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From: sritchie@cs.ubc.ca (Stuart Ritchie)
Subject: Re: imperfections in WordPerfect?
Message-ID: <1991Apr29.202315.13781@cs.ubc.ca>
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Organization: Computer Science, University of B.C., Vancouver, B.C., Canada
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Date: Mon, 29 Apr 91 20:23:15 GMT

I haven't played with the Math stuff, so I can't comment on that.

But I have tried printing, and boy is it slow.  I'd say it's
about 10 times slower than printing from any other program.
And that doesn't include graphics.  On the 8MB slab I use,
printing a 5 page document drove the load up beyond 6.00.  And
it seemed to take forever.

Also, on some occasions, it has printed duplicate pages, out of
order pages and does strange stuff with graphics sometimes.  For
example, I had a page with an EPS graphic imported from Diagram.
The page was printed without the graphic, followed by the graphic
on its own blank page.  And then pages that already had been
printed started coming out.

One time I was notified of PostScript errors.  I this case, the
document also had an EPS graphic included.  Without the graphic,
the document printed fine.  And within Diagram, the graphic printed
fine.  Putting them together in WordPerfect produced flakey PS code.
And what's worse -- I was unable to duplicate the problem.

Despite these problems I have experienced, I will definitely
continue to use the program.  For my use, the graphics capabilities
alone are worth it over WriteNow.

Maybe they're bugs, or maybe I'm just out in left field.

..Stuart