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From: jbn35564@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (J.B. Nicholson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: NeXT-bashing party & Stay Away from Gold Disk
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Date: 20 Mar 91 07:30:18 GMT
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In <55497@sequent.UUCP> cseaman@sequent.UUCP (Chris "The Bartman" Seaman) writes:

>yorkw@stable.ecn.purdue.edu (Willis F York) writes:
>
>[ Sorry, no attribution line available on this quote ]

That was my quote.

>First, let me say that I haven't used Professional Page.  However, when
>I used to use PageMaker on the PC, there was no way to do this either.
>What you could do (and I believe the manual recommended) was to create
>a blank document, which contained your preferences, and use that as a
>template for future documents (it's a kludge, I know, but it got the job
>done).  I assume this would work with Pro Page, since Pro Draw, also by
>Gold Disk, does save all of your preferences with a folio.  I find this
>to actually be more flexible, at least for what I use it for.

I had to do it that was with PPage also, but I don't like having to load in
a document to get some preferences set that don't directly affect only that
document.  For example, if I have the screen colors set the way I like them,
and then save the "Empty" document and force PPage to always load up document
"Empty" whenever I call up PPage w/o a file argument, things work fine.  But
when I call up PPage with a file argument, the colors will probably not be
my favorites.  If I had an external file (like a s:ppage.defaults) in which 
to save these preferences, I would not only have to go through the trouble of
calling up the "Empty" document every time, but I would also be able to load
up any other document and merely say 'Revert to default prefs' and *poof*
my favorite colors are back and I'm still editing the document I want.

>-- 
>Chris (Insert phrase here) Seaman |    ___-/^\-___          qatul batlh.
>cseaman@sequent.com <or>          |  //__--\O/--__\\        qatul Huch.
>...!uunet!sequent!cseaman         | //             \\       qatul roj.
>The Home of the Killer Smiley     | `\             /'
                                                             ^^^^^^^^^^^^-I'm
                                                             just curious;
                                                             what does this
                                                             mean?

Jeff
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