Rotator 0.6
80%
DTP
Shareware, all Ataris.

Rotator is a shareware vector font text effects program written by Simon 
Coward that can produce angled, rotated, arched, sine wave and circular 
text effects. It requires either SpeedoGDOS or NVDI version 3 or later.

It's come on in leaps and bounds in the last few versions and now supports 
layers and multiple loop functions that make it easier to create 3D 
effects and shadowed or exploding text.

The program has menu options to select the effect type, the various 
settings for each type, which font and point size to use, the zoom setting 
for displaying the text and how many layers there are and their 
relationships to each other. (See screen shot).

Rotator stores each text entry along with it's settings in a file with a 
.ROT extension.

It would be useful to be able to type in more than one line of text and 
also if more effect types could be supported as in Wordperfect on the PC.

Registration is only œ5 and enables the option to save non-normal text as 
IMG files for direct import into DTP programs. Given that the program is 
still being developed, I would encourage anyone who could find a use for 
this program to give the author support and register it straight away.

Martin Milner


** Images/Captions **

** layers.gif **
Screen shot showing the Layers dialog

** acshadow.gif **
An example of shadowed text produced with Rotator

** acpap.gif **
Circular and Sinewave text from Rotator in use in Papyrus