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Boldly go where no accountant has gone before. Instead of just using a spreadsheet program in your practice to graph data in financial statements and other reports into bar and pie charts, and a presentation graphics program to dazzle clients at meetings, and a desktop publishing program to produce newsletters and related correspondence, you can use HiJaak Graphics Suite to relieve the frustration of employing separate tools for heavy-duty graphics chores. It matches up programs and graphical data with compatible file structures, sharpens your output, and lets you capture, modify, and enhance images. The $99 Suite provides an integrated set of utilities with sophisticated graphics capabilities.
Each program in the Windows-based Suite performs different functions. You can use them separately for simple tasks, or collectively for multi-function jobs. Browser, the desktop publishing program, manages files and organizes projects, offering easy access to the other components. Smuggler helps you search for and import files from other applications in over 75 formats. TouchUp turns dull, fuzzy images into bright, crisp ones, and offers various enhancement capabilities. PRO is a screen capture feature that saves images in many formats, and Draw lets you customize and modify images with 15 drawing tools.
Killing two birds with one stone
If you're comfortable using Windows, you can get started quickly, but operating the program fully and efficiently takes some time and patience. My first encounter with the program was a few months ago while reviewing pension software packages (Accounting Technology, August 1995). HiJaak PRO produced the screen shots that appeared in the story. Being short on time and long on pension packages, I ignored other features and ventured directly into capturing the screen images. Surprisingly, I was able to produce professional-looking illustrations in short order, with a quick stop over in Retouch and File Conversion. E-mailing the...