Laserjet fonts bonanza

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The Font Factory's Fontmaker, Digifonts's Digi-Duit, and Atech Software's Publisher's Powerpak are three new contenders running against Bitstream's Fontware, the industry's Laserjet fonts software standard. Each program has distinct benefits. Fontmaker, for $94.95, offers the best-looking printer fonts, but the fonts quality and typeface selection is not quite as good as Fontware. But Selecting fonts and sizes from menu options is easy with Fontmaker. Digi-Duit has the best value compared to Fontware and the other two programs. The user gets the font generator and eight fonts for only $69.95. The entire library of 264 fonts can be bought for $349.95. Publisher's Powerpak, for $199.95, scales fonts at print time so that the user does not have to store bit maps on the hard disk in each font size that will be used. This program is ideal if disk space is limited, but the fonts are inferior.

Software, Desktop publishing software, Text processing software, Computer fonts, Lasers, Laser, Comparison, Software Selection, Product selection, Font Package, DTP Software, Digifonts Inc., Atech Software Inc., Font Factory, Digi-duit! (Computer font), FontMaker (Computer font), Publisher's Powerpak (Computer font)

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In top form: Smart Form Designer and Smart Form Assistant

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Smart Form Designer from Claris is an excellent forms program for either the IBM PC or the Apple Macintosh. Smart Form is made up of two parts: Smart Form Designer, the design application, and Smart Form Assistant, the data-entry application. Price is $399 for both or $49 for Smart Form Assistant alone. The program requires 1Mbyte of RAM, Finder 6.1, System 6.0 and two floppy disk drives. Smart Form is very easy to use and includes such outstanding features as layout and formatting, error checking and automatic calculation. Twelve form templates are included. An auxiliary page allows display of information that the user doesn't want printed on the final form. Smart Form allows the user to create custom help messages for each field, set up error messages and suggest choices for data entries.

Software Packages, Claris Corp., SmartForm Designer (Forms generation software), Smartform Assistant (Data entry software)

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Art for business sake

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Micrografx's Windows Draw ($299) is a graphics program with 1000 clip-out images and simple pull-down menus for PCs and compatibles with two floppy drives and a graphics cards. Windows Draw create images as objects rather than bit maps. Images can be scaled, sized, and rotated; and they can be printed on a broad range of output devices without losing clarity. Draw images consist of vectors, and take up a fraction of the memory space that bit-mapped images do. Windows Draw lets everyone feel like a graphics artist.

Graphics software, Windowing, Micrografx Inc., Windows Draw (Draw software)

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