Self-fulfilling forms

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Forms creation programs combine layout tools with intelligence features to create attractive documents and assist in processing the information. The programs fill out repetitive details like dates and invoice numbers, look up and print product names and prices from their serial numbers, and perform spreadsheet-like formulas. When using electronic forms for data entry the program passes on the information in the relevant database format. In designing forms, users are advised to keep the form simple, use a grid to structure the design, use numbered sections to guide readers through a sequence, use varied type sizes to distinguish classes of information, keep the form internally consistent, retain similarities between forms in a series, make the form understandable and readable, and use color coding to highlight or emphasize areas. Examples of forms created in FormBase 1.1, PerForm 2.0, and SmartForm are provided.

Design and construction, Business forms, Software Packages, Forms Management, Forms Design, Claris Corp., Delrina (US) Corp., SmartForm Designer (Forms generation software), Smartform Assistant (Data entry software), PerFORM 2.0 (Forms generation software), FormBase 1.1 (Forms generation software)

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Perfectly presentable

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Xerox Corp's Xerox Presents is a presentation software package capable of creating slides, charts, handouts and notes to enliven corporate meetings. The text handling and drawing tools are good and Xerox Presents' slide creation feature also displays gray-scale TIFF images on the terminal screen. The chart features are not up to the competition's. Different chart types cannot be integrated, minimums and maximums on the x and y axis cannot be specified, graph line patterns cannot be varied and more complex chart types are unavailable. Standard shapes and a freehand drawing tool can enhance charts, but the clip-art library is narrow. Image manipulation of scanned images is minimal. 200 templates for visuals are included as is a slide sorter. Xerox Presents costs $495 and requires an IBM PC AT or compatible, 640Kbytes of RAM, a hard disk, DOS 3.1, Microsoft Windows/286 or 386 and compatible graphics card.

Xerox Presents (Presentation software)

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Blinded by science: Xerox Graph

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Xerox Corp's $295 Xerox Graph is excellent as a scientific and engineering presentation program, but falls short in the business presentation category. Twelve different graph styles are offered along with the capacity for overlaying graphs. The user can control all the graph's basic aspects and choose from many color options. Xerox Graph has a 256-color palette and an uncomplicated select-and-fill process. Although these color features make it comparable to some of the top presentation graphics software packages, the program has very limited formatting controls. There are no grids, rulers, coordinates or snap-to options for customizing graphs. Compared to its competitors, Xerox Graph has a poor supply of drawing tools and is unable to generate ellipses, arcs or circles.

Color, Graphs, Xerox Graph (Computer graphics software)

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