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From: straka@ihlpf.ATT.COM (Straka)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Word Processing.  Why the silence?
Keywords: Best, Worst, Reviews, etc...
Message-ID: <6603@ihlpf.ATT.COM>
Date: 10 Nov 88 14:17:05 GMT
References: <1988Nov4.221606.20356@gpu.utcs.toronto.edu> <68257@felix.UUCP>
Reply-To: straka@ihlpf.UUCP (55223-Straka,R.J.)
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories - Naperville, Illinois
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In article <68257@felix.UUCP| kehr@felix.UUCP (Shirley Kehr) writes:
|In article <1988Nov4.221606.20356@gpu.utcs.toronto.edu| heath@gpu.utcs.toronto.edu (Todd Heatherton) writes:
||I read with interest the discussion that centered around the different
||properites of FullWrite, Word 3.0x and WordPerfect.  There appeared to
|Well, you gave me the perfect forum for something I was going to post 
|
|"As of Version 5.0 and its subsequent enhancement, which fixed some initial
|bugs, WordPerfect is now the most powerful, configurable, and multitalented
|word processing program ever to appear on any class of computer system.
|And there are no gadgets to avoid: we've been offered instead a powerhouse
|program that
|     * imports graphics and handles fonts better than any other program
|       of its type;"...etc.
|
|The author goes on to describe this marvelous graphics handling that lets you
|move, scale, rotate, and invert the graphic and define various box types. Of
|course you don't get to see the actual graphic during normal text editing.
|There is a placeholding rectangle.

A colleague where I work asked me to drop him a MacPaint file for him to
import into a (PC) WordPerfect file.  I did so, and while he could view the
MacPaint file with some sort of "PC MacPaint Viewer program", WordPerfect
would not recognize it, and the file conversion utility that WordPerfect
supplies would choke on it and hang the system.  He called WordPerfect
support, and after he sent them a disk with the appropriate files, they said
that he's right (it doesn't work, although other versions of the program read
MacPaint files OK, or something like that), and that they are looking into it.
Likewise with some other PC programs, even.  They even implied that maybe the
MacPaint file format has changed! :-)

So much for PC WordPerfect and its graphics capabilities.

I keep telling my friend here that he should have bought a Mac, and he keeps
explaining how expensive a Mac is.  He needs to look at how much his time is
worth to him.
-- 
Rich Straka     att!ihlpf!straka

Avoid BrainDamage: MSDOS - just say no!