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Amiga News and Community Announcements => Amiga News and Community Announcements => Announcements and Press Releases => Topic started by: takemehomegrandma on June 13, 2004, 12:38:09 PM
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Grasshopper LLC has announced Pagestream 5.0. The MorphOS version will be available later this month together with the AmigaOS 68k version.
"New in PageStream 5.0:
- Alpha Blending for Text and Objects
- Picture Transparency
- Text Widow and Orphan Control
- Definable Printer Marks
- More Shortcuts
- Path Flatten and Smooth
- Hanging Bullets, DropCaps and Number
- New Duplicate Objects Method
- and more!
New in PageStream 5.0 Pro:
- Place PDF Objects
- Export Objects as Bitmap
- Automatically Adjust Text Width Justify
- Gradient/Radial Blend Masks for Pictures/EPS/PDF/Drawings
- Path Math: Union/Add/Unique/Subtract
- and more!
The Windows and Linux versions are the first available for download. Additional web site details, online documentation, and demos will be updated over the next week.
The Amiga 68k and MorphOS download are to follow later this month. Due to internal problems, the Mac OSX version will come shortly later but those patient customers will be receive 5.0 instead of 4.1 at no additional charge. The AmigaOS4 version schedule will depend on new developments with Amiga Inc now out of the picture.
While the Windows and Linux versions are available for download, they are not available in CD form at this time. We are still working to improve the Windows interface (the same interface code used in 4.1.6 is used in 5.0), and we also hope that feedback from initial users will help mold this version. As anyone who has been a PageStream user in the past knows, we are continually updating our products and the rate of change is greatest when a product is first made available. Four features have already been added this week in response to feedback from our customers, and a fifth and sixth is being worked on now (adding print to bitmap support and support for more TIFF file formats)."
http://www.grasshopperllc.com (http://www.grasshopperllc.com)
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welldone Grasshopper LLC :-)
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"The AmigaOS4 version schedule will depend on new developments with Amiga Inc now out of the picture."
Erm, what does Amiga Inc. have to do with the release schedule of software? The way I understood things is that they merely licensed things to Hyperion and Eyetech. Surely you don't need their approval to release software for the platform? Or am I wrong?
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Hi
the problem is a little bit complex (apparently) even if easy to fix IMHO ;-)
Have you ALL an idea, how much developers are ready to develop/port apps for OS4, BUT they haven't an AOne?
They asks AOne for development pourposes but no one answer to theyr requests . . . so AOne producer, resellers . . .wakeup!!! . . . above of all Eyetech.
Ciao
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I wonder if they would consider an AROS version...
Dammy
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Would an AROS version not simply be a re-compile of the 68k code. Assuming it's portable. For that matter. Wouldn't AOS4 be able to run this software through emulation?
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AFAIK it will /or maybe is already(?) possible to develop for AOS4 on 3.1-3.9 machines and even Linux and Windows(!). I'm saying this cause they we talking about cross compilers sometime ago. Or maybe I didn't understood correctly.
But it would be much more appealing devloping in the hardware itself of course!
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@Jose
Cross-compilers are nice, but pretty worthless when you have no way of testing wether the produced code actually works or not.
And sending stuff back and forth with an external betatester can be "slightly" demotivating.