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From: schwager@uiucdcsm.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Another silly ad idea (sorry)
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Date: Thu, 19-Nov-87 13:47:00 EST
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Posted: Thu Nov 19 13:47:00 1987
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...edited...
>     job done.   I found this out a number of ways having access to both
>     machines, but the one test that scared me to death was when I tried to 
>     make a map and anouncement to my house (i.e. drawings with text) I had
>     a very difficult time doing it on my Amiga and I had no problem doing it
>     on the MAC. (I do not have impact or ageis draw, this may be the problem).
> 
>     FLAME REPELLANT ON
> 			  Brian McRae
> 			  Boeing Aerospace
> 
> /* End of text from uiucdcsm:comp.sys.amiga */

No flames here; but could you take that stuff off?  It stinks :-)

Hmmm... what were you using?  If you don't mind black and white or
gray-scale, then perhaps you had trouble.  However, I have PageSetter
and really really like it.  Just go into graphics edit mode, draw a
pretty picture.  Then go back to the page, write the picture into a box.
Include any text you need, maybe using font Diamond in point size 20.
I don't have any really huge fonts; kind of a disappointment.  Anyhow,
print the page on the dot-matrix printer.  Surprise!  Decent output
(doesn't match a laser printer, but who's got $1000+ for a printer?)!
Done in under 1/2 an hour (I've done pretty much just what you describe
in that amount of time- my 3rd time using the program; it was *easy*)! 
Takes 5 minutes to print the page; argh! But I'll just go grab a sandwich...

My two complaints about Pagesetter:
first, the looonnnggg print time.  Guess that's the way it is when doing
a graphics print to a dot matrix printer.  Second, there's no way to get
different boxes of text/graphics to move as a group (I don't think).  To
explain:  in Pagesetter the results of a graphics edit or an text edit
are placed on the page in a box you create.  You can resize boxes and
move them around (although the size of the text/graphics inside doesn't
change- it gets truncated).  But if you've got three boxes that you like
the relative position of and want to move them as a group, sorry,
Charlie.

Anyhow, I'll take the PageSetter.  Let's face it, I can do 8 pages worth
of stuff and wait for it to print out (a 40 minute ordeal), in less time
than I can pic/tbl/troff it at work.  Desk top publishing is cool!

-mike schwager
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