bruce@ektools.UUCP (Bruce D. Nelson ) (01/07/87)
My long awaited copy of Publishing Partner arrived just a few short
hours ago. I wanted to let the net know my very first impressions of
the package.
First, I'd like to thank Soft Logik for shipping early copies to my dealer
in shrink wrap rather than the boxes they're waiting for. The package
included two disks - one for monochrome systems and one for color. I ran
only the mono version.
Since I had seen laser output from the package brought back from the shows, I
could hardly wait to see the results on my SG-10. And I was suitably
impressed! Each line of graphics output is overwritten 3 times (a la
Imagewriter) and makes a very acceptable printout.
I had very little difficulty creating a newsletter with the package. It is
rather similar to MacWrite which I've used a couple of times.
Based on the first couple of hours, I think the package is exactly what I had
hoped for.
By the way, in this version, they DON'T use GDOS (surprise!). It's mentioned
in the manual, but because of the timing of GDOS, they went ahead and wrote
their own graphics output. (The demo even had a picture "pasted" in).
It supports postscript printers and Epson-types (Gemini, etc.).
After I gain a bit more experience, I'll post more detail
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Bruce D. Nelson, Sr. Appl. Analyst: Software Maintenance, Product Line Systems
EASTMAN KODAK COMPANY, 901 Elmgrove Rd., Rochester, NY 14650, 716 726-7890
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