This page provides Ovation Pro-related files for downloading. Note that all files are archived, so you will need a de-archiver such as SparkFS. This page is a combination of what was always online combined with the contents of the "Others" folder on the CD. Some items are usable with the Windows version of Ovation Pro, many are not e.g. filters and compressed dictionaries.
Script Language
Strong Help
Location Others.Crawford.Resources
This is a Strong Help manual giving descriptions of
the Ovation Pro functions. This is useful because it
can be easily accessed from inside programmers
editors.
Example Documents
Magazine
Location Others.Clegg.Examples
Copy of a magazine produced using Ovation Pro.
DTP with Ovation Pro
Location Others.Hallas.Resources.Risc User
This directory contains a set of thirteen articles
which appeared in RISC User magazine, volumes
11 and 12. The articles concern various aspects of
desktop publishing using Ovation Pro, and were all
written by Richard Hallas.
A frequent requirement is for label templates there are a number on the CD, these are standard Avery labels, the width, height (in mm) and number of labels are given.
Avery Labels
Location Others.Brown.Examples
L7651 L 7651 38.1x21.2x65
Avery Labels
Location Others.Ellacot.Examples
L14 Avery L14 Labels
Avery Labels
Location Others.Johnson.Examples
L7160 L7160 63.5x38.1x21
L7162 L7162 99.1x34x6
L7664 L7664 Diskette 70x71.9x8
Avery Labels
Location Others.Kirk.Examples
L7159 L7159 64x34x24
L7161 L7161 63.5x46.6x18
L7164 L7164 63.5x72x12
Templates
Location Others.Symes.Examples
Contains a collection of useful templates and
examples of how to achieve certain effects.
Euro
Location CD.Others.Symes.EuroFont
contains some notes on how to display the Euro
character if your old fonts do not support it.
Borders
New borders JMAH van Vredenburch's border upgrade.
Dictionaries
Dutch
Upgrade to JMAH van Vredenburch's Dutch dictionary and hyphenation dictionary. (419K) (24/8/2010)
French
Upgrade to JMAH van Vredenburch's French dictionary. (126K) (24/8/2010).
Dutch hyphenation
Upgrade to Paul Sprangers large Dutch hyphenation dictionary. (725K) (26/10/2010).
Big-Dutch
Location Others.Vredenburch.Dictionaries.Dutch
A Dutch dictionary
DutchHyph
Location Others.Vredenburch.Dictionaries.Dutch
A text file of Dutch words one can add to the hyphenation dictionary.
!French
Location Others.Vredenburch.Dictionaries.French
A large French dictionary
!Deutsch
Location Others.Vredenburch.Dictionaries.German
!Italian
Location Others.Korwin.Dictionaries
French-Dict
Location Others.Mawhood.Dictionaries
!Norwegian
Location Others.Tengelsen.Dictionaries
Filters
!TransIMP 1.06
Impression document loader, requires Ovation Pro 2.60 or later 26/32 bit compatible(30K) (10/2/2007).
For source code see Impression.
!TransDDF 1.13
Latest version with bug fixes. 26/32 bit compatible (16K) (10/2/2007).
Source code is contained in the Ovation Pro for RISC OS source code archive.
!TransRTF 1.83
Latest version with various bug fixes (21K).
This is 26 bit only and won't work on newer versions of RISC OS. The source code is lost, see the new version 2.00 below.
!TransRTF 2.02
Rewritten 26/32 bit version - 28th March 2007 (21K).
!TransData 1.01
Crude attempt to strip ASCII text out of any file. 26/32 bit compatible (9K).
!TransFSI 1.01
Graphics loader using ChangeFSI. Bug fixed for RISC OS 5. (9K).
Note that you will have to edit this to not attempt to load any file types for which you have other loaders - for example TIFF and PNG.
!TranTIFF+ 1.01
Improved TIFF loader. (77K).
!TranPNG 1.00
PNG loader using Darren Salt's png2spr utility.
!TransPCD 1.01
PhotoCD loader using ChangeFSI. Bug fixed for RISC OS 5. (9K).
!Server
Replacement !Server file. 26/32 bit compatible. The filters above which are 26/32 bit compatible already include this file. (5K).
!TransWord
Location Others.Thompson.Filters
The filter !TransWord allows some MicroSoft
Word files to be loaded. Note newer versions of
Word are not supported.
!TransHTML
Location Others.Levens.Filters
The filter !TransHTML allows some HTML files
to be loaded.
!TransGIF
Location Others.Levens.Filters
The filter !TransGIF allows GIF files to be
loaded into picture frames. Note that this filter
supports masks and hence does a better job for
GIF’s than !TransFSI.
Colour Charts
ColourCharts
Location Others.Piper.Resources.ColourCharts
Colour charts can be installed by copying them into
the !OvnPro.!OvnResDir.Colours directory. In this example you could copy the files
Draw and Netscape.
Macros
ImpKeys
Set the key short-cuts to resemble those in Impression. (2K).
Multirow
Sample multi-row button bar. (9K).
Program Fixes
CCprfix 1.03
Latest version of script which fixes problems of upside-down pictures printed using Turbo Drivers or Laser Direct.(1K).
Replacement Thesaurus data file
The data file in some versions of the Thesaurus is corrupt, this file fixes it. The corrupt file is in the version of Thesaurus supplied on white floppy discs and on CD's which either don't have a DavidPilling.Documentation.Changes file, or where the Changes file starts at the 9th of October 2000. (60K).
Thesaurus upgrade.
Upgrade Thesaurus from version 1.24 to 1.25. 1.25 is 26/32 bit compatible. (100K).
Documentation
Applets (07/09/99)
Series of three articles by Tony Howat published in Risc User in 1998 on writing OvationPro applets. (165K).
Macros (07/12/99)
Series of two articles by John Pettigrew published in Acorn User in 1999 on writing OvationPro macros. (26K).
Applets (30/4/05)
A series of three articles written by John Pettigrew on writing Ovation Pro applets published in Acorn User in 2000. (236K).
CMYKC (18/11/99)
Notes on how to calibrate the on screen conversion to RGB of CMYK colours. (4K).
RISC OS 4 (18/11/99)
Discussion of problems with RISC OS 4 and solutions (1K).
Spell (18/11/99)
Applet demonstrating how to make use of spelling error events (pedagogical use only)(1.5K).
Impression DDF specification (19/11/03)
Explains how to write DDF files. The point being that DDF files are an easy way to produce marked up text, and Ovation Pro can read them if the DDF filter is installed. File appears by kind permission of XAT(9K).
Programming Tutorials (duplicates of above, but they're on the CD too)
Script programming
Location Others.Pettigrew.Resources
A series of two articles written by John Pettigrew
on using the Ovation Pro script language published
in the February and March 1999 editions of Acorn
User.
Applets
Location Others.Howatt.Resources
A series of three articles by Tony Howatt on
writing Ovation Pro applets.