RT4 collection with netOctopus TeamAgenda, USE., MarcoPolo, Timbuktu,
ProView, DraftBoard, SNAP Navigator and other stuff e.g. ShrinkWrap
2.0.

> | RagTime 4.2
>
> * * *
>
> AMBITIOUS OFFICE SUITE DOES IT ALL . . . ALMOST
> ---
> APPLE'S RECENT PROFITABILITY
>  comes at the expense of some promising technologies; one of the
> most intriguing was OpenDoc, a now-abandoned format that allowed
> several applications to work with different kinds of data within a
> single document. Although OpenDoc is gone, its roots remain in
> RagTime 4.2, ComGrafix's integrated document-processing application.
>
>  Officier Suisse
>  RagTime's distributor describes the program as the "Swiss Army
> Knife of office applications" with good reason. RagTime incorporates
> features typically found in page-layout, word-processing,
> spreadsheet, and illustration applications. This idea may sound
> familiar to users of ClarisWorks (now known as AppleWorks) and
> Microsoft Office, but there's a difference: RagTime's integrated
> components share data without launching other applications or making
> you cut and paste elements between documents. Instead, you create
> containers on the page, using a technique familiar to QuarkXPress
> users?you draw a frame and then designate the kind of data it will
> hold, such as text, spreadsheets, pictures, drawings, graphs,
> movies, or sounds.
>  Clicking within a container changes RagTime's tool bar to reflect
> the kinds of operations you can perform; click within a text
> container, for instance, and RagTime's tool bar sports buttons for
> changing alignment and line spacing, a stylesheet pull-down menu,
> and tab controls. To work with grittier elements?such as kerning,
> word spacing, and drop caps?you press the tool bar's Information
> button to access the controls within a window, which also changes
> depending on the kind of container you're working in.
>  Thankfully, you needn't resort to the Information window for every
> small change . The Format menu allows you to modify font typefaces,
> sizes, and styles, as well as alter how numbers are formatted-select
> from decimal, elate, and dollar, for example. You can't create
> additional tool-bar buttons?a feature Microsoft Word users will
> miss?but you can tear off menus to leave them | visible at all
> times. Ripping menus away is rarely necessary, though, since RagTime
> includes palettes for controlling typo-
>
>  ![][1]Office Sweet RagTime 4.2 pages easily accommodate flowing
> text, dynamic spreadsheet containers, rotated text, and photographs.
>
>  graphic settings, object coordinates, and spreadsheet and drawing
> commands.
>
>
>  A True Jack-of-All-Trades
>  The Swiss Army Knife analogy usually implies that a program offers
> a wide-ranging list of features but ignores the finer points. This
> is less true of RagTime than of programs such as Apple Works.
> Although the mini-applications that operate within RagTime's
> containers may not be as powerful as the combined efforts of
> Microsoft Excel, Word, QuarkXPress, and Adobe Illustrator, they're
> hardly bare-bones. The spreadsheet component supports more than 200
> functions and a wealth of chart types. Although RagTime doesn't
> offer the advanced flowing-text options of QuarkXPress, text does
> flow around containers that are in its path-and automatically
> reflows as you move elements. You can also scan directly into a
> container, using Rag Time's TWAIN Acquire module, and then make
> scale, position, contrast, and color adjustments within a Picture
> Information window. Virtually every part of RagTime is scriptable.
> And as with Microsoft Office 98, you can save your files as HTML
> documents.
>  Although you can import and export common file types?EPS, TIFF,
> PICT,
> RTF, QuickTime, SYLK, and Microsoft documents (Office 98 converters
> will be available in an upcoming update)?there's a catch. You can
> export individual elements to applications that can read
> them?spreadsheet containers to Excel, for example?but you can export
> an entire RagTime document only as a PICT file.
>
>  Linkin' Ways
>  RagTime would be just another office suite'?albeit a well-
> integrated one?if it weren't for the program's dynamic-linking
> feature. This free exchange of data among dynamically linked
> containers sets RagTime apart. You can implant a number field into a
> text container that's linked to a cell in a spreadsheet container.
> When you change the number in that cell, the number in the text
> container changes automatically?a helpful trick for dynamically
> updating invoices, cover letters, and other correspondence.
>  Likewise, with the optional $295 FileTime 4 extension, you can
> create a container that's linked to a FileMaker Pro database. When
> you make changes to the database, they're automatically entered into
> linked RagTime documents?mail-merge aficionados, take note.
>  Unfortunately, all this power has a price: a steep learning curve.
> Although the 223-page tutorial provides a decent overview, it skips
> many of the program's most powerful features. Armed with a few
> sample files, the terse reference manual, and the online help
> system, you'll eventually get your work done, but advanced users
> would appreciate a broader tutorial.
>
>  Macworld's Buying Advice
>  RagTime 4.2 is not for everyone. If you want to type a letter or
> create a simple spreadsheet, there are easier ways to go. If your
> work requires all the capabilities of a high-end dedicated
> application, you should use just that. But if your projects fall
> somewhere in between?newsletters, small publications, business forms
> and correspondence?RagTime 4.2 may be just the tool for
> you.?CHRISTOPHER BREEN
>  | RATING: [4 mice] PROS: Powerful integration of document-
> processing tools; strong AppleScript support. CONS: Can't customize
> tool bars; hard to master; can't read Microsoft Office 98 files yet.
> COMPANY: ComGrafix (813/443-6807, [www.comgrafix.com][2]). LIST
> PRICE: $495.
> ---

? [Macworld, 1998 August, p.40][3]


First DL: CD ISO deflated with StuffIt 5.

Second DL: DiskTracker file deflated with StuffIt 5.

RagTime4 is a German DTP software, not sure whether it could be
installed with a GUI in another language like the later flavors.

The "Manual" button links to an RT4 promotion brochure rather than a
real manual.
The file is taken from the CD.

Compatibility
Architecture: 68k PPC

  [1]: http://revontulet.org/2022/01/23/OfficeSweet-RagTime-4.2.png
  [2]: http://www.comgrafix.com (www.comgrafix.com)
  [3]: https://vintageapple.org/macworld/pdf/MacWorld_9808_August_1998.pdf

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