Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!rutgers!ames!oliveb!sun!plaid!chuq From: chuq%plaid@Sun.COM (Chuq Von Rospach) Newsgroups: comp.text.desktop Subject: Re: PageMaker 2.0 for mac Message-ID: <19667@sun.uucp> Date: Tue, 26-May-87 11:56:57 EDT Article-I.D.: sun.19667 Posted: Tue May 26 11:56:57 1987 Date-Received: Thu, 28-May-87 02:14:35 EDT Sender: news@sun.uucp Distribution: comp Lines: 67 Approved: desktop-request%plaid@sun.com From: yale!hsi!burns@seismo.CSS.GOV (Jeff Burns) Summary: PageMaker & Ventura versus QUARK XPRESS a new challenger? Date: 21 May 87 17:13:30 GMT Organization: Health Systems Intl., New Haven, CT I am also looking for page layout software and came across Quark Xpress in my research. MACUSER Magazine (May 1987) gives a glowing "5-mouse" review to Quark Xpress. I quote: Quark Xpress is a superb product that represents a major step forward in the evolution of desktop publishing. Developed by a company in Denver previously known for a few very high quality software products on Apple IIs and IIIs, Xpress is light-years ahead of where desktop publishing was a year ago. ... Xpress makes true, professional quality page layout easy. Other page layout programs let you work in typefaces from 0 to 127 points (a limitation set within QuickDraw). Xpress has a range from 0 to 500 point typefaces, in 1-point increments. Xpress contains a full-featured word processor with built-in spell checking, manual or automatic hyphenation and an exeptional dictionary. ... Graphics are displayed in boxes, with either square, rounded corner, circular, or oval shapes. Text flows automatically around a picture box -- move the picture someplace else and the text automatically adjusts. Boxes can be transparent ... text can wrap around the shape of a graphic itself, or continue to conform to the box. Graphics can be imported from MacPaint, -PICT or TIFF files, but the program has the built in ability to draw lines, arrows and frames. ... You can pipeline text from one area to another, with tag lines that let you know where the text went. Simply type in your tag and a command key for "Next Page." The tag line will register the correct page number of the continuation text. A similar tag "From page ..." can be added at the beginning of the continuation box. The page references are relative--if either portion of the pipelined text is moved, the tag lines automatically update to show the correct placement. ... Xpress is a real find and a very good value at $695. ----------------------------------- Sounds great, doesn't it? I look forward to seeing a demo. Does anyone on the net currently use Xpress? -------------------------------------------- FORTUNE OF THE DAY: He was so narrow minded he could look through a key hole with both eyes. ---------------------------------------- Submissions to: desktop%plaid@sun.com -OR- sun!plaid!desktop Administrivia to: desktop-request%plaid@sun.com -OR- sun!plaid!desktop-request Paths: {ihnp4,decwrl,hplabs,seismo,ucbvax}!sun Chuq Von Rospach chuq@sun.COM [I don't read flames] There is no statute of limitations on stupidity