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Subject: MacPublisher
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Date: Tue, 5-Feb-85 03:49:20 EST
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From: Jim Nisbet <niz@Lindy>

I just saw a demo of MacPublisher, a program designed to do electronic
newsletter composition.  It does let you layout 1, 2 or 3 column pages and
use "scissors" to cut up the individual articles.  It replaces cut-and-paste
with the electronic equivalent.

It's strengths are that it is very visual, and it allows EASY combinations
of pictures and text.  Also, it seemed that it wasen't buggy (after an 
hour and a half of playing with it).

The biggest weakness for me was the inability to mix different fonts in the
same article.  You can't even italicize a word without making the word a 
separate article!  Or at least I couldn't figure out how to do it.

The other weakness was the lack of a function similar to the finder's ICON
"clean up" capability.  I couldn't figure out how to get it to automatically
break a long article into multiple columns.  Instead, I have to do it 
"manually" with the scissors.  

MacPublisher is written by Boston Software Publishers (617-327-5775) and 
cost $99.  It has very recently been released--I couldn't find it at our
local computer store.  Has anyone used it for making newsletters?  Any
reactions??

Also, are there similar products?  At the Apple Shareholder's meeting they
used a program called "PageMaker" (???) -- has anyone seen/used/heard-rumors
about that software?

/j