STEIN@UCONNVM.BITNET (03/08/88)
I tried checking out Publish It!, which surprisingly did not seem too bad until I tried putting a fairly substantial article into a newsletter and got a message that it couldn't all be loaded. It seems like it only uses 35K ram for its documents. Am I missing something? ARPA: stein%uconnvm.bitnet@mitvma.mit.edu Alan H. Stein BITNET: STEIN@UCONNVM University of Connecticut UUCP: ...ihnp4!psuvax1!UCONNVM.BITNET!STEIN at Waterbury CompuServe: 71545,1500 Genie: ah.stein Department of Mathematics
STEIN@UCONNVM.BITNET (03/11/88)
I had some difficulty trying to send this directly to Joe Beland, so I'm posting it on Info-Apple. I used Publish It! on a IIGS to check it out. I found it a bit slow, but not too bad for some tasks. I tried importing some files from Appleworks to put together a short newsletter. The importing wasn't bad, although it is somewhat unfriendly. You have to name the directory before you select import and you also have to have the program disk in at all times -- a real pain. The documentation says that the main program file -- dtp.main -- should be copied onto every disk, but that didn't work. I have one 3 1/2" drive to go with two 5 1/4" drives. I also had my Appleworks files on a 3 1/2" drive. In order to import those files, I had the choice of copying them onto the Publish It! program disk in advance, or else copying Publish It! to my ram disk in advance and running from ram. Also, the program seems to use only 30K for its newsletter, which meant that a two page newsletter pushed it to capacity. Perhaps they have some way of getting around the 30K business that I missed, but if not, it's a real limitation. I also tried running it with the GS at its slow speed to see how it would be on a IIe. It got annoyingly slow. The output was surprisingly good. Hopefully, they'll speed it up a little bit. It seems like an option for infrequent use, but I wouldn't want to put out newsletters with it on a regular basis. ARPA: stein%uconnvm.bitnet@mitvma.mit.edu Alan H. Stein BITNET: STEIN@UCONNVM University of Connecticut UUCP: ...ihnp4!psuvax1!UCONNVM.BITNET!STEIN at Waterbury CompuServe: 71545,1500 Genie: ah.stein Department of Mathematics