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From: dnye@bbn.com (David Nye)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Desktop publishing (was "Re: Jerry declares" and so on)
Keywords: DEADLY EMBRACE, Gold DISK, Pro-Page...
Message-ID: <37112@bbn.COM>
Date: 11 Mar 89 17:55:22 GMT
References: <37074@bbn.COM>
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Reply-To: dnye@bbn.com (Dave Nye)
Organization: Bolt Beranek and Newman Inc., Cambridge MA
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>Dave Scroggins writes:
>"...I really do not understand why the AMIGA has not yet been used to do decent
>Desktop Publishing. It seems to me as though the required hardware is there or
>available, but the software to do it is a joke."
	    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
How can anyone in there right mind DECLARE the ALL the Desktop Publishing for
the AMIGA is a JOKE!!!!!?????  Professional Page CAN DO EVERYTHING if no MOST
of the Operations that the best M*C Desktop Pub can do or is thinking of doing.
If I am wrong please state specifics.  But Professional Page is *** N O T *** a
JOKE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!   No offence Dave and Steve but I don't think you 
have looked at the Desktop publishers for the AMIGA hard enuff.

In article <37074@bbn.COM> denbeste@BBN.COM (Steven Den Beste) writes:
>
>Does everyone know what "deadly embrace" is? The world of computer marketing is
>plagued by it. In this case, it goes like this:
>
>Customers don't see the Amiga as a vehicle for Desktop Publishing, since there
>is no good software to do it. Therefore, the big publishers don't think the
>customer base is present to justify development of such a product. Therefore
>the Customers don't see any software, so they don't see the Amiga as a vehicle
>for Desktop...  sigh.
The Software is there just nobody SELLS it, READ PUSHES IT Enuff.
I'd like to see a side by side comparison, side by side on the same table,
doing the same type of publishing.  I am convinced that if a customer saw them
side by side they would go AMIGA.  

ONLY AMIGA can do it for BETTER for LESS!!!!
>
>Steven C. Den Beste,   BBN Communications Corp., Cambridge MA
>denbeste@bbn.com(ARPA/CSNET/UUCP)    harvard!bbn.com!denbeste(UUCP)


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