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From: hammen@csd4.milw.wisc.edu (Robert Joseph Hammen)
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Subject: Re: Suitcase versus Font/DA Juggler
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Date: 28 Jan 88 23:12:15 GMT
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In article <2747@cup.portal.com> Ray_Ray_Davidson@cup.portal.com writes:
>In reply to my question of why more press has been given to Suitcase than 
>Font/DA Juggler, Moriarty (Jeff Meyer) suggests 

>"A more probable reason is that Suitcase was released ~ 6 months before
>Font/DA Juggler."
>
>I'm pretty sure that Suitcase was introduced at the Boston show in August (I 
>know it was the hit of the show) and I think that F/DA J was introduced there
>too. The fellow from ALSoft told me they were introduced at the same time, and
>there is an ad for F/DA J in the September MacUser. Course it could have still
>been vaporous then...

Font/DA Juggler was around during the Boston show. However, it has gone through
at least two versions before its current one. As originally introduced, I
believe that it allowed you to load 'sets' of DAs, not unlimited DAs. I think
that they then released a 2.0 version that added some functionality to the 
product, and then the Font/DA Juggler Plus product that was just announced at
San Francisco. So, it's taken them some time to get the functionality of 
Suitcase. Of course, I heard rumors of a Suitcase 1.2 coming RSN, so the
battle heats up...


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