ProWesS is the windowing system which grew from the original PROforma applications developed by PROGS in the early nineties. Early PROGS programs such as 'The Painter' run in the standard Pointer Environment but the release of LINEdesign, the vector drawing package, saw the advent of PROforma which held the '_dll' libraries needed to make vector fonts and imaging possible. In the first releases of the programs PROforma was part of the package but PROGS soon realized that it made more sense to sell the windowing system as a separate system and make the applications cheaper by not having to include it. This coincided with several improvements and in the system itself and ProWesS was born.
The basic requirements for using this system are :
2 + Meg Ram
High Density Disk Drives
A Hard Disk
In order to get the best out of this system we would also recommend the use of SMSQ/E and a Super Gold Card / QXL / QPC / Atari TT system / Q40.
Q Branch has been using LINEdesign to produce its catalogues, invoices, and other printed output since its formation in 1996.
Recently PROGS decided to make ProWesS itself a free distribution under the GNU license. This is available from us on disk or directly from the PROGS ftp site. All of the PROGS programs are available from us. Recent developments have allowed the programs to run under the new SMSQ/E colour drivers which are, at present, only available for the Q 40 but which will soon be running on all SMSQ/E systems. There are also moves to make all of teh ProWesS prograns open source More on this when it is finalised.
The programs are :
LINEdesign
This was the flagship program which allowed high quality drawing on the QL and compatible systems for the first time. It is a full featured vector graphics package which allows the use of multiple fonts and complete picture editing. The release of the Colour Replacement drivers has allowed colour printing.
The basic interface and a few vital utility programs can be found on the ProWesS disk itself and all the other programs need it to run. The exception to this is DATAdesign, which will run under the normal Pointer Environment but needs ProWesS for all of its ancillary programs.
ProWesS - basic System This is a free program under the GNU licence. The fee is for disk and label. |
£ 1.60 |
LINEdesign v 2.15 - Vector Drawing Program |
£ 22.00 |
DATAdesign - Pointer driven Database ( can import Archive and Flashback files programmable from Assembler Basic and C via ProWesS ) |
£ 20.00 |
PFlist - print ASCII files from ProWesS |
£ 11.00 |
File Search - file finding program. |
£ 11.00 |
FontUtils - view, print, and convert fonts from Adobe format to PROForma |
£ 28.00 |
Pwfile - file handling program |
£ 17.00 |
ProWesS programs come with the manuals in electronic format on the disk. These can be read on screen or printed by the user. We can also supply printed and bound manuals at these prices. |
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LINEdesign Manual |
£ 10.00 |
DATAdesign Manual |
£ 10.00 |
| Further Information about ProWesS and free utilities / printer driver updates can be obtained from PROGS web site :http://www.progs.be |