DrawPerfect 1.0         business/presentation graphics
Presentation Graphics for WordPerfect Users
 
Microbytes Daily News Service
Copyright (c) 1989, McGraw-Hill, Inc.
WordPerfect Corp. last week announced that beta testing of
DrawPerfect 1.0 has begun and that the presentation graphics
program should be available sometime between December 1989 and
February 1990. Although you can run the program as a
stand-alone application, its main niche is for WordPerfect users
who want to add creative touches to documents, using familiar
WordPerfect commands, the company reports.
 
DrawPerfect is a page-oriented program in that you design one
page at a time, unlike a document in which one file can consist
of many pages. When you want to view a series of pages in
sequence, you can use the program's presentation feature to
link files. Once you've created the pages, you can run a
presentation on your computer, or with timed delay, fade, and
sweep options, you can create a self-running presentation. You
can display presentations on the screen, print them on overhead
transparencies, or create slides with them.
 
DrawPerfect will let you import data from PlanPerfect, 1-2-3,
and Excel spreadsheets and display them in scatter, stacked
bar, and other charts and graphs. More than 500 images are
available in the figure library; if you want to create your own
images, you can draw straight lines or freehand, adding lines,
boxes, arcs, and curves. The program supports 64 fill patterns,
16 line styles, and 256 colors. A grid feature helps with
precise object placement, and you can zoom into an area to
adjust the finer details.
 
When you edit text in DrawPerfect, you use many familiar
WordPerfect commands (e.g., F6 for bold). All images in the
graphics library are in .WPG format; the program can also
import TIFF, PCX, CGM, HPGL, DXF, and several other graphics
formats. DrawPerfect uses the same printer and display drivers,
macro command language, and List Files feature as WordPerfect.
It also has 20 built-in fonts.
 
DrawPerfect 1.0 requires 384K bytes of RAM on the IBM PC.
 
Price: $495.
 
Contact: WordPerfect Corp., 1555 N. Technology Way, Orem, UT
84057, (801) 225-5000.
 
                              --- David L. Andrews
 
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