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From: baumgart@esquire.dpw.com (Steve Baumgarten)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: Design Studio problem
Keywords: Design Studio problems
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Date: 2 Oct 90 16:24:53 GMT
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In-reply-to: tgl@g.gp.cs.cmu.edu (Tom Lane)

In article <10620@pt.cs.cmu.edu>, tgl@g.gp (Tom Lane) writes:
>Yeah?  We eventually gave up on DesignStudio and went back to ReadySetGo.
>We found DS to be almost unusable, and 1.01 didn't improve matters at all.
>The only symptom that I still recall is failure to refresh parts of the
>screen ... trying to use a scroll bar you can't see is no fun.
>
>It occurs to me that I have not tried DS again since moving to system 6.0.5.
>What system configuration are you using?

I use it under 6.0.5 on a IIfx with an Apple Two-Page display and
Apple 8.24 video card.  Certainly if programs are going to crash, they
do it running under that kind of configuration, given that 32-bit QD
is in ROM and whatnot.  But I haven't had any problems since turning
off Boomerang, and I've made fairly heavy use of it (though I haven't
created long documents with it yet).  I run ATM and TypeAlign along
with it, and haven't had any crashes I could trace to DesignStudio.

There are times when the screen won't completely refresh, but I've
never lost the scroll bars or anything.  A quick scroll with the hand
tool usually fixes things, and it doesn't happen very often.  You
should give it another try, and if it doesn't work, bitch and moan at
Letraset, since otherwise you spent $75 on a pretty worthless upgrade.

Other than the fact that I'm in hierarchical menu hell whenever I use
the program, I like it.

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