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From: jwi@lzfme.att.com (Jim Winer @ AT&T, Middletown, NJ)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Desktop Publishers???
Summary: You already have what you need
Message-ID: <1496@lzfme.att.com>
Date: 19 Jul 89 18:23:47 GMT
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> Robert Johnson writes:

> I need some help.  Our department at work has been producing ~200
> page manuals recently.  All of the work is done on computers (graphics
> on Lotus Freelance, and Harvard Graphics, and text on CEO (a word
> processing package on the Data General that I can download into
> wordperfect 5.0).  The only problem is that to combine the two, we are
> resorting to cutting and pasting the finished product together.  This, 
> I feel, is rather pointless, and have begun looking into a good
> desktop publisher.  Briefely, this is what I need:
>  
>         1) Capability for >150pg documents.
>         2) Lotus Freelance & Harvard Graphics compatability.
>         3) Word Perfect compatibility (need I ask for this?!)
>         4) Ease of use.

Unless there is something you are not telling us, WordPerfect 5.0
will do what you want all by itself, or with the addition of Hijaak
for file format translation. It has excellent desktop publishing
features.

> I think that #4 is the real stickler here.  I have looked into Ventura,
> and it definately does not addapt itself to ease of use from what I have
> seen.  Are there any other programs out there that do what I need?
> How about GEM/3 Desktop Publisher?  I need a braod survey of what's
> out there so I can make a good recomendation.

Ventura is not hard to use. It requires that you think like a layout
artist. That can be accomplished with some training. The trick is to
get training on layout rather than on Ventura. (You will need
Ventura training too.) The same applies to using WordPerfect 5.0 for
desktop publishing -- you need training in both layout and
WordPerfect.

If you can provide a USPS mail address, I will send you some info. I
can't usually email successfully outside AT&T.

Jim Winer ..!lzfme!jwi (201 899-0804eve/201 957-6068day)

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