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From: jfr@locus.com (Jon Rosen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.wanted,comp.sys.mac.misc,comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: Why does Mac output not look as good as LaTex?
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Date: 21 May 91 04:39:13 GMT
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In article <20081@cs.utexas.edu> turpin@cs.utexas.edu (Russell Turpin) writes:
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>I notice that my papers, produced with Word 4.0 and printed on a
>good laserwriter, do not look as good as papers produced with LaTex
>on Unix boxes.  Looking closer, what I discovered is that the
>individual characters are fine, but that their spacing (under
>Microsoft Word 4.0) leaves much to be desired.  Adjacent characters
><stuff deleted>
>Does anyone have a good solution to this?  Are there better fonts


Try Framemaker on the Mac.  It is significantly better at handling
intercharacter/interword spacing and kerning.  It handles up to .1 point
in sizing fonts and this capability works well with most fonts on
300dpi Postscript printers.  Frame also is better at tables of contents,
indexes and a lot of other very important capabilities.  It also has
builtin graphics editor which is very handy and it has things like
anchored frames which allow illustrations and annotations to be 
connected to text either in or outside of the body flow and to move
along with the text as you add more text.  It contains MUCH of what
is in Pagemaker, although its runarounds are pretty poor (much like
the original Pagemaker 1.0 had..)  

All in all, I think Pagemaker is the ultimate all-in-one desktop
publishing product out today.  It is easy enough to use for letters,
sophisticated enough to use for large documents, fanyc enought
for newsletters and some advertising layout.  Its printing in
Postscript is excellent.  
 
Jon
(I have NO relationship to Frame, just a satisfied user)