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From: es1@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Ethan Solomita)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: PageStream
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Date: 6 Mar 91 17:07:31 GMT
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In article <746@tnc.UUCP> m0154@tnc.UUCP (GUY GARNETT) writes:
>
>I have been an Amiga PageStream owner for the beginning.  Releases
>before v1.8 were definitely unusable due to bugs.  *BUT* v1.8 has been
>out for more than a year now, and v2.1 has been around for several
>months.  If you have not used these versions, go back and look at
>PageStream again.  A number of new facilities has been added, and
>the bugs have been roundly stomped.
>

	You must have a different 2.1 than I do! PageStream has a
lot of excellent features and is very easy to use. But it most
certainly still has bugs. I've had it crash (i.e. guru) twice on
me when I switched from the pointer to text tool. Rotation is
fine if you do absolutely nothing to the object while it is
rotated. There are various and random bugs all over. The most
annoying things are trying to set things like font and text and
when the requestor pops up it doesn't tell you accurately what
font they are in now.
	Its font support is excellent, I just wish it handled
Adobe fonts a bit quicker. Also, the redraw could definitely use
some improvement. When I scroll, it clears the whole screen and
redraws from scratch rather than moving whatever piece of the
screen is still there and redrawing only the new.

	-- Ethan


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