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From: hades@icefloe.dartmouth.edu (Brian V. Hughes)
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Subject: Re: Desktop publishing
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Date: 25 Mar 91 16:54:52 GMT
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jdr@sloth.mlb.semi.harris.com (Jim Ray) writes:

>We have a group that is interrested in upgrading their current
>publishing capabilities ( currently using Mac's ).  They are
>interrested in using frame on a couple of Next's and the existing
>Mac's to put out black and white glossies.

>Management has decided ( with their PC wizzard ) that MAC's and Next
>( and for that matter any computer other than a PC ) are not acceptable.
>Instead they have come up with an alternative proposal ( about 200k
>more expensive ) using PC's exclusively.

>Now to my questions:

  [ Other Questions Deleted ]

>6) What features on MAC's and Next's that would be superior to PC's
>given a publishing orientation.

    I think that I can sum this question up the best out of all of them:
WYSIWYG.  This is probably the single most important advantage of the Mac and
Next over PC type machines(not counting the GUI).
    I wasn't going to replay to this initially but I thought that this question
was one of the more pertinent ones. As for some of the others, when it comes to
Desktop Publishing, the mac helped invent it. Before the macintosh publishing
had to be done professionally because there were no programs out to allow you
to effectively work with a page on an object level. Thats all I have to say on
the matter. Later.

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