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From: cramer@optilink.UUCP (Clayton Cramer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Microsoft Pageview V1.0
Message-ID: <1963@optilink.UUCP>
Date: 9 Mar 88 21:33:53 GMT
Organization: Optilink Corporation, Petaluma, CA
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We've received our copy of Microsoft Pageview V1.0 -- and it's a little
disappointing.

It doesn't actually support all the PostScript fonts -- if you attempt to
display a document that uses the Zapf or Symbol font families, you get
what looks like Courier on the screen.  Even worse, it doesn't know 
about style sheets -- in the absence of explicit formatting, you get
Courier.

I would expect this sort of thing if the publisher of Pageview were an 
outside company that didn't have access to the proprietary Word format --
I would even be pretty tolerant if style sheets were a pretty new
addition to Word.

Word doesn't make that much sense for real document production unless
you use style sheets -- and Pageview doesn't support styles!

Oh well, at least it was cheap.

Clayton E. Cramer