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- 5. Printing of booklets, landscape printing, tiled printing
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- AmigaWriter is now capable of printing on A4 pages or letter
- envelopes in landscape orientation.
- Booklet printing allows for the comfortable creation of booklets
- with double-sided printing (such as this one). When printing, two
- A5 pages are printed onto one sheet of A4 paper. In combination
- with double-sided printing all it takes is to crease the paper
- along the middle to obtain the finished booklet. The exact placement
- of the pages on the paper is handled entirely by AmigaWriter.
- Tiled printing enables you to print as many pages (e.g. 3 pages
- top-down, and 2 pages across) on a single sheet of paper, e.g.
- for printing business cards.
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- 6. True color printing even without graphics board
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- All image processing is performed without resorting to the
- AmigaOS graphics libraries or third party graphics drivers.
- This enables users who do not own a graphics board to perform
- true-color printing on any system with OS 3.5 and/or Turboprint.
- On OS 3.1 systems without graphics board there are still 4096
- colors available.
- This also eliminates the annoying background screen that up
- to know had to be opened during printer output.
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- 7. Very fast black&white printing
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- You can order AmigaWriter to perform all graphics processing in
- black&white only. This is very fast and memory-conserving.
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- 8. Faster output on ECS/AGA
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- AmigaWriter can be configured to utilize a special 4-color
- mode for all display operations. This results in only four
- colors (black, white, grey, blue) being used for all screen
- displays, even on screens with higher color depths (such as
- 256 colors). All images are displayed in black&white only.
- This mode gains a lot of speed on machines with a fast CPU
- (68060 or PPC) and AGA graphics.
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- 9. Improved image cache.
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- The original image data is held in a cache, eliminating the
- need for frequent reloads when scrolling text or printing
- the document.
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- 10. A lot more improvements have found their way into
- AmigaWriter 2.0
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- Among them are:
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- a) The AmigaWriter: assign is set automatically upon program
- start (if not already present).
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- b) The settings and document directories are created auto-
- matically if necessary.
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- c) The ASL requester for loading and saving documents acts
- a lot more sane and does not always return to the document
- directory.
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- d) Graphics glitches that occurred when scrolling and near boxes
- that were close to page borders have been corrected.
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- e) improved memory management
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- "The enclosed TrueType Fonts are (c) 1991-2000 SoftMaker GmbH
- and/or their licenser"
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