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From: chuq%plaid@Sun.COM (Chuq Von Rospach)
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Subject: Re: PageMaker 2.0 for mac
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Date: Tue, 19-May-87 12:11:01 EDT
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From: kumar@hpcea.HP.COM (Arvind Kumar)
Date: 15 May 87 19:01:31 GMT
Organization: HP Corporate Engineering - Palo Alto, CA

Thanks for introducing Ventura to this news/notesgroup.  I had been
reading it since its inception, and was frankly quite disappointed by
the absence of any discussion/awareness of Ventura.  Since I am not a
Xerox employee, I can speak about Ventura Publisher without having to
add disclaimers, etc.

For the money, it is the best desktop publishing program on the market.
I have used Pagemaker and was appalled at how difficult it is to make
changes.  PM assumes that you have the whole publication laid out, text
and graphics, before you sit down to use it.  Changes to document text
and layout are hard to make without redoing a lot of the work.

Ventura's style sheets are a blessing.  So is its concept of not
duplicating text - any changes you make to text in Ventura get written
out to their original files.  I publish an 8 to 16 page newspaper each
month where I have to make many changes at the last minute.  I would
not be doing it if I had to use Pagemaker.

I'm sure there are better, more powerful programs, but you can't beat
Ventura at $699 (Fry's Electronics, Sunnyvale).  I hear they are
working on a version for the Mac.

Arvind "A very satisfied user" Kumar
  kumar@hplabs.hp.com

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