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From: tom@mims-iris.uucp (Tom Haapanen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Desktop Publishers???
Message-ID: <3223@watale.waterloo.edu>
Date: 25 Jul 89 12:44:23 GMT
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Kathleen Creighton <casey@well.UUCP> writes:

> 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.

We have been using Ventura for over a year for all kinds of stuff, including
some 100-page manuals.  If I were to decide now, I think I'd go with
PageMaker instead, mainly for the following reasons:
	- PageMaker uses Windows instead of GEM.  We have a number of
	  packages using Windows, and it'd be nice to have a consistent
	  environment.
	- Ventura is *STUPID* and saves absolute pathnames in files.  This
	  makes it a royal pain to move your files to another directory,
	  another disk, or worse yet, another machine.  DUMB!
However, I'm not that familiar with the _PC_ PageMaker, it could have
some serious problems, too.  Can someone tell me what disadvantages
PageMaker has as compared to Ventura, if any?  (mail, please...)

					\tom haapanen
"now, you didn't really expect          tom@mims-iris.waterloo.edu
 my views to have anything to do        watmims research group
 with my employer's, did you?"          university of waterloo