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Subject: geoPublish!
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Date: Thu, 17-Sep-87 13:39:23 EDT
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Keywords: Details from the Horses mouth, And a question about the 1764


I thought that other geos users would be interested in John's reply to my
inquiry. So it is reprinted here. 

John, let me commend you and your company on an excellent program (Geos). 
GeosWrite has become the wordprocessor of choise around my house! 

We love the fonts, the detail of the graphics are great on my printer, I even 
found a way (though somewhat cumbersome), to transfer my digitized pictures to
geoPaint, and geoWrite documents. geoPublish is right up my alley!  

While I have your attention, tell me about the 1764 memory expander. Does it
allow me to load desktop, geoWrite, geoPaint,etc into it and then operate as
if from a hard disk? Or does it only allow you to do bigger documents all at
once instead of running out of memory and having to do muliple doucuments
(like a term paper of 10 pages, 5 in each document 'cause of memory
constraints?).

Thanks for the info and keep up the good work!!

Date: Wed, 16 Sep 87 20:48:44 PST
From: uw-beaver!ames!ll-xn!ames!ucbcad!cory.BERKELEY.EDU!wedgwood (John C. 
Wedgwood) 
Message-Id: <8709170448.AA19956@cory.Berkeley.EDU>
To: fluke!logden
Subject: Re: geoPublish!
Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
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Organization: University of California, Berkeley
Cc: 
Status: R

You are going to love this program.

I work at BSW so I think that I have the scoop on publish.

It is currently getting ready for the last round of testing. The engineers
involved with the project are working extremeley long hours to get this
out soon. What we are hoping is that we can get it duplicated and to
distributors by the middle of October (no promises here, the program is
so complex that it might take longer to debug).

It is so good even I have a hard time believing it.
It does huge fonts, columns, graphics that can be stretched and smoothed.
Multiple pages, lines, connected lines, splines, ellipses, flowing of
text around graphics (actually around the bounding rectangle for a
graphic), Text in patterns, opaque and transparent graphic objects (so
you can put text over a gray background...)

The possibilities are endless. (In case you can't tell I love this product).

Hope we can get it to you soon.

-wedge-