Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!olivea!uunet!van-bc!outbound!patrick_meloy From: patrick_meloy@outbound.wimsey.bc.ca (Patrick Meloy) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications Subject: Re: Desktop Publishing Message-ID: Date: 28 Feb 91 17:54:53 GMT Organization: Outbound Communications Lines: 25 >>Ok.... what is the 'best' desktop publishing program for the Amiga? I have You will no doubt hear all sorts of things about PPage, Pagestream, Saxon, and PageMaker (On Amax). There is also one other option. Use the Atari ST Emulator and run Calamus SL (Boo Hiss Atari UGH!, there there is the flame so leave yours out please :) Calamus runs faster on a plain 1040ST than ANY of the other programs on 25 Mhz machines. I wouldn't doubt that running it on the ST Emulator would still be faster. The SL version has postscript and colour seperations too, so no probs there. If there is an Atari Dealer near you go take a peek at it, you may be quite suprised. Now, since I am a dedicated Amiga fan (gotta shotgun here for anyone that says I'm not :) Take a look at PPage, version 2.x finally has just about everything I can think of needing in a DTP package (with the exception of 'tiled' output). Gold disk has done a bang-up job of supporting the product, lots of upgrades and features with every new version. My only gripe is the speed and frequency of screen updates. Though I have found some neat tricks to speed things up. --------------------------------------- | patrick_meloy@outbound.wimsey.bc.ca | | 'The Outbound' BBS Vancouver BC | ---------------------------------------