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From: david@io.UUCP (David Weinberger x5563)
Newsgroups: comp.text,comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Desktop publishing systems?
Summary: Interleaf, desktop publishing
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Date: 17 Nov 88 14:46:46 GMT
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Organization: Interleaf Inc, Cambridge, MA
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Let me add some information to Robert Scott's message. (I work for Interleaf.)

o TPS on Sun, Digital and Apollo goes for $2,500 for the Core version (text
and graphics.)

o Interleaf Publisher is available on 386's and on the Macintosh II for
$2,495. It is feature-for-feature the same as TPS 3.0. (We've just shipped TPS
4.0.) That means it combines full word processing, diagramming, data-driven
charts, automatic page layout, network workgroup tools, long document
management capabilities, tables and even a line art image editor.

o Interleaf products are "seamlessly integrated," to use Scott's words. That is,
you work on a WYSIWYG view of a document. The system gives you the appropriate
editor depending on where you cursor is -- text editor, diagramming editor,
image editor, etc. To put a diagram into an Interleaf document, you just copy
it, point, and paste -- two menu picks.

o Interleaf imports a wide variety of text and graphic formats, including
WordStar, troff, Scribe, CalComp, HPGL, TIFF, DCA, RTF, MacDraw, MacPaint,
PICT, and lots more.

Admittedly I'm biased. But it's an honest bias, if you know what I mean ... I
like this software a lot.

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David Weinberger                    UUCP: ..!{sun!sunne,mit-eddie}!ileaf!david
Interleaf, Inc.                     Internet: david@ileaf.com
10 Canal Park, Cambridge, MA 02141  Phone: (617)577-9800 x5563