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perrym@amioz.apana.org.au (Perry Mowbray) wrote:

>In a message of 05 Mar 96 FTS wrote to All:

> F> Hello everybody,

>G'day

> F> does anybody of you use PROVECTOR from Stylus? I would like to buy it
> F> but
> F> get some more informative infos at the beginning. I did a short test of
> F> the demo on Aminet 7, but would like to here someone's opinion on it.
> F> BTW, what is its retail price in the US and where could I try to buy
> F> from
> F> Germany?

>IMHO.....
>It has a huge arexx port
>It exports in postscript, iff, HPGL & HPGL2, adobe illustrator!
>It imports iff, HPGL & 2, postscript!
>Many internal object warp, mangle and changes
>Comes with a tracer
>Is fast (on my 4k '040)
>DOES NOT CRASH.

>I use it as a CAD package (I tried most of the others without much success
>:( !). It is that flexible! I have written many arexx scripts to CADify it,
>and alter the HPGL export to support fully my 8 pen plotter.

>It is very well supported by Stylus! They have answered all my queries very
>quickly. This is not to say that there are features I'd like to see
>implemented, but the package as is, saves me time and makes me money. I can
>only recommend it!

>One big problem I have found though, is that ProVector's native format is
>not well supported by PageStream (my DTP), therefore images need to be
>exported in a different format is used in PageStream :( !!

>Regards,
>PM

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>Perry Mowbray
>Email: perrym@amioz.apana.org.au
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Does it support gradient fills, Pantone colours, layers or 24bit
displays (CyberGfx). Ie is it a pro product like Corel, Illustrator
etc or just another structured graphics wanna-be...
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