ajw@donk.UUCP (ajw) (02/09/89)
There've been some comments about the status of Pagestream recently, so in case you're interested, here's another user's viewpoint. 1) It's largely a one-man effort as far as the design/programming is concerned, and Soft-Logik still has a lot to learn about being a 'professional' software supplier. The wounds caused by the almost unbelievable ineptitude of their handling of the Publishing Partner Upgrade episode will take some time to lick clean. 2) After about a day's exploration of Pagestream, you'll be able to guarantee that you can crash your machine in three seconds flat while wearing a blindfold in a sensory deprivation tank. 3) After about a week's exploration, you'll have learnt how to avoid the bugs and produce _startling_ documents with a better than 90% success rate. 4) If you want to buy a program which will enable you to complain with every justification about insufficiently tested facilities and poorly organized manuals and badly planned migration paths and so on and so on, then this is the one for you. 5) If you want a desktop publishing package that has more honest commitment behind it than the reduction of the Federal Deficit, that is being fixed and extended and supported with more dedication and passion than the NRA's AK-47 fan-club, and that has the potential of delivering more bang for the buck than most of its competitors put together, then this is the one for you. I have no association with Soft-Logik. I just love to see the hacker ethic bearing real fruit, warts and all. -- Alan Waldock, just offering individual opinions while happening to work at Intel Corp, M/S HF2-37, 5200 NE Elam Young Pkwy, Hillsboro, Oregon 97124-6497 ajw@aus.hf.intel.com ...uunet!littlei!intelhf!aus!ajw "Live malloc or die"