Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2005 08:00:09 -0300 From: madodel at ptdprolog.net Subject: [VOICENWS] SW: Maul Publisher V3.00 for OS/2 ++ From the VOICE OS/2-eComStation News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++ From: "Peter Koller" Maul Publisher is an industrial strength desktop publisher capable of creating virtually all of the printing seen on everyday household items. You can use it to easily lay out newspapers, cards, books, labels, stamps, posters, charts, forms, and even designs like building plans or furniture arrangements. Maul contains a huge number of sophisticated features specifically for publishing. These include booklet printing and collation, precision bitmap scaling, prepress reports, color management, layout guides, style sheets, and much more. Maul is available in both German and English, and provides true multilingual support. Split archive:- You will need to download at least two of the following archives, and unzip them into the same folder maulebin300.zip - the binaries maulelde300.zip - the german language resources maulelen300.zip - the english language resources You can also unzip all of the above into the same folder and install the lot! Try http://www.manglais.com/download.php or http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/h-search?key=maule for the files. New to this version:- * You may need to purchase an upgrade from V2.xx * Split installation archives allow you to download additional languages at no extra cost. * Improved installer, with automatic installation mode. * Averaging colour capture, and full colour drag & drop support compatible with the operating system. * Common stylesheets, and automatic styles. Provides the means to copy styles between different handlers. * Project management tools to manage more than one file. Print a whole project in one go! * Improved dialogs to speed up the workflow. Many with simplified controls, or notebook features. * Enhanced bitmap functions, including smooth scaling tools. * Improved bitmap offlining tools work even when copying and pasting sets of frames. * Offset ruler bars to allow measurements from opposite sides of facing pages, for example. * Ruler bar scaling to help create CAD drawings. * Additional button styles, with button overlay icons. A prettier look and feel. * Improvements to the handling of dropcaps, with high precision text flow. * Improved printing, transparency on postscript printers. * Improved mailmerge. * New tools menu. * New file and text search functions. * New Footnotes feature. * New Article information feature. * New prepress report feature finds potential printing problems. * New drag & drop colour table, with support for automatic loading of colours on startup. * New recursive formatting allows frame clipart to be inserted into text as an image. * Improved inline image in text allows text to flow around an inline image. * New anchors allow symbolic linking within a publication. Reduces the file size. * Greatly improved import/export and open/save dialogs with 'All known file types' file filter. * Improved sample window for import shows more information. * Frames can now be exported or copied as a bitmap image. * Frame save to catalogue tools for fast clipart saving. * Improved popup help tools, and other items provide an easier learning curve for beginners. * Full multi-lingual support, with automatic language switching on a per-textarticle basis. * Per-file style settings for offlining etc. * Frame paste step & repeat, create a set of labels at the touch of a button. * Font embedding tool enables you to save and retrieve fonts inside the document. * Table spreadsheet functions. * ...plus around another 250 minor changes and bug fixes. -- Warpstock 2005 - Hershey, Pennsylvania, Oct. 6-9 http://www.warpstock.org Warpstock Europe 2005 - Dresden, Germany, Nov. 18-20 http://www.warpstock.net [Moderator's note: All posts are sent without guarantee to the accuracy of the content. We try to verify details and URLs but this is an entirely volunteer run list, so 100% fact checking and the quality/useability of products announced here is impossible. If you respond to this post please remove the DESPAM from the poster's email addresses. Please do not send requests for information about a specific post to the moderator unless it is an update or I sent it.] -- To unsubscribe yourself from this list, send the following message to majormajor at os2voice.org unsubscribe news end Or, visit http://www.os2voice.org/MailingLists.html If you have an announcement you would like posted to the VOICE News list, please send it to submit at os2voice.org. Please include a valid reply address and a real contact name. If you wish to comment on this post, please reply to feedback at os2voice.org