Setting the perfect table
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A financial chart and a graphical chart, used as benchmarks, show Corel Corp's $595 Corel Ventura for Windows 5.0, Npath Software Inc's $279 Tableworks Plus for Macintosh QuarkXTention 2.0 and Frame Technology Corp's $895 FrameMaker 5.0 to be the most useful table-making tools of the six tested. Ventura is best suited for non-graphical tables such as financial tables, offering excellent control over border rules and text formats, style sheet efficiency and style override. However, it lacks the ability to export tables in a practical format and control interrow spacing and rules. Tableworks has strict cell boundaries and no thin and figure spaces, making it inappropriate for financial tables. Its best feature is its ability to add graphics to its cells. FrameMaker 5.0, is ideal for creating graphical tables. It easily performs clone table designs, has strong style-sheet orientation and can import tables into one another for complex grid structures. The test methodology used with the two benchmarks and the six table-making software programs illustrate the strengths and weaknesses of each program.
Publication Name: Publish
Subject: Publishing industry
ISSN: 0897-6007
Year: 1995
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Fontlab 3.0
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Pyrus North America's $399 FontLab 3.0 lets users create PostScript Type 1, TrueType and Multiple Master fonts and has superior hinting tools, especially for TrueType. It lets users replace embedded hint instructions in PostScript fonts, although PostScript uses a less sophisticated hinting scheme than TrueType; overlapping hints permit the creation of complex fonts. FontLab employs not only Diagonal and Serif hinting tools for TrueType but also a suite of such advanced tools as white-space control and Delta hints that specify resolution in pixels per em. It can automatically insert hints in TrueType fonts that noticeably improve font quality. The FontAudit tool examines drawings for errors such as open paths or lack of extrema points. FontLab's drawing tools are more difficult to use than those in the competing Fontographer package, and the undo function is excessive. The program needs to catch up with Fontographer in some areas, but is ahead in others.
Publication Name: Publish
Subject: Publishing industry
ISSN: 0897-6007
Year: 1998
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FrameMaker 5.0(Frame Technology's DTP software for Windows and Macintosh) (Software Review)(Evaluation)
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Frame Technology's $895 FrameMaker 5.0 offers both Windows and Macintosh users a new and improved product that is the top choice for Internet publishing. The enhanced package provides a much better interactive page layout for designing. Internet publishing can be performed via either Adobe's PDF or the Web's HTML. The new release offers Web publishers powerful cross-reference tools and hypertext linking. Documents can be saved as both HTML or PDF files. FrameMaker 5.0 shows a new system for frames that is more similar to other packages. FrameMaker's editorial features render the need for a separate word processor obsolete, performing even better than those packages.
Publication Name: Publish
Subject: Publishing industry
ISSN: 0897-6007
Year: 1995
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