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From: perley@trub (Donald P Perley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: Re: Anyone Seen the New WordPerfect?
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Date: 21 Feb 91 20:50:49 GMT
References: <1991Feb14.023306.6105@hoss.unl.edu> <1991Feb14.180710.25606@portia.Stanford.EDU>
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In-reply-to: bard@jessica.stanford.edu (David Hopper)

In article <1991Feb14.180710.25606@portia.Stanford.EDU>, bard@jessica (David Hopper) writes:

>This update is a piece of cr*p.  WP should either 1) commit to full-time
>support of the Amiga, or 2) at least commit to a decent support for the
>existing version.  The Amiga has a 'bastard son' image over there that just
>doesn't cut it.  I mean, I don't want them to think that they HAVE to support
>the Amiga. ;-)

I just got a newsletter from WP.  It had a lot of space touting the advantages
of using WP under a GUI (graphical user interface), but didn't mention
amiga as one of their versions running under a GUI.

I spent a little time trying to use the previewer.  The first thing I noticed
is that there isn't a horizontal scroll bar, so you can't preview the
right edge of a page.  The "50% manification" on the menu is disabled
unless you have the 2.0 operating system, so you can't even view the page
with "greeked" letters.

If anyone knows an easy way around this, like maybe a 4 point font(?), please
post.

-don perley
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perley@trub.crd.ge.com