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From: briand@tekig4.UUCP (Brian Diehm)
Newsgroups: net.micro.mac
Subject: Re: MacPublisher II comments
Message-ID: <886@tekig4.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 22-Aug-86 17:26:33 EDT
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Posted: Fri Aug 22 17:26:33 1986
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Reply-To: briand@tekig4.UUCP (Brian Diehm)
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Organization: Tektronix, Inc., Beaverton, OR.
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>About a week ago, I went out and bought MacPublisher II and Mac Designs for
>
>So, what do I think?  Neat!  None of the Layout programs stand alone -- you
>still need a WP to do your writing, and your graphic tools.  But when the
>look of the words starts to be as important as the words themselves, these
>things are a critical resource.
>
>All in all, I'm quite impressed.  Are there any other MPII users out there
>who want to compare notes?

I too got MacPub II after looking at RSG. I discarded PageMaker because of 1)
Price (I couldn't justify that much) and 2) rumored grumblings about their
upgrade and service policies costing mucho MORE bucks.

Under system 3.1.1 I kept getting Bomb Box 25 on my 512K HFS system.  Problem
fixed under system 3.2.  Later I noticed in the manual that they admit this
rather graceless exit in case of running out of RAM! Fortunately, they have an
auto-save mode that saves each change as you go, so I lost nothing. Unfor-
tunately, unless you turn off auto-save, you can't undo changes!

For the price, the product is very impressive. Incidentally, one of our
graphics-arts people tried it and didn't like it, preferring Just Text, a page
layout based on cryptic codes familiar only to professional typesetters.  You
buy 'em Macs and you buy 'em Macs, and they just chew on the IBMs. . .

-Brian Diehm
Tektronix, Inc. (SDA - Standard Disclaimers Apply)