RISC User 11:1

November 1997

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Contents

Acorn World '97 Feature

Imp Arc Show Report
We report on all that was new and exciting at Wembley
Imp Arc New Technologies
Read about the exciting new pieces of technology that were being demonstrated on the Acorn stand
Imp Arc Education Report
Chris Drage summarises Acorn World from an educational viewpoint
Imp Arc Cox and Bondar Speak!
Matt Browne reports back on what Acorn's Chris Cox and Peter Bondar had to say at the Show

Features

Imp Arc DTP Workshop
Keith Parker presents some advice about getting your documents printed professionally
Imp Arc Pocket Book OPL
Our Pocket Book programming column turns its attention to graphics
Imp Arc Education
Marshal Anderson surfs the Web in search of useful educational sites
Imp Arc Working on the Image
Nobilangelo Ceramalus gets worked up about software manuals and super-scaling TWAIN scanner drivers
Imp Arc How To Make Light of HTML
Introducing effect tags for your Web pages
Imp Arc Brew Your Own Java
In this month's episode we take a tentative first look at object-orientation, with simple arrays
Imp Arc Toolbox Topics
Tony Howat adds a pop-up file selector and compressed file handling to his Draw file library application
Imp Arc In Business with Acorn
We visit T-J Reproductions, the most famous of the Acorn printing houses
Imp Arc PC Matters: 95mph
Optimise the performance of Windows 95 on your PC card

Reviews

Imp Arc Netline
Carol Carpenter reviews Messenger, an excellent new freeware newsreader package
Imp Arc Parallel Port Removable Drives
We put the parallel port versions of the Iomega Zip and SyQuest EZflyer drives to the test

Regulars

Imp Arc Editorial
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Imp Arc News
Imp Arc Points Arising
Imp Arc Write-Back
Imp Arc Hints & Tips
Imp Arc Puzzle
Plus solution for puzzle 10:10
Imp Arc Magazine Disc Dsc

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
Res Cover and Show photos (JPEGs)
Photography by Richard Hallas, using an Olympus C-800L digital camera