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From: howeird@hpwrce.HP.COM (Howard Stateman)
Newsgroups: comp.text.desktop
Subject: Re: WordPerfect vs. Ventura
Message-ID: <7650014@hpwrce.HP.COM>
Date: 5 Sep 89 20:39:39 GMT
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cetron@wasatch.utah.edu (Edward J Cetron) writes:

	>On a related topic:  I have a subcontractor who has just informed
>me that all of their technical documentation will be late, the cause:
>
	>All of their techwriters use Wordperfect, but their corporate office 
>requires that all docs coming out the of the corp to be in Ventura.  So now
>I have a 4-10 week delay (so they say) to have all of the documents ported
>from WP to Ventura after they are written/proofed etc....

Your subcontractor's problem is one of bureaucracy, not one of technical
capabilities. Once the WordPerfect document is proofed, it can be brought
into Ventura in a matter of seconds. His delay is caused, most likely,
by having to find someone with Ventura, trying to get that person to 
allow him to put the file into Ventura, and maybe getting the diskettes
to do this. 

Tell your subcontractor to spend the $$ for a copy of Ventura, put it
on one of his techwriters' PC's, and assign that techwriter to be
the import guru for the department. It is well worth the investment,
and also will give him "local control" of the final product.

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