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From: spage@cup.portal.com (S spage Page)
Newsgroups: comp.text.desktop
Subject: Re: Ventura Pub Gold 4 Windows update
Message-ID: <36157@cup.portal.com>
Date: 22 Nov 90 12:16:35 GMT
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Mr. Smith's comments are bang on, 100% correct.  Our production people
struggled with VP for Windows for two weeks before putting it back in  the
box  and going  back to VP  under  GEM.  They  also had Unrecoverable
Application Errors.  Their latest suspicion is that it's some kind of 
problem with the bitmap Windows fonts (it crashes whether or not ATM is
running).

What we're going to do is run VP Gold GEM edition from Windows.  With 8MB,
you gain multitasking, and the product WORKS.  It's a shame to abandon
windows, because the Windows version has better keyboard shortcuts and 
fixes some of the absurd limitations of VP's separate paragraph and text 
modes, but we too have found that VP for windows DOESN'T WORK.

If you have the VP for Windows version and are having problems, call VSI
and **DEMAND** that they ship you the GEM version as a workaround.

Everything I've seen in my brief exposure to VP has contributed to my
sense that Frame Maker is VP done right, with a host of added features.  I
hope Frame does a Windows port,  though I doubt it.  We got a demo copy of
Frame Maker for the Mac...

=S