alex@grian.cps.altadena.ca.us (Alex Pournelle) (02/14/90)
alex@grian.cps.altadena.ca.us (Alex Pournelle) writes: (I often follow up my own messages for fun. Don't you?) >There is a new program, called PostStrip, which showed at the Big Mac >Show in Boston. It'll strip pages in duplex form as you want--IT EVEN >ADJUSTS FOR STAPLE CREEP, which only the most grizzled strip-up artist >will even admit exists (This is the width of paper crowded out by each >successive page as you get nearer the center saddle staples). >Essentially you print-to-disk, then PostStrip eats the pages and puts >'em out appropriately. Including the tedious, error-fraught "one with >seventy-two, two with seventy-one" business that's such a drag. >The only problem is I *still* (for I have not seen the program) need the >companies' address/name/etc that makes it. And my attempts to ask the >net have returned nothing. >So: we know what we want, now if we only knew where to ask! Well, I posted the who & when yesterday, but I just got the how much. $3000. Yipes! Ultimate Professional Publishing Systems obviously believes there's a market, and it's paved with gold... ...They are selling the PC version (& you have to get program-specific ones: Ventura, Pagemaker... ...and there is a discount if you buy more than one) right now, and the Mac version follows "in about two weeks". Frankly, at this price (and, no, I didn't ask if this was CDN or USA pricing--sloppy reporting, I know) I think what they'll do is stimulate some competition, 'n' have to cut their price by an order of magnitude to keep up. Comments? Alex