Now available - Drag 'N Drop 6i3

Drag ’N Drop is a quarterly magazine in PDF, mainly for users of RISC OS on the Raspberry Pi but content will be of interest to all RISC OS 5 users.

Volume 6 issue 3 is out at the Wakefield show (available from the website afterwards)

News, Comment, Beginner’s Tips, Application Updates.

The Book of Draw Stuff – exciting new release from Drag ’N Drop Publications.

Reviews – two books and DeskEdit 2015 come under the microscope.

Files of the World – start of a new series taking a close look at standard file formats, beginning with RTF and a Basic RTF-to-text converter.

Pipeworkx – if you use Fireworkz, Excel, Pipedream – or a combination of all – but struggle with the different ways in which operations are carried out then this guide is for you.

RISC OS Programming in Basic – part 6 of the series on writing a PDF-to-text app.

Weblog – we take a glance at a Netsurf-compatible website for converting files online.

Text Area utils – two utilities for formatting CSV files into Draw Text Area columns and auto-formatting columns in a Draw file.

Sony MCS1 – burning CDs without a computer.

Picano Special Order – we hear from a designer in Belgium.

No Time for Tea – Richard Brown of Orpheus Internet talks about packing up his Apple Macs and going over completely to RISC OS.

Articles are written in an informal style designed to encourage new or returning users and programmers.

Each issue of Drag N Drop costs £3.50 on a pay-as-you go basis when purchased through the Drag N Drop website at http://www.dragdrop.co.uk. You can “try before you buy”: free samples are available for download. You can also purchase it from !Store at a higher price of £4.50 but including the “type in” listings in a ready-to-run format.

If using Netsurf and Paypal to purchase Drag ’N Drop please remember to disable javascript¹ . We also recommend viewing Drag ’N Drop in Ghostscript² rather than !PDF.

¹ Click menu on Netsurf’s Iconbar icon > Choices > Content > Disable JavaScript
² Ghostscript for RISC OS can be downloaded free from http://www.mw-software.com/software/ghostscript/ghostscript.html