Pagrestream DTP software, represented by Grasshopper LLC, is returning to AmiWest 2003! Now available on the four major platforms, Pagestream appeared first for the Amiga and many believe that the Amiga implementation is still the best. Many advanced desk-top publishing features are standard with the package.
Here is the story on Pagestream 4.1 from their website:
PageStream 4.1 first began life as the Table Editor add-on, but it became clear from our customers that this wasn't an optional feature in PageStream, but an integral part of every day document design. So, the Table Editor has been scrapped, and from its ashes arise the newest release of PageStream with tables built right in!
Place a table on the page, add and delete rows and columns, join cells into larger cells, and set the borders and fill of each cell. Looking for something special? How about a gradient filled cell? Set your text with all the power of PageStream's comprehensive typographic features. Define formulas using basic math functions like + - * / ( ) and higher functions like sum, average/avg, min, max, abs, sin, cos, tan, arcsin, arccos, arctan, log, int, and exp. Tables have never been so easy to create in PageStream!
But we didn't stop there! Full mail merge with easy variable assignment and optional record range to print, even print multiple
records to a page using the label and repeating print functions. Simple yet still powerful. Words that PageStream lives by!
Advanced control over the compression and encoding methods used when outputting PDF helps create tailor made PDF files. Emailing the file to a service bureau? Then save it with ZLib compression and binary encoding. Distributing the files to a wider audience? Uncompressed with Ascii85 encoding might be called for. You decide!
Text frames features got a second stage boost into the stratosphere in PageStream 4.1! Looking for borders around your text columns? No need to draw a separate box, just offset the text inwards, with each edge set independently. Text frames can now be divided into non-equal width columns.
Object transform has even more control than before! Advanced features such as fading the fill and stroke type to a target fill and stroke make many special effect possible. Even duplicating objects across pages is easy now. Changing your document to a chapter based design? The new move page control streamlines the process!
Of course, PageStream is a little bigger and takes a little more memory than before, but not as much as you might think. Object selection was sped up, and over all improvements to the program structure help streamline its performance and memory footprint. A lot of "under the hood" tuning, not cosmetic window dressing, is what gets the job done sooner. What amazes our customers is how other "competing" applications are often five to ten times PageStream's size, yet don't offer an equally larger amount of functionality. In fact, the opposite is often the case!
Features
Tables!
Built in Mail Merge!
Shift-cursor text selection!
Apply text attributes to using the object or reshape tool!
PDF export control over compression and encoding
Custom column widths and gutters inside text frames
Text inset from column edges!
Move pages between chapters
Duplicate/Transform objects across pages
Duplicate/Transform objects behind the original
Fade duplicated objects to a specified line and/or fill
Speed improvements
and of course much more!
As further proof that PageStream has been, and will always be, the DTP program to beat, a quick look at Quark Xpress 5.0's top 20 wish list includes 11 items in PageStream, and PageStream has 8 of the top 10! Where does all that money go?
Pricing
Table Editor customers will receive 4.1 automatically! PageStream4.0 customers can upgrade to 4.1 for only $50, and upgrade multiple copies for even less. PageStream3.x customers can upgrade for only $115. Customers of prior versions of PageStream (2.x and 1.x) can upgrade for just $135. Retail price is a fraction of the other DTP applications at only $299. Other discounts exist. Check out our order page for more details on those discounts.
SPECIALS AT AMIWEST ON PAGESTREAM!
Pagestream usually offers a great deal on their software at the AmiWest show. Be sure that you are there to take advantage of their offers for 2003!
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So remember,
AmiWest 2003 is rolling! The facility is reserved July 26 and 27, 2003 at the Holiday Inn Northeast in Sacramento California! New exhibitors are signing up regularly! Keep watching for these releases and tell everyone that you know - the Amiga and the Amiga community is alive and well! See you at AmiWest 2003!
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Amiga Forever,
Brian Deneen, President
Sacramento Amiga Computer Club
for the AmiWest 2003 Committee
HOTEL CONTACT
Holiday Inn, Sacramento Northeast
5321 Date Avenue
Sacramento California 95841-2597
Phone 1-916-338-5800 or
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