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From: Classic_-_Concepts@cup.portal.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.multimedia
Subject: Re: Pro Page relative merits
Message-ID: <42472@cup.portal.com>
Date: 19 May 91 02:09:11 GMT
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> I just bought Pro Page for business correspondence.  Excellent program!
> There is only one problem with it:
I'm amazed.  My gripe and grumble list is about 8 pages long.  But then if
I were only using it for business correspondence, perhaps I wouldn't
grumble.  I am, however, using it for desktop publishing.

It really saddens me that a market of such finicky folks (Amigans are
finicky about many, many things--I like that--setting high standards for
software, user interfaces, compatibility, etc.) are so accepting of the
current state of the art of desktop publishing on Amiga computers.

I still can't get enough productivity out of Pro Page to use it for my
clients' jobs, and I use it on a regular basis (I've had it since it came out
It still takes me 6 hours to do with Pro Page what I can accomplish  (without
cursing and tearing my hair out) in 2 hours with Pagemaker.  Just things like
sizing graphics boxes is so simple and intuitive in Pagemaker and so painful
(I resort to dragging out the calculator, or doing hit-and-miss, change-and
guess-and-change again) with Pro Page.
 
Seriously folks.  Am I the only one doing desktop publishing on the Amiga
commercially who has used dtp software extensively on other computers?  Is
this a case of people not knowing what they're missing?
 
                         Still baffled about this particular topic,
                                        Julie (LadyHawke)