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From: casey@well.UUCP (Kathleen Creighton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Desktop Publishers???
Message-ID: <12803@well.UUCP>
Date: 21 Jul 89 11:53:17 GMT
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Reply-To: casey@well.UUCP (Kathleen Creighton)
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I *also* use WordPerfect 5.0 for dtp, but I came very close to losing an
almost-finished 16-page newsletter (the file had become corrupted) which
was saved through sheer luck after an hour's work by a tech friend of
mine.  So I have so many caveats for using WP 5.0 for dtp that you might
as well bite the bullet and go with Ventura.  I know how *I* would proceed
with a 150-page manual in WP 5.0 (saving the original ASCII files, then
copying them for every single operation, such as editing, after that), but
I think that's entirely too much work for a project of this size.

The fundamental problem of WP 5.0 is that you *never know* where, when or
how a file is corrupted.  So take the easy way out and skip it.