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From: tucker@tahoe.unr.edu (Aaron Tucker)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: Re: Desktop Publishing
Keywords: desktop publishing ppage pagestream
Message-ID: <5633@tahoe.unr.edu>
Date: 26 Feb 91 23:25:30 GMT
References: <12500@bsu-cs.bsu.edu>
Organization: University of Nevada-Reno
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In article <12500@bsu-cs.bsu.edu> jennifer@bsu-cs.bsu.edu (Jennifer Freeman) writes:
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>Ok....  what is the 'best' desktop publishing program for the Amiga?  I have
>heard PageStream and Prof. Page both mentioned locally, as well as get Amax
>and run PageMaker.   What opinions are out there on this?

Well, is Nike better than Reebok? Tough question. I suppose it matters who
is wearing the shoe.

I like Professional Page because I am used to it. It was the first DTP package
I learned and am very familiar with it. It has its limitations of course, like
those gawdawful text boxes. But, it is a very solid program and has good
support both from Gold Disk and other third party vendors.

Pagestream is supposed to be real good. I used a friends v1.8 for a while, but
it was really buggy and atrocious to work with. I have heard that the latest
version is excellent however, and even allows editing of ProDraw clips. That
is a neat trick. 

Of course both support 24bit IFF files, and I think that Pagestream supports
TIFF files directly also. Both support EPSF and Pdraw clips, and PPage
supports Aegis Draw 2000 files also, if I remember right.

Of course there is always Pagemaker. But, you are going to have to buy
AMAX II ($120?), 128K ROMS ($200), Pagemaker ($550) and a Mac Drive ($200).
You might as well just buy an accelerator for your machine and enjoy the
speed. Pagemaker is the DTP standard (No matter what QuarkXPress users say.)
It is used by most if not all printing services for PCs.

Saxon Publisher is starting to make some noise also. I haven't used it, but
it looks nice. Anybody have any experience with this one?

Just make sure the package you get if it is not one of the above has 
POSTSCRIPT support, so you can send your file to a beareau for high
quality output.


Juan Trevino