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From: leonardr@svc.portal.com (Leonard Rosenthol)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: Presentation software (Persuasion?)
Message-ID: <1990Oct9.044854.27355@svc.portal.com>
Date: 9 Oct 90 04:48:54 GMT
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In article <15215@burdvax.PRC.Unisys.COM>, dave@PRC.Unisys.COM (David Lee
Matuszek) writes:
> 
> [Persuasion and the MacPlus/B&W]
> 1.  Will Persuasion run on a B&W machine like the MacPlus?
> 
	It should.  In fact, when I worked on the development team for the
original version (1.0), I was working on an old Levco Monster Mac.  It worked
just fine back then, I assume that it still does.

> 2.  If Persuasion runs, can we make use of its color capabilities
> (even though we obviously won't be able to see them on screen)?  If
> so, can we choose colors by name, so that we have some vague idea of
> what we're doing?
> 
	Again, last time I checked you were able to by choosing the colors
by name, but only use the ones that you have 'defined'.  You can not use
just ANY color on a B&W machine, but you can use the 'named' colors.

> 3.  Does it produce color postscript?  Maybe this is the wrong
> question--if we get a color printer, can we print whatever it is that
> Persuasion produces?
> 
	Yes.  It prints just fine on color printers.  I have tried it on
the QMS ColorScript (Postscript) and the Tektronics ColorQuick (QuickDraw)
and it works just fine on both.  It also works with slide printers as well.

> 4.  Does anyone have any reason to suppose that another presentation
> package would be better than Persuasion at meeting the above needs?
> 
	I would suggest Persuasion, but then again I am biased ;-)

Disclaimer: As mentioned above, I was part of the original Persuasion team,
but I was payed off long ago and get ABSOLUTELY NOTHING from Aldus. 
--
Leonard Rosenthol
Software Ventures Corp.
MicroPhone II Development Team