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From: eas3714@isc.rit.edu (E.A. Story )
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: Re: When will new WordPerfect be available?
Message-ID: <1991Jan14.174429.9314@isc.rit.edu>
Date: 14 Jan 91 17:44:29 GMT
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Organization: Rochester Institute of Technology
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In article <1991Jan14.090123.15984@cs.umu.se> dvljhg@cs.umu.se (J|rgen Holmberg) writes:
>In article <1991Jan14.002805.1@ccvax.iastate.edu> taab5@ccvax.iastate.edu (Marc Barrett) writes:
>>
>>It is better named 'mediocrity!' because that is exactly what it is.  None
>>of the Amiga word processors (yes, I have tried them all) can even begin
>
>"I have tried them all" - Very impressive. Considering your vast experience
>I wouldn't dream of arguing with your conclusions. I would suggest trying
>new versions of those programs though. Prowrite 3.1 is a quite decent mid-
>range wp. The market for high-end wp and other expensive programs will grow
>for the amiga due to the price of the A3000. It is much easier to sell a
>program that costs less than the cpu. I won't keep you from testing more
>software now...
>
>/Jorgen

Just curious about Prowrite 3.1... DOes it have decent text output on a
dot matrix printer (9-pin).. I saw it on a friends computer and it
seemed that it could only get good text output by using the graphics
output of the printer.. really stupid and unacceptable.. not everyone
can afford to wait for 20 mins while it prints out a page of text.. and
its "Draft" mode using the printer's fonts didn't format well at all...
came out all screwed up... 

I think I'll stick to my myriad PD text editors until SOMETHING with
decent text output comes along.  There is a REASON printers have a text
mode... not everyone can afford a postscript or super 24-pin printer.

 				---Ezra




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"That's a rather moist turtle you have there!"
Ezra Story, a student at RIT, and
eas3714@isc.rit.edu, his mailing address.