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From: covertr@force.UUCP (Richard E. Covert)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: TeX and DVISLM; PageStream 1.8; LHARC
Summary: PageStream 1.8
Message-ID: <488af34b.14a1f@force.UUCP>
Date: 9 Feb 90 16:02:45 GMT
References: <9002071552.AA10408@SAIC.COM>
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In article <9002071552.AA10408@SAIC.COM>, steveg@SAIC.COM (Stephen Harold Goldstein) writes:
> to R. Covert, re: PageStream 1.8:
> 
> Kudos for PageStream from our resident critic? :-) 
> I agree it's a powerful package, but it's still not bug free.  As I
> mentioned a while back, it does a pretty poor job of cleaning up after
> itself on the screen (even with an apparent 're-draw it all' attitude)
> - I'm constantly getting object 'handles' left all over the place.
> Also, UNDO does not work for all operations and you don't know what is
> not UNDOable till it's too late.  It's getting better though.
> ---
> Stephen Goldstein     steveg@saic.com

Stephen, while I have noticed the same problems in PgS 1.8,I am nonethelss
very pleased with PgS 1.8. For example, I have owned 2 laser printers in the last
2 years, the SLM804, and now the Panasonic KXP4450 Laser Partner. One thing that
I enjoyed doing with my old dot matrix printer was printing out labels for 
floppies. I used an old program called "ACTION" (circa 1986!!) with my previous
dot matrix printer. But when I got my first laser printer I couldn't use it
it any longer. Finally, AVERY has come out with a aser printer label for 3.5"
floppies. There are 9 labels for 8.5"x11" page, each label being 2.75" square.

Well, I sat down with PgS 1.8, and in a couple of hours learning made some forms
for the AVERY labels. Andd they printed great!! I was even able to rotate the text 180
degrees to place on the spine and the back of the floppy. I made a bunch of labels
for some pd disks for the PHAST Club withg PgS 1.8.

so, while PgS 1.8 may still have some bugs, it works very well for me,
and I was able to learn to use some of its neat features very quickly.

Calamus, on the other hand, is still sitting on my shelf. I have yet to
understand how to use its text editor, and its icons are very confusing.

So, I like PgS 1.8, and I even wrote a letter to Softlogik congratulating them
on the 1.8 release.



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