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From: ppblais@bcars267.UUCP (Pierre P. Blais)
Subject: Re: Desktop publishing for X
Message-ID: <1990Aug10.193250.16544@bcars267>
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Reply-To: ppblais@bcars267.UUCP (Pierre P. Blais)
Organization: Bell-Northern Research, Ottawa, Canada
References: <1990Aug9.064602.23310@athena.mit.edu> 
Date: Fri, 10 Aug 90 19:32:50 GMT

In article <1990Aug9.064602.23310@athena.mit.edu>,
ben_wen@w20-575-98.world (Benson Wen) writes:
> 
> (Hmmm.  Lets see if this works.)
> 
> I'm looking into Desktop Publishing systems that will run under X, anyone?
> 
> (Please E-mail, since I'm a bum and don't read News enough.)
> 
> -Benson Wen


Other people requested a post.  Well, here it goes:

    The Publisher runs under X11R4 (and previous) and Sun W/Ss. It may
run on other platforms.  You can get more information from:

    ArborText Inc.
    535 West William St.
    Ann Arbor, MI 48103

    (313) 996-3566
    help@arbortext.com
    uunet!umix!arbortext!help


And now, for the disclaimer:

    The Publisher is about halfway between a WYSIWYG and a tag-based
interface.  This is very useful since your document is never automa-
tically formatted for a specific printer or paper format.  A previewer
allows you to look at the document on your W/S before/instead of prin-
ting it.

    On the other hand, it is quite buggy although it can still be used
reasonably well (the bugs don't kill what I'm doing too often).

    Over all, once the bugs are fixed, it should prove to be a very
good product.

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