Mirrorsoft's first venture into desktop publishing on the BBC Micro, the highly successful Fleet Street Editor, is a very capable program, but as with all good things there are always improvements that can be made.

Two new packages which help the budding magnate to put together a smart paper are Admin Xtra and the Walt Disney graphics library. Both are supplied as a flippable 40 or 80 track disc in an A5 folder, also housing appendix sheets pre-punched for filing in the main Fleet Street binder. The documentation is up to Mirrorsoft's usual high standard, with plenty of illustrations.

Admin Xtra, programmed by those doyens of useful utilities, Clares, provides four main utilities: mode converter, display, poster maker and disc index. They can be used independently of the main PSE disc, and are called from their own menu, using Space and Return as normal.

The mode converter takes screens from modes 0, 1, 2, 5 and 7 and converts them into Mode 4 screens, suitable for incorporating into Fleet Street panels. You can now take graphics screens from many art packages (including, cheekily, the AMX range), convert them to Mode 4 and use them in your newsletter or poster.

Display is a utility which should really have been provided with the original package. It allows you to scan through panels that you've made up and stored on disc. Handy for copying panels from disc to disc. Handy for copying panels from disc to disc, or checking their order before making up a page.

Poster Maker is a useful utility which broadens the application of Fleet Street Editor. The program allows you to print any panel in a number of large scale formats, including 2x2, 3x3 and 2x4. These options open the possibility of handouts and flyers, or of producing colouring books for your children! It's a pity the options are only available for a single panel at a time, but it does allow you to produce A4 landscape proportions.

The disc index can be used on any set of discs, not just those used for Fleet Street Editor files. It automatically reads all the file names on a disc, together with 'descriptors' of up to 30 characters each, and stores them on a master index disc. It can then search the index disc for a word or phrase within a filename or descriptor, and will display a disc number so that you can go straight to your properly catalogued (they are, aren't they?) disc of that number. This utility is only as good as is your own organisation.

The utility which still seems to be missing, and why I still favour Pagemaker to Fleet Street Editor, is the ability to view a full page before printing. I don't expect to be able to see it at full size, but it's very difficult to gauge page layout by looking at individual panels or a page make-up screen consisting of filenames.

The Walt Disney graphics library contains 22 pages of Mickey, Donald, Goofy and the rest. Most of the key characters are there, though in most cases only one sketch of each. They're all outline drawings, and very close indeed to the originals.

My only hesitation is that the images are so well known that it's difficult to use them in anything other than a Walt Disney-based application. If that's what you want, then this library has a good cross section of favourites.