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From: fyl@ssc.UUCP (Phil Hughes)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: What DTP package ?
Message-ID: <572@ssc.UUCP>
Date: 21 Mar 90 23:38:35 GMT
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Organization: SSC, Inc., Seattle, WA
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In article <4224@cbnewsj.ATT.COM>, jwi@cbnewsj.ATT.COM (Jim Winer @ AT&T, Middletown, NJ) writes:

> So get a MAC with Quark Express or a PC with Ventura and forget about
> Framemaker and Interleaf.

I agree with what you said and now have Ventura (and troff and ...).
What I need now is the right graphics package.  I have played with Adobe
Illustrator.  It is overkill and a resource hog.  I expect some of this
problem is due to running under windows but it is still too big and too
slow.

My requirements are fairly simple.  Technical illustrations (we publish
books on C and UNIX) but no funny drawings, curves and such.  I am about
to trade Illustrator for GEM-draw to check it out but would appreciate any
experience others have.

In passing, the February issue of Small Press has a decent article on
selecting a DTP program.  The April issue (which isn't out yet) is
supposed to cover selecting a graphics package.
-- 
Phil Hughes, SSC, Inc. P.O. Box 55549, Seattle, WA 98155  (206)FOR-UNIX
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