{fb1000000                 Tables

{fb10000ffW4W has considerable facilities for managing tables, unfortunately this is one area that is adversely affected by the Windows screen fonts not matching the printed fonts. Unless you happen to guess the correct zoom factor, the number of characters that fit into a cell of a table will be different on screen and printer. {fb1ff0000Impression is rather lacking in this area, but you can prepare tables using other programs (Tablemate) and drop them in.

{fb1000000            Mouse/Keyboard

{fb10000ffW4W can be operated conveniently on a mouseless machine. In fact many of the operations where you would expect to use a mouse, are very much more conveniently carried out by using weird combinations of keys. The use of the mouse is often rather unintuitive, causing different effects in what appear to be very similar circumstances. {fb1ff0000Impression requires a mouse. The use of the mouse is, as with most RiscOs applications, very intuitive. Hot keys are provided for common functions.

{fb1000000           Long term memory

{fb10000ffW4W remembers things about previous sessions. There is a quick way to open any of the last four documents that you edited in previous sessions. If you change something about the parameters of the spelling checker, then it will still be changed for subsequent sessions. This is useful most of the time, but if someone else uses your PC while you are on holiday you may need to reset all your preferences one by one. The preferences are held in all sorts of different submenus all over the place, so it can be tricky tracking them all down. {fb1ff0000Impression has a much smaller number of preferences that you can set up and save, but if you want to do something different you can change a preference without saving it. The preferences are all in one place, so if someone does change the settings deliberately, it's fairly easy to change them back.

{fb1000000              Overall

As far as I'm concerned, Impression beats Word for Windows on its home turf, word processing, but on top of that it's a world class DTP system as well.

If CC decide to develop a version of Impression for Windows it would be a world beater.

Does anyone know if it's possible to buy shares in CC?

Rating: 10/10

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Product: Impression Publisher

Price: 198.57

Availability: All Acorn 32-bit machines with 2Mb+ RAM

Contact: Computer Concepts (01442) 63933

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{fh2B03000Risc Disc V1
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{fb1000000The Risc Disc is a selection of PD, Shareware and commercial demos.  It is designed mainly for the Risc PC, but most, if not all the software will run on Risc OS 3.10 (except for Acorn's demo).

The CD Rom is supplied with a viewer type application, that was written specially for the Risc Disc.  All the files on the disc are compressed, allowing you to get extra value for your money.

There are hundreds of different programs, to keep you occupied for hours, and this is one CD that there really is something for everyone - from a software MPEG player (with example MPEG movies), to a utility that pops an Acorn logo neatly onto your pinboard!

There is a postscript to drawfile converter, Photo CD images, an alternative font manager, games, music editors, to name only a few.

I found that the viewer was helpful to get you started, although once I had seen the various applications I started to wander off, and use the directories normally, without using the viewer.

There are so many bits and pieces on the CD that it is really difficult to fully review the CD, and its entire contents, but I'm sure that whatever you're interested in, from
