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Offering the same Courier, Times ah ԪRoman, and Helvetica equivalent typefaces as the DOS version of the product (including hollow versions), Publisher's ah  Powerpak/Windows provides an inexpensive and transparent ah  method of producing screen fonts on the fly, eliminating the need to devote large portions of your hard disk to font storage. If the fonts that are distributed with the product aren't sufficient for your needs, Atech has an extensive library $88 ! 7$of addon typefaces that are ! 7inexpensive, compatible, and ! 7take up on average only ! 7about 50 kilobytes of space ! 7each. ! 7!0 7X After its installation via a ! 7!0 7series of batch files that ! 7!0 7determines the version of ! 7!0 7Windows you're using and ah  ! 7!0 7your display driver, Publish ah ԭ! 7!0 7er's Powerpak puts the ap ah ԭ! 7!0 7propriate files on your disk ! 7in the Windows directory ah  ! 7and a subdirectory it cre! 7ates, occupies about 750K ! 7of space, total. You can ! 7move them, but the installa 88tion procedure refuses to work in a user defined directory, as is true for the DOSbased version. You can always move the files and reinstall the individual components to suit your tastes, but as distributed, Publisher's Powerpak is ready to run ah  in under five minutes, with a minimum of hassle. You are left, however, with modified SYSTEM.INI and WIN.INI files, only the former of which is first backed up. X In it's twenty pages of documentation, Publisher's Powerpak ah  manages to convey to you that it operates by serving as a replacement printer driver for, and with greater management capabilities then those distributed with Windows. Simply select ah  the appropriate fonts as you need them (any existing fonts in your system are unaffected), and Windows does the work ah  of generating screen output and rasterizing printer output into graphics that look like the text characters they replace, automatically. Besides the space savings afforded, this approach to font management has the added advantage of allowing you to create "fonts" larger then your printer might otherwise recognize, limited only by the capabilities of your software. The list of supported printers is best characterized as extensive. X As in the DOS world, there are pluses and minuses to be considered. We've enumerated the upside criteria; now here is the down: creating the fonts (and their equivalent graphics) takes time. This is not as much of a problem under Windows ah  3.0 as in other environments, but it's there, so be aware of it.5 /! 7\ !0 7+!5ԌQSThe problem of mediocre output present in the DOS version of Publisher's Powerpak is all but eliminated by the ah  rasterization process employed under Windows, so if you can ah  live with the speed issue, (Publisher's Powerpak certainly ah  qualifies as a good enough deal financially) give this one a look before you spend more money on another product. QLp Dragnet QLpPrompt ă QLmAccess Softekă QSWhat do you get when you take a small company, a distribution deal with a notsosmall one, and a couple of good ideas? In the case of Access Softek, Broderbund, and Dragnet and Prompt, you get two very different programs that ah  ! 7are marketed to look like close complements. ! 7QSIn truth, Dragnet and Prompt share eleven files out of the ah  ! 7twelve that make up each package, so it's easy to see where ! 7the idea that they are closely related came from. The eleven ! 7are made up of several Windows Dynamic Link Libraries, plus ah  ! 7!0 7various file viewers (.CGM, .DRW, HPGL, and .DBF) and ! 7!0 7launch pads (Word, WordPerfect, Windows Write, and 123) for ah  ! 7!0 7popular third party software, and text interpreters, and are ! 7!0 7not all imperative to operation of the programs, but needs in ! 7!0 7this regard are not identical for Dragnet and Prompt, so unless ah  ! 7!0 7you're very comfortable dealing with system crashes, you're ! 7!0 7probably best off following the directions for installation that ! 7accompany each product: copy the contents of the \WIN3 ! 7directory found on each disk into your main Windows ah  ! 7directory and leave them there. Total disk space required: 340 ! 7kilobytes for the accessory files, 72K for Dragnet, and 128K ah  ! 7for Prompt. ah  yAa L%yjddPROFILEy 1 ! 1 HAA())dd( 3t> XA  Product Name  3 [ PA,  :=  Dragnet $144.95 Prompt $129.95 Access Softek 3204 Adeline Street Berkeley, CA 94703 (415)6540116HQSBoth packages come with 5" and 3" diskettes, are accompanied by short (40odd pages) documentation booklets, and are designed for file management, but the similarity ends there. Prompt, in essence, in a replacement for Windows' File ah  Manager, sans online help. It's much more flexible, easier to use, occupies a similar amount of disk space, and makes nearly the same demand on system resources as does File Manager, giving up only the ability to format diskettes from within Windows. Prompt also adds a few features to the mix. ah  You can encrypt files (don't forget your password), compress $%%#A%$them (you must decompress A%them to use them), toggle A%the inclusion of hidden files A%in directory listings, and A%search for files by creation A%A%date, as well as Windows' ah  A%A%namebased hunting. A%A%QSPrompt does File Manager ah  A%A%better in several areas. Disk A%A%drive icons are shaded to A%A%show their state of fullness, A%A%you can have multiple diA%rectory trees (as well as A%contents) on screen simulA%taneously, and maintenance A%is point and click simplicity: A%just drag the directories or