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From: daves@hpcilzb.HP.COM (Dave Scroggins)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: PageStream comments
Message-ID: <2030154@hpcilzb.HP.COM>
Date: 20 Jan 89 23:01:43 GMT
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/ hpcilzb:comp.sys.amiga / schwager@m.cs.uiuc.edu /  8:59 pm  Jan 17, 1989 /

> 
> Well let's see -- it IS advertised in the Feb. edition of a major
> Amiga magazine as "Shipping Now!".
> 
And last March they said that I could trade in my PageSetter disk + $55
for Publishing Partner Pro (now "PageStream"), but that I had to act
quick cuz the offer ended... what was it, May 1st?  I waited patiently
until last month, cuz they kept sending me little cards that said,
"Thanks for being patient, it's coming RSN!!"  One of 'em came in
November and said, "boy, are you PATIENT!!!" :-)  Just kidding.
Finally, I called 'em in December.  The guy on the phone said, "oh,
well, yeah... see, recently we kinda had a problem with the printer of the
manual, but we'll be shipping FOR SURE in early January."  I said, "Converting
from the Julian to the Soft-Logik calendar, that means it'll be here
around... hmmm.... January 20, right?"  To which the guy says, "Oh, no,
no, no... I'm sure you'll see it the first or second week of January.
No problem."  So I called 'em last week just to double check, and they
said "we're getting rid of some bugs... it'll be mid February."  So I
think  you bought your magazine a little early.

Anyway, the programmer showed me a demo of this thing at Chicago's
AmiExpo.  It really was neat, but I don't know how neat it was compared
to PageSetter Pro, since I don't have that.  You could draw objects,
then move 'em around over and through each other.  Blocks of text, too.
Resizing, rotating, cool stuff like that.
It was faster then regular PageSetter, but still needed work in the
speed department.  The programmer was confident they could get it to
scroll quickly.  

> I also got a couple of comments about demos of this package that basically
> said it was/will be the best Desk Top Publishing for the Amiga ever.
> 
> To quote- "it will be the defininitive desktop publishing system for the
>            AMIGA."

The demo was indeed very impressive.  But what I want to know is: how could
any business person in their right mind start advertising for a product
that's so far from completion?  This is really appalling to me.  I'd
rather work for IBM than conduct myself the way SoftLogik has.  I'm
looking forward to getting the program, though.  It's a good thing I
don't really *need* laser-printer output from my Amiga; if I did, I'd
have gone to PageSetter Pro a long time ago.
-Mike Schwager				schwager@a.cs.uiuc.edu
-- {uunet,convex,pur-ee}!uiucdcs!schwager   schwager%uiuc@csnet-relay.arpa
	University of Illinois, Dept. of Computer Science
P.S. PageSetter and Pagestream are probably trademarks of their
respective corporations.  And I hate lawyers.  Why do regular ol' people
need to put these disclaimers in their notes?  The world keeps getting
sillier and sillier...
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