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From: sysop@stech.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: MAC Plus or MAC SE? and other questions
Message-ID: <128@stech.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 16-Aug-87 06:30:53 EDT
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Posted: Sun Aug 16 06:30:53 1987
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Organization: Scholastech, Inc., Waltham, Mass.
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in article <466@rover.UUCP>, fred@rover.UUCP (Fred Christiansen) says:
> 
> 
> i'm free-lance publishing some books for deaf children (with a little
> financial assistance from a charitable organization), hence there's
> considerable line art (sketches of signs).  so i need to build up a
> library of clip art, be able to scan images, edit the scans, merge two
> or more images, create fonts (to do page numbers in sign 8-) ), and produce
> camera ready copy (probably on LaserWriter, vs. PMT).
> 
> anybody into desktop publishing?  recommendations on what to purchase?
> i've seen brief demos of Aldus PageMaker and Adobe Illustrator (cost
> is an ouch!  maybe SuperPaint is better?).  is the cost difference
> between an SE and a Plus modest enough to really recommend the SE? (i'm
> getting shy of the SE after the reported problems)  how does ThunderScan
> compare to others?  would it do the job?
> 


Two general recommendations.  First, go with the SE.  Since you will be
doing a fair amount of desktop publishing, you will eventually want to add
a larger monitor.  (Trust me, you will ...)  Since the SE has that
expansion slot, it is much easier to add a full-page display than it is to
add one to the Plus.  Also, go for the SE with the 20 Meg hard drive; 
floppies will drive you crazy after a while, since desktop publishing files
tend to get large (the art does it).

Second, look at a new desktop publishing program called Scoop.  I saw it at
the MacWorld expo.  Though I own both Ready Set Go and PageMaker, I think
I'll dump both of them for Scoop.  Why?  Because Scoop includes a full
graphics package. You can manipulate bit-mapped graphics at either 300
or 72 dpi.  Objects can be turned into bit maps for modification, and then
back to objects.  Graphics can be rotated in 1 degree increments.  I only
wish Scoop had been available earlier; it could have saved me a _lot_ of
work, since I have to re-do some of the figures in a 400 page book before the
second printing.

Jan Harrington, sysop
Scholastech Telecommunications
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