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From: dcox@ssd.kodak.com (Don Cox (253-7121))
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Desktop Publishing/Technical Report Software
Message-ID: <1990Nov19.131952.7762@ssd.kodak.com>
Date: 19 Nov 90 13:19:52 GMT
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In article <1990Nov18.014103.20227@pegasus.com> richard@pegasus.com (Richard Foulk) writes:
>
<<Interleaf -- a very good DP package for technical stuff, is available under
<<Ultrix and X11.  You should check it.
<
<Unless it's changed since I evaluated it (about a year ago, on a Sun),
<Interleaf has got one of the most god-awful user interfaces known to man.
<
<Menued to death (six or eight deep, maybe more), poorly organized, and
<very error-prone.  I tested it on a medium size project and had someone
<else do the same to get two opinions.  We both hated it.  Framemaker
<was a god-send after that.
<

I have to totally agree with the above comments. 

It was a pleasure installing FrameMaker in a matter of minutes after
wrestling with Interleaf for hours in the past.  

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                  Don Cox
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