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From: derek@coco2.albany.edu (Cinderella Man)
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Subject: Re: IBM been goowy for along tyme
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Date: 10 Feb 91 01:27:18 GMT
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In article <1991Feb9.035631.15285@gsm001.uucp> gsm@gsm001.uucp (Geoffrey S.
Mendelson) writes:
>There is a package for the IBM pc called Ventura Publisher.  It is marketed
>by Xerox. Ventura has a "good" GUI interface.  As a desktop publisher,
>it IMHO beats the pants of of both Quark Xpress, and Pagemaker.
>It is now available for the Mac.  We should see some sparks fly soon.

        I've used Ventura Publisher on a 33MHz '386, and while it does
have its good points, I'd take Mac PageMaker or XPress over it any day.
I don't like its treatment of "frames" or its graphic and text handling.
However, it IS better at doing standardized layouts than those programs,
and I love the way it treats document files, imports and exports.

        I haven't seen the Mac version yet, but I assume its text and
graphics capabilities are improved over the PC.  It should also be MUCH
faster on the Mac.  You're right, we might see sparks...

>|  Geoffrey S. Mendelson  |  Computer Software Consulting    |    Dr.      |

                                                    Derek L.
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