Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!asuvax!ncar!boulder!seri!wind55!marshall From: marshall@wind55.seri.gov (Marshall L. Buhl) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: window386 && their WORD Message-ID: <1990Mar8.192350.12427@seri.gov> Date: 8 Mar 90 19:23:50 GMT References: <754@eedsp.eedsp.gatech.edu> <1779@uklirb.informatik.uni-kl.de> <542@cpqhou.UUCP> <2113@milton.acs.washington.edu> <100289@linus.UUCP> <7042@tekgvs.LABS.TEK.COM> Sender: news@seri.gov (news [NO CHARGE]) Organization: Solar Energy Research Institute Lines: 40 I was a beta tester for WinWord. I now own it, but don't use it. I've gone back to using PC Word 5.0. Like other posters, I'm fed up with all the "out of memory" messages. What good is WYSIWYG if you don't have enough memory to display the fonts. When in WYSIWYG mode, the fonts are difficult to read. I've tried it in EGA, VGA and Super VGA. I guess for decent WYSIWYG, you need a 2K by 2K screen. I just got a new VGA card that supports 1024x768 and will try it with WinWord. I don't think it will help though. All the higher res- olutions buy for you is a larger screen - they don't use more pixels to draw the fonts. That's what it really needs. The printer support sucks. That's because it's Windows that does it. It doesn't support the full resolution of Epson LQ printers. It requires one to download fonts to the LaserJet EVERY TIME YOU PRINT. It's as bad as WordImperfect. At least with PC Word, I can modify the Epson driver to add the double density support. With Windows, I can't. With PC Word, the user is asked if (s)he wants to download newly added fonts, all fonts or no fonts when (s)he goes to print. Much better. A Microsoft support person told me that they put more effort into PC Word drivers than Windows drivers. It's SLOW. I have a 386/25 and it takes forever to do anything. Granted, I have only 4 MB RAM and an ESDI drive, but still... 8-) To be honest, it is a very impressive program - it just barely misses the mark. I think future versions of it and Windows will win me back. Every- one I've showed it to was very impressed - that even includes WordImperfect users. The basic program is great - it's the details that let you down. I hope to upgrade to a 486/33 by the end of the year and will give it another try. Maybe it won't be so painfully slow on it. I've used and support PC Word, WinWord and WordImperfect. I'll take PC Word over the others any day. -- Marshall L. Buhl, Jr. EMAIL: marshall@wind55.seri.gov Senior Computer Engineer VOICE: (303)231-1014 Wind Research Branch 1617 Cole Blvd., Golden, CO 80401-3393 Solar Energy Research Institute Solar - safe energy for a healthy future