Re: general ? on 2gs

[casa@unm.edu (Jim Pittman)]

Supertimer (supertimer@aol.com) said about AppleWorks GS:

> Subject: Re: general ? on 2gs     Date: 9 Aug 1998 06:47:29 GMT
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> I rather like the program myself. Frankly, the graphics module
> with its scalable graphics is unlike anything else I've used on the
> GS and the only thing appropriate for desktop publishing on a
> high resolution ink jet or laser printer. Other paint programs
> will result in jagged graphics on these printers, but not the
> scalable images produced by the AWGS graphics module.

Hmmmmm. For little tiny images in a mostly text document, I find
Platinum Paint plus GraphicWriter III do pretty well. Edit the
image in PP, Select it, Copy it, quit PP, load GWIII and open your
document, grab a graphic tool, then Paste. Then the image can be
scaled to 1/2 or 1/4 or any other size you fancy.

This is especially easy if you run Switch-it; then you can quickly
jump back and forth between PP and GWIII to edit and transfer images.

> The database is the best available for the IIGS and the desktop
> publishing module is quite speedy on an accelerated system.

I have AWGS but use it very little because (1) all the horror stories
about how crash-prone it is; (2) after using GWIII it seems quite
awkward and slow to me. Nevertheless, it must be useful to many
people: Joe Kohn continued (and as far as I know still continues) to
use it with Shareware Solutions II in preference to GWIII, and the
late lamented SoftDisk GS published a LOT of stuff in AWGS format.

As for HyperCard GS -- it seems to me to me intolerably slow even
on my modestly-accelerated (9 MHz Zip-GSX) systems. (But then I have
had little need for databases; AppleWorks 5.1 works fine for me.)

Just my ][ cents.

- Jim Pittman - AppleQuerque Computer Club - casa at unm dot edu