Best of Amiga... list of the best software available

[rhino]

@mantisspider

Your question has started an interesting thread, here's my list:

Wordprocessing: Final Writer 5 - Powerful and easy to use for basic WP although it lacks some fancier features like tables.

DeskTop Publishing App: PageStream 4.1 - Fantastic app, powerful yet pretty simple to use. We use PageStream to layout Total Amiga magazine so I spend a lot of time using it

Image Editing apps: I use ImageFX more than any other, it's  very powerful, with great layers features. I find IFX best for image processing and composition rather than "painting". It takes a while to learn but is well worth the effort. I also use Photogenics 5 and Personal Paint on a regular basis.

Spreadsheet: Final Calc

Database: Fiasco - It's a neat little shareware DB.

Scanning software: fxScan

CDwriting: MakeCD

EMail app: Thor - I like Thor because it combines E-mail and newsgroups in one program.

WebBrowser: IBrowse 2.3

Video Player: FroggerNG

[rhino]

@mantisspider

these last few years I have been told by printers, "supply it as a PDF please", so as soon as my amiga is able to convert DTP and Graphic files perfectly into flawless PDF files then i dont need to keep playing with my PC.

As Jeffimix mentioned, there are a number of recent ports of GhostScript to the Amiga that do an excellent job of converting Postscript output (many Amiga applications including PageStream, FinalWriter and WordWorth can output Postscript) to PDF.

We use this method to create PDFs of Total Amiga for our printer (who are not Amiga-aware BTW) and have never had any problems.

Here is a link to the port of GS 8 I use.

HTH

Robert