Use of Creator

[Grimm, Kenneth]

Hi all:

**Puts on cheerleading outfit with sparkly pom-poms**

Don't visualize that, your corneas will burn and you'll be blind...

I've been using Multi-ad Creator since version 1.0 for many projects and
tasks (forms creation is a dream on this program), it does WAY more than
just create ads.

There are so many features implemented in such intuitive and powerful ways I
don't know where to start, but these are standouts in my mind:

Make Matrix - This extremely powerful tool allows you to make any repeating
element or whatever in several ways that no other program comes close to
implementing as well. It's like a step and repeat on steroids. Checkerboard
car ads, repeating stars, backgrounds, repeating formats... Your imagination
is the limit on how powerful this tool can be.

Style models - Creator takes styles to new heights of power. This
implementation of style models takes names and kicks a$$ above all other
programs. You can change fonts, sizes, type styles, etc. etc., ALL ON THE
SAME LINE. You can have multiple paragraphs with complex formatting and with
a single click, have all of it formatted instantly. Your imagination will be
challenged with the many ways this single feature can be used.

Combine style models with Creator's tagged markup language plus its robust
object model (addressed by AppleScript or VBS), and Creator can be used as
an engine for data base publishing. I've used it to create phonebooks and
classified pages where the info in the publication came from a database and
Creator was used to typeset finished pages all in just a few steps.

Copy fitting - Creator does this right and did it right way before any
others on the playground. Its text copy fitting is beyond compare and so
easy to do.

I'll stop here, only because of time constraints -- and finish with the one
best single feature of this program -- the support network of users and
incredible support from the staff of Creator. Where else can you find the
senior software architect of a major program send you an answer to a problem
within minutes of your posting it? Where else can you get dang near instant
answers, suggestions and solutions from users across the country? And this
bunch of users didn't just fall off the turnip truck, we are pros in our
industry and help each other willingly.

And they listen! I've seen several of my suggestions be incorporated into
the NEXT release of the program. Try that with any other program! I dare
you!

To bottom line it, Creator kicks a$$ and takes names... and is, simply put,
the BEST at what it does, hands down.
 
Ken Grimm
IT Systems Manager/Technical Specialist
San Angelo Standard-Times
34 W. Harris
San Angelo TX 76903
325-659-8357 Direct line
325-374-4238 Cell
325-659-8172 Fax