Path: utzoo!mnetor!frank
From: frank@mnetor.UUCP (Frank Kolnick)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Desktop Publishing on Mac - HELP
Message-ID: <4818@mnetor.UUCP>
Date: 14 Jan 89 05:28:34 GMT
References: <3486@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu>
Reply-To: frank@mnetor.UUCP (Frank Kolnick)
Organization: Computer X (CANADA) Ltd., Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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In article <3486@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu> lgdemichillie@ucdavis.edu (Greg DeMichillie) writes:
>[we no join our regularly scheduled religious discussion of DTP already
>in progress...]
>
>I would also recommend WriteNow 2.0, and PageMaker 3.01.  As for the
>Illustrator/Freehand debate, I've always like FreeHand.  Illustrator's
>handling of type is absolutely brain damaged.  Any given block of text
>must be the same type, style and size!  You want to boldface a single word,
>you've got to create 2 blocks of text and meticulously align them.  No thanks.
>Freehand also allows you to edit in the preview mode unlike Illustrator.
> ...
>Well, that's my 2 cents worth anyway.

I'll see your 2 cents and...

I like the combination of Word and XPress. I find Word fast and logical
(for my own perverted sense of logic, let me hasten to add) for text,
and I use XPress for flexibility (and it's even more logical). In
particular, XPress understands Word very well, including its styles,
and uses many of Word's short-cuts. So the transition is easy and smooth.
I still favour Illustrator although I have a half dozen other drawing
programs, none of which is ideal.  Illustrator is great for real
illustrations, such as circuit boards, PCs, etc. especially if you
need fine detail and even more especially if you want several sizes or views
of the same subject. I'll agree with the statement about it's text
handling, but then I never use its text for anything other than labels.
(Well, ok, for some fancy titles or when I need text in perspective,
I'll use Illustrator with the outline fonts in the Adobe Collection. 
These letters and symbols, etc. can easily be rotated, stretched, shaded,
etc. If I could afford it, I'd look at LetraStudio for this purpose.)
-- 
Frank Kolnick,
consulting for, and therefore expressing opinions independent of, Computer X
UUCP: {allegra, linus}!utzoo!mnetor!frank