Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!bloom-beacon!mit-eddie!bbn!rochester!udel!mmdf From: daveh%cbmvax.uucp%UDEL.EDU@cunyvm.cuny.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Publishing Partner Professional/ Professional Page Message-ID: <4501@louie.udel.EDU> Date: 4 Oct 88 05:21:13 GMT Sender: mmdf@udel.EDU Lines: 73 Received: from CUNYVM by CUNYVM.BITNET (Mailer X2.00) with BSMTP id 7210; Tue, 04 Oct 88 01:11:39 EDT Received: from UDEL.EDU by CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU (IBM VM SMTP R1.1) with TCP; Tue, 04 Oct 88 01:11:34 EDT Received: from Louie.UDEL.EDU by Louie.UDEL.EDU id as10567; 3 Oct 88 18:19 EDT Received: from USENET by Louie.UDEL.EDU id aa10516; 3 Oct 88 18:02 EDT From: daveh%cbmvax.uucp@UDEL.EDU Subject: Re: Publishing Partner Professional/ Professional Page Message-ID: <4399@louie.udel.EDU> Date: 3 Oct 88 22:02:32 GMT To: amiga-relay@UDEL.EDU Sender: amiga-relay-request@UDEL.EDU Received: from CUNYVM by CUNYVM.BITNET (Mailer X2.00) with BSMTP id 7529; Sat, 01 Oct 88 00:09:03 EDT Received: from UDEL.EDU by CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU (IBM VM SMTP R1.1) with TCP; Sat, 01 Oct 88 00:08:59 EDT Received: from Louie.UDEL.EDU by Louie.UDEL.EDU id aa17280; 30 Sep 88 20:37 EDT Received: by Louie.UDEL.EDU id aa17131; 30 Sep 88 20:25 EDT Received: from USENET by Louie.UDEL.EDU id aa16690; 30 Sep 88 20:10 EDT From: Dave Haynie Subject: Re: Publishing Partner Professional/ Professional Page Message-ID: <4904@cbmvax.UUCP> Date: 30 Sep 88 19:05:18 GMT Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA To: amiga-relay@UDEL.EDU Sender: amiga-relay-request@UDEL.EDU in article <4886@cbmvax.UUCP>, daveb@cbmvax.UUCP (Dave Berezowski) says: > Keywords: Release date set > In article <1926@vu-vlsi.Villanova.EDU> cheung@vu-vlsi.Villanova.EDU (Wilson Cheung) writes: >>pressure from the Atari community. Therefore, I have decided to snatch up >>Gold Disks offer. ... > While I think that Gold Disk's Professional Page V1.1 is an > excellant produce I must point out one inaccuracy in your above statement. > The current dot matrix output from PP V1.1 does not match the PROPOSED > (important word here) output from Publising Partner due to the different > ways both programs get their data to the printer. If you need high power DTP today, or color DTP in the near future, and you have access to a Postscript printer, PP V1.1 is what you want. In fact, I just took advantage of the upgrade offer myself, having this nice Eicon Postscript printer sitting right next door. However, PP V1.1 isn't all that great for dot matrix printers, and it doesn't pretend to be. ProPage uses an internal working resolution, since obviously you need something for screen display. Appropriate Amiga fonts are used to simulate as closely as possible on your screen display what you'll get on output to the Postscript printer. Output to dot matrix printers through Preferences drivers works much the same way. Publishing Partner (they both come out "PP", don't they...) uses a different approach. It uses it's own custom outline fonts, for display (I think) and for output to dot matrix printers. That's exactly what Postscript engines do. As long as Publishing Partner knows the resolution of your output device, it can scale it's outline fonts accordingly, and thus give your the best possible output for that specific printer. To date, at least, Publishing Partner doesn't support color. So for dot matrix printing "tomorrow", Publishing Partner is a win. But you will have to wait. For Postscript in color, or today, ProPage wins. For monochrome output in Postscript, I expect either will work just fine. ProPage has a very nice on screen display and decent user interface. From what I've seen of the Amiga version of Publishing Partner, it's got a somewhat better user interface, and somewhat weaker screen display. All subjective, of course. -- Dave Haynie "The 32 Bit Guy" Commodore-Amiga "The Crew That Never Rests" {ihnp4|uunet|rutgers}!cbmvax!daveh PLINK: D-DAVE H BIX: hazy "I can't relax, 'cause I'm a Boinger!"