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From: steve@violet.berkeley.edu (Steve Goldfield)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: WYSIWYG
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Date: 19 Oct 88 16:11:17 GMT
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I've had some bad experiences with PageMaker not printing
what it shows on the screen. Two examples: (1) I tried to
draw jagged lines with bullets at the nodes. The bullets
were significantly moved in the printout and nowhere near
the lines. (2) I moved a flow chart from MacFlow into PageMaker
to scale down its size and one corner of a box refused to
print. When I phoned Aldus about this, they admitted it was
a problem and claimed it was not possible to fix. My fix
in the second case was to copy the document into MacDraw, from
which everything printed fine.

This raises a few questions. First, is Aldus right? Is it
inherently impossible to have a WYSIWYG program on the Mac
as the Next reportedly has? Could someone implement a
PostScript version of PageMaker? Second, having had the
painful experience of moving a page through three of more
kinds of software to get everything I wanted into it, it
seems there would be a good market for an integrated piece
of software which would be both convenient to use and offer
combined features. If something like that exists, I'd like to
know. If not, maybe someone would like to make their fortune
by writing it.

Steve Goldfield