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From: baumgart@esquire.dpw.com (Steve Baumgarten)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Pagemaker 4.0 Features missing
Keywords: Pagemaker
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Date: 1 Mar 90 00:53:44 GMT
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In-reply-to: jimvons@ashtate (Jim von Schmacht)

In article <825@ashton.UUCP>, jimvons@ashtate (Jim von Schmacht) writes:
>In article <1990Feb23.000751.5210@grian.cps.altadena.ca.us> alex@grian.cps.altadena.ca.us (Alex Pournelle) writes:
>>You left out the one most needed, most easily added--multiple documents
>>open.  I, too, cannot believe this is NOT in 4.0.
>
>When was the last time YOU programmed memory intensive applications?
>You obviously have a somewhat simplistic view of problems faced by
>Mac programmers...
>
>-- 
>Jim von Schmacht  Senior Member, Project Test Staff   Ashton Tate Corporation

Sad to hear this coming from a software professional (or at least from
a senior member of Ashton Tate's Project Test Staff).

What does allowing multiple documents to be open have to do with
memory-intensive applications?  PageMaker isn't PixelPaint, you know.
And how did LetraSet manage to add multiple document/multiple
window support to ReadySetGo and DesignStudio?

In fact, it's hard to think of *any* Mac applications, other than
PageMaker and the original MacWrite that don't allow you to work on
multiple documents at once.

Hell, even the original MacDraw allowed it -- and in 128K!  If that
isn't "memory-intensive", I don't know what is.

Wait, I *do* know.  Your very own FullWrite!  The application that
practically defines the term "memory-intensive".  And yet it somehow
manages to support multiple documents.

Alex was right; Aldus should have added multiple document support long
ago.  It's a shame they've spent so much time on frills when their
program has been missing one of the basic parts of a good user
interface for so long.

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