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From: sysop@stech.UUCP (Jan Harrington)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Interleaf Publisher
Message-ID: <701@stech.UUCP>
Date: 2 Feb 89 12:24:04 GMT
Organization: Scholastech, Inc., Waltham, Mass.
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About three weeks ago I bit the bullet and purchased Interleaf. I had had it
with FullWrite's bugs, and needed a product that had the same types of
capabilities.

While not perfect, Interleaf is proving to be well worth its price. First, it
is relatively bug free. I did encounter a printing bug, but the tech support
people sent me a patch that fixed it (the technical support has been
SUPERLATIVE).

The screen refresh is almost instantaneous. There are none of FW's performance
slowdowns, even with very large, very heavily formatted documents. The
only thing Interleaf won't do when it comes to formatting is handle mirrored
layouts (I'd like that, but I can live without it, believe me).

Interleaf also does something special when it comes to printing. It shoots
out scaled bit maps faster than anything I've ever seen. No 20 minutes waits
for a page to print - my old LaserWriter prints as fast as it can (3 minutes
max for scaled bit maps; text prints at the LW's maximum).

Though the product isn't very "Mac-like" (it's a clear port from the Sun
and Apollo workstations), you quickly get used to making menus pop up all over
the screen by pressing the command key and the mouse button. I had to use
FW to type a letter this morning, and discovered that I had already fallen into
Interleaf habits (reaching for F8 for italics rather than command-I, for
example).

This product does exactly what it should - it handles the entry of text
graphics, and formatting for long documents. No major bugs, excellent
performance. Worth the price? If, like me, you write books and do your own
layout and you have the hardware (a 5 meg Mac II), probably so.

And that's one woman's opinion...
 
Jan Harrington, sysop
Scholastech Telecommunications
UUCP: husc6!amcad!stech!sysop or allegra!stech!sysop
BITNET: JHARRY@BENTLEY

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