XAllWrite

The word-processing application Axene XAllWrite permits the user to create excellent quality documents with ease, whether a simple letter or a large, complex publication. It features tools for multi-document management, bitmap or line-art image integration, various font capabilities, and HTML format exportation. All with the same ergonomic graphical user interface found in the Axene XQuad spreadsheet application and Axene Xclamation desktop publisher.

Release 2.0.1 Beta

Environment

100% Unix native
Supported by most Unix platforms: AIX, DIGITAL-UNIX, DG/UX, FREEBSD, HP-UX, IRIX, LINUX, LINUX SPARC, MIPS, NETBSD, OSF/1, SCO, SOLARIS PC, SOLARIS SPARC, SUNOS, UNIXWARE, ...
X11 / Motif Graphical User Interface, available in English, French, German or Spanish
Adjustable interface
International character support (ISO Latin-1)
PostScript® Type 1 fonts
WYSIWYG display
Multiple document capabilities (several documents may be active simultaneously
Online documentation
Workstation or Floating license management

User interface

Mouse and keyboard shortcuts
Pulldown menus
Contextual menus
Thematic toolbars dynamically displayed
Adjustable document windows
Clipboard window
Cut - Copy - Paste
Drag & Drop
Trash (to remove an object, drag it into the trash)
Dynamic information bar (describes commands and tools)
Continuous contextual access to on-line help using any HTML browser (XMayday or other)

Display

Zoom from 10 to 400%, full page, actual size
Available for monochrome, 8, 15, 16, 24 bit X servers
Color definition according to modes: RGB, CMYK (with black optimization), HSB (Hue, Saturation, Brightness) and grayscale
Customizable color palette (16 million colors possible)
Many integrated PostScript® scalable screen fonts
Precise positioning along margin and ruler lines
Margin modification
Tab modification
Horizontal and vertical ruler bars
Multiple windows (allows movement of objects between windows and documents)
Selection of the object display plane (bring forward/push back)
Worksheets displayed in cascade or tile format
Independent formatting by page (two-sided page, double page, portrait, landscape, ...)
Image preview optimization (dithering)
Display special characters

Texts

Text insertion
Search - Replace
Color management
Many typographic styles available: bold, italic, underlined, strike-through, shadowed, small caps, factors, exponents, ...
Import / export (ASCII, HTML, Xclamation, XQuad, ...)
Paragraph formats (alignments, indent, interline, inter-paragraph, ...)
Save text styles and formats
Count: lines, words, characters
Bullets and ordered lists
Page break
Sections

Frames

Infinite number of superimposed planes
Frame anchored to text or page
Frame decoration (background color, thickness and color of borders, transparency)
Wrap text around frame

Images

Supports the following imported bitmap formats: JPEG, TIFF, GIF, TARGA, PNG, PCX, XWD, BMP, RLE, PPM, PGM, PBM, MacPaint, Sun Raster, ...
Supports the following imported vector drawing formats: Adobe Illustrator® (AI), WMF, Xfig, XQuad, ...
Centering
Move within a frame
Resize to frame dimensions
Full Frame
Image cache system

Pager

Page number display
Page numbering (direct access, redefinition of parameters)

Printing

PostScript® printing
Printer selection
Choice of number of copies
Choice of page formats (standard and personalized formats)
Portrait or landscape orientation
Margin definition
Color or grayscale printout
Draft mode
Print to a file

XAllWrite is a registered trademark. Copyright ©1997-2000 Axene, all rights reserved.
All others are trademarks of their respective holder.
Axene reserves the right to revise this document and/or change product features or specifications without advance notice.