bear@bu-pub.bu.edu (Blair M. Burtan) (02/21/90)
>>>>> On 15 Feb 90 18:26:15 GMT, user_442@dayton.saic.com said: >> Makes me feel REAL good about PageStream and the new version 1.8 of the >> software. Not only was the software less expensive (by at least >> $125.), and could do more, but the upgrade was free !! The tech >> support of Soft Logic (the Makers of Page Stream) is unsurpassed in >> answering questions and finding the solutions to either minor bugs >> that remain or user errors. It really makes the old AMIGA sing when >> it comes to DTP. ;-) Here's a little quirk about Pagestream and text importing. Recently, I used excellence! to create a resume. Then I imported it into Pagestream. Version 1.8 has an excellence! import module. This worked ok, but some things seemed a bit strange. Changing the left and right box borders didn't seem to "de-word-wrap" things. I chalked it up to a bug until I tried to change the top and bottom borders. The text suddenly became elongated as if it were graphics. The solution was to Edit/Copy the text and paste it on a new page and then delete the original. Now, I did save the document in excellence format and not text format. This may be a better solution for long documents. -- --------------------------- Signature Version 1.0 --------------------------- | bear@bu-pub.bu.edu enge05c@buacca.bu.edu | | "There are many perks in being the mother of a living god. | | Nice apartment, car, free parking." | -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
wn0e+@andrew.cmu.edu (William Nichols) (02/22/90)
writes >Here's a little quirk about Pagestream and text importing. Recently, I >used excellence! to create a resume. Then I imported it into Pagestream. >Version 1.8 has an excellence! import module. This worked ok, but some >things seemed a bit strange. Changing the left and right box borders >didn't seem to "de-word-wrap" things. I chalked it up to a bug until I >tried to change the top and bottom borders. The text suddenly became >elongated as if it were graphics. The solution was to Edit/Copy the >text and paste it on a new page and then delete the original. Now, I >did save the document in excellence format and not text format. This >may be a better solution for long documents. Actually, there is no quirk here at all. This is what happens if one just positions the text cursor on the screen and imports a text document. I.e. the text is read in as a TEXT OBJEXT, just as if you had typed it in instead of importing. Because of the problem with resizing the text box, and the funny wrapping, I do not recomend this procedure. The correct way to do the import is to first create a TEXT COLUMN, position the cursor within the column, then import the text.(in excellence! format is fine) Bill Nichols Nichols@cmphys.bitnet william.nichols@andrew.cmu.edu PageStream 1.8 really makes my deskjet sing.