RISC User 10:8

July 1997

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Features

Imp Arc Working on the Image
Nobilangelo Ceramalus gets up to some Clannish tricks
Imp Arc A7000+
We asses the exciting new replacement for the A7000: Acorn's first machine to feature an FPU as standard
Imp Arc Brew Your Own Java
Peter Naulls, author of Chockcino, begins a new series on programming in Java
Imp Arc Pocket Book Comms & Script
Mark Moxon documents the Pocket Book's little-known communications software
Imp Arc Education
Our experts investigate some excellent CD-ROMs from Dorling Kindersley, Microsoft and Cambridgeshire Software House
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Imp Arc Toolbox Topics
Your technical Toolbox queries are answered
Imp Arc DTP Workshop
Keith Parker assesses the colour handling and professional printing capabilities featured in the second major release of Ovation Pro
Imp Arc Fontophilia
Three new CD-ROMs full of fonts have recently been released, but what makes a good font? This article reveals all
Imp Arc PC Matters
Are your Windows 95 long filenames causing you a headache? Warm Silence Software's Win95FS will let you handle them easily under RISC OS
Imp Arc Wimp Topics
Learn how to create and handle button bars in your own applications, with our three-part mini-series
Imp Arc Just a Page
Graham Crow introduces a whole new meaning to computer poetry
Bas
Imp Arc Netline
Getting to grips with caches, proxies and mirrors

Reviews

Imp Arc Building the Super-Highway
Robin Watts assesses a range of graphical Web page creation utilities
Imp Arc Clip-art CD Collections
Peter Jennings assesses the Task Force and PublishArt 3 clip-art CD-ROMs
Imp Arc Mr Clippy
iSV's new clip-art manager will even sing to you! What more could your heart desire?

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Imp Arc Editorial
Note: this is slightly more extensive than the version printed in the magazine
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Imp Arc News
Imp Arc Write-Back
Imp Arc Hints & Tips
Imp Arc Puzzle
Plus solution for puzzle 10:7
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Additional files

Imp Flat Plan
Overall layout of pages for this issue of the magazine
Imp Progress sheet
A list of articles, their authors and the number of pages they occupy
Imp Production sheet
RISC User production sheet template for this issue
Imp Cover captions
Captions suggested for use on the front cover of this issue
Bas Just a Page: Original Bell Poem
The version of Graham Crow's Basic limerick which was the runner-up in Donald Knuth's rhyming program competition was slightly simpler than the one published in RISC User. Here is the original.