SnapPro and DoSnap: one good and one great utility for capturing Windows screens
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The $69.95 SnapPro software package from Window Painters Ltd and $69 DoSnap for Windows software package are, respectively, good and 'almost perfect' tools for capturing parts of a Windows display. Desktop publishers who produce documentation often find it necessary to capture parts of Windows images, but capturing such displays can be a very annoying task. SnapPro captures active windows or framed areas to the Windows Clipboard and includes the Image Control utility to preview and edit the image and the Image Builder to merge two or more images. The major drawback is that these tools are somewhat difficult to use. DoSnap can capture any active window, pull-down menu and dialog box, and includes a freehand tool for capturing any irregular section of anything on the Windows desktop. The software provides a Clipboard viewer that can preview, print or save the file.
Publication Name: Publish
Subject: Publishing industry
ISSN: 0897-6007
Year: 1992
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Renaissance: as a tool for designing pages, Renaissance is close to ideal
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The $895 Renaissance software package from Atex Inc is a near-ideal desktop publishing software package. Renaissance features a robust set of sophisticated typographic facilities, including text and headline tools to create text. The software also features innovative layout functions, including powerful alignment tools, strong element grouping tools, element and page models, row and column grids and ability to save page formats, sizes and grids as models and mix them together in single documents. Graphic tools include the usual range of rectangle and oval drawing functions plus a Bezier curve tool and regular closed polygon tool. Drawbacks include lack of automatic page-to-page linking of text blocks, no color separation facility and an inability of the alignment tool to distribute objects evenly across the page.
Publication Name: Publish
Subject: Publishing industry
ISSN: 0897-6007
Year: 1992
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Autodesk 3D Concepts: test your ideas in three dimensions with a low-cost Windows modeler
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The $249 Autodesk 3D Concepts software package from Autodesk features powerful computer-aided design (CAD) and 3D modeling functions but is more suitable for conceptual development and production of 'crude' vector-based images rather than photorealistic rendering. Specific features include separate tool palettes for drawing, sculpting, modeling and other major activities; numerical precision to six decimal places; light-source shading; hidden line removal; hole punching; Boolean subtraction; the ability to switch among six different perspectives; import of DXF files; and a library of predefined models. The models are mostly architectural components, mechanical assemblies and circuit chips. Drawbacks include a 'not particularly intuitive' user interface and lack of a sphere generating tool.
Publication Name: Publish
Subject: Publishing industry
ISSN: 0897-6007
Year: 1993
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