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Re:Desktop Publishing Tools That Didn't Make It (2022) by masfuerte on Wednesday July 09, 2025 @04:54PM (#44514648)
Was it Xara?

Corel licensed their software for a while and released it as CorelXARA.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xara

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Re:Desktop Publishing Tools That Didn't Make It (2022) by WillAdams on Wednesday July 09, 2025 @06:19PM (#44515286)
No, not Xara --- I finally managed to remember:

Cerilica (company name) Truism (product name).

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Re:Desktop Publishing Tools That Didn't Make It (2022) by whenc on Wednesday July 09, 2025 @07:12PM (#44515654)
The last big RISC OS program written in BASIC and assembler. I published something through Cerilica called TextFX, also in BASIC and assembler.

There was also Composition, by a chap from New Zealand. Multiple transparent layers of any size and position, and and interesting system-wide plugin system.

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Re:Desktop Publishing Tools That Didn't Make It (2022) by WillAdams on Thursday July 10, 2025 @07:39AM (#44519858)
That just makes me sadder that MacBasic wasn't available and more interested in trying RISC OS on a Raspberry Pi....
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