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From: tomb@hplsla.HP.COM (Tom Bruhns)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Maxiplan Plus 1.9 upgrades?
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Date: 13 Jul 89 15:45:59 GMT
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ejkst@unix.cis.pittsburgh.edu (Eric J. Kennedy) writes:
>
>If someone has had a chance to compare Plan/IT (sp?) with Precision
>software's Superplan, could you give us a head to head comparison?  I

Note:  I think a good head-to-head would be _super_.  If someone can
do it, how about trying to get it published??

>would like to get a decent spreadsheet that supports ARexx, and as far
>as I know, both qualify so far.
>
>
>-- 
>Eric Kennedy
>ejkst@cisunx.UUCP
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About the time Plan/IT came out, I bought Superplan because I waa
extremely frustrated with MaxiPlan Plus.  I may spend the $50 to
upgrade to Plan/IT, and could then give a better comparison, but for
now:  one of my biggest annoyances with MaxiPlan was with its hardcopy
output.  It only does dot-matrix graphics, and only to the resolution
of the screen.  I found the graphing controls to be very limited.
By comparison, Superplan is fantastic:  it supports HP-GL output for
plotters (which I use), and (claims to do) full printer resolution for
dot matrix (I just haven't tried this since I don't have a graphics
printer ;-).  It offers very good control of what actually goes into
a graph, and supports a few nice (internal) vector fonts for annotation.

If Plan/IT has been improved to this level, I'd sure like to hear about
it!!

On the other hand, I think Superplan has a really awful interface to
selecting options.  What particularly pops to mind is selection of
printers and entry of line widths, print density, page length, etc.
There seem to be unnecessary limits to what you can enter, and for
numeric entries, though you may want to update several, you get tossed
out of the "dialog" screen when you enter a number...  Also, I believe
Superplan was ported from a different (MS-DOS?) environment, and it
shows some of the remnants in the user interface :-(.

Overall, I like Superplan much better than MaxiPlan .. but that could
swing the other way if Plan/IT is really bug-free and has some
reasonable enhancements.
More later if I upgrade my MaxiPlan...