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From: cthulhu@athena.mit.edu (Jim Reich)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Desktop publishing
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Date: 13 Mar 89 21:52:31 GMT
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In article <10923@well.UUCP> ewhac@well.UUCP (Leo 'Bols Ewhac' Schwab) writes:
>In article <794@zehntel.UUCP> donw@zehntel.UUCP (Don White) writes:
>>In article <10901@well.UUCP> ewhac@well.UUCP (Leo 'Bols Ewhac' Schwab) writes:
>>>	Notice that I didn't put Desktop publishing or Desktop video or
>>>Games up there.  You want Desktop publishing?  You go to Apple.  [ ... ]
>>
>>       Leo, don't we have a solid base of desktop publishing programs 
>>  available now?  [ ... ]
>
>	Not as far as I'm concerned.  We may have a few neat parlor tricks,
>but the Mac is already entrenched.  The Mac was a paper-generator since Day
>One.  As such, the desktop publishing technology and software is more mature
>on the Mac.

As far as traditional desktop publishing, you may be right, especially with all
the talk about pagestream's *minor* bugginess.  But we DO have AmigaTeX, which
is, as far as I can tell, the best implementation of TeX I have ever seen on
any computer.  For most purposes, LaTeX produces better results than anything
on the mac, and for desktop publishing purposes, a good TeX macro package
should beat anything out there for sheer power.

In addition, the AmigaTeX printer drivers on my 18pin OKI292 gives output
which is, when photocopied on a good machine, virtually indistinguishable from
Laser output, and at decent speeds, too.

						-- Jim