info-mac@uw-beaver (01/28/85)
From: James N. Greene <jgreene@BBNCCJ.ARPA>
For those of you interested in using the Mac to generate newsletters,
sales brochures, bulletins, etc., read on.
I recently purchased MacPublisher (TM) by Boston Telecomputers. They say
it's the first electronic publishing software for the Mac or Lisa. I'm
quoting the following from the MacPublisher user's guide,
"With MacPublisher, you can design, edit and print
anything you want to produce in multi-column text and
illustrations. It dynamically lays out groups of
articles, pictures, headlines, nameplates, logos,
mastheads, etc., into a multi-column publication. As you
make changes of corrections in an article's length or an
illustration's size, MacPublisher remembers the
relationship of each article and picture to every other."
I've worked with it just a little and it seems to work as advertised. You
can create new articles within MacPublisher using an editor similar to
MacWrite. Changing fonts, styles and sizes is easy and lends itself to
creative experimentation. You can also bring MacPaint pictures into
MacPublisher.
After you have all your articles and pictures in MacPublisher, you can
move them around on a "dummy page". Each article and picture is treated
independently of the other. Lay things out the way you like, then print
the page using the Imagewriter. If it doesn't look right, move them
around a bit and try again.
It has a form of copy protection requiring you to insert the master
diskette once during a session if you are running off a copy. Apple's
disk-to-disk copy won't copy the MacPublisher disk. It stops and says the
disk is copy protected. You can copy all the icons to a new disk by
moving them over. Opening the copied diskette brings about the prompt to
insert the master for a moment. Obviously, there's something missing
from the copy that it needs from the master. Anyone know how to get
around this annoying protecion?
I'll be glad to answer any further questions you may have.
These are my opinions and not those of my employer. I'm
offering this information as an aid to fellow Mac users.
I have have no affiliation with Boston Telcomputers in
any way.
Jim Greene
BBN Communications