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From: grieggs@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (John T. Grieggs)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Timeworks WordWriter 2.0 thesaurus crashes
Message-ID: <3270@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV>
Date: 15 Oct 88 17:45:05 GMT
References: <430@arisia.Xerox.COM> <1276@moscom.UUCP>
Reply-To: grieggs@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (John T. Grieggs)
Organization: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA.
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In article <1276@moscom.UUCP> adp@moscom.UUCP (Alan Percy) writes:
>What I would like to hear about from you folks, is Timeworks Desktop
>publishing software any better?  Even if it have a few bugs, I can live
>with that, but if it is like the beta version of Pro PP, then I'll skip it.

I have been using TDP for over a month now, and am quite happy with it.
So far, nary a bug has surfaced!  The only thing I do not like about it
is the font situation.  There are two problems:  1)  Not enough fonts
available (still no sign of the long-promised font paks), and 2) Not
enough slots to use them even if they were available (only 8 slots are
available).  The reason that 2) is a problem for me despite 1) is that
I have been working on porting over some PD Mac fonts using Fontz!, and
it is a royal pain in the posterior to see how they are doing.  Fontz!
has no mechanism for printing out a whole font, and it sucks to have to
keep modifying your ASSIGN.SYS (not to mention the need to run FONTWID.APP!).
And yes, to those of you who are about to make the comment, I _have_ looked
at G+PLUS, and it reloads ASS*.SYS based on application name only.

>I've been using EasyDraw for a couple years, with some updates.  It has
>some limitations, but is relativly bug-free.  I guess I'm looking for
>advice as to whether Timeworks Desktop Publishing is more useful for
>newsletters and catalogs.  EasyDraw is great for presentation overheads,
>maps, and other technical diagrams, but multi-page newsletters get
>to be a bear.

Timeworks Desktop Publisher is wonderful for newsletters!  Nothing better
out there, certainly.  I have yet to experience a single crash.  The 
features it has are perfectly suited for newsletter editing.  For example,
it lets you flow "stories" across multiple pages.  It uses style sheets,
which let you set up paragraph styles which are easily invoked, but may
be over-ridden locally.  Actually, it has too many features to go into in
the space of a short article.  Bottom line - highly recommended.

_john

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