Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!lll-winken!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!usc!orion.oac.uci.edu!balboa.eng.uci.edu!nguyent From: nguyent@balboa.eng.uci.edu (Thien Nguyen) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications Subject: Re: Desktop Publishing Message-ID: <27CF6396.27895@orion.oac.uci.edu> Date: 2 Mar 91 08:34:30 GMT References: Organization: University of California, Irvine Lines: 40 Nntp-Posting-Host: balboa.eng.uci.edu In article patrick_meloy@outbound.wimsey.bc.ca (Patrick Meloy) writes: >>>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. Hmmm... I like to see the UNDO feature on the PPage 2.x. I have used both and I keep going back to Page Stream 2.x. Both are really slow even on the A3000. I like to see Microsoft Word for the Amiga. Even though I have 2 Amigas A1000 and A3000, I have to use Amax when I want to write proposals, and report papers. Nothing in the Amiga world come close to Microsoft Word 4.0. Anybody out there used Amax II with Laser Jet II compatible printers? What kind of printer driver are you using, and how is the performance? > >--------------------------------------- >| patrick_meloy@outbound.wimsey.bc.ca | >| 'The Outbound' BBS Vancouver BC | >---------------------------------------