logden@tc.fluke.COM (Leonard Ogden) (09/16/87)
Testing, Testing, 1 2 3 4.... can you hear me in back? Good! Does anyone know when Berkeley Software plans to ship geoPublish? Is it in any local stores? Man I gotta have this one!! Any Berkeley folks out there? Any close friends of such people? If you haven't heard about this guy, theres an article in Sept/Oct Info, on CES and it covers it on page 73, the article even has a sample. Geos has extended my use of the 64 for several years around here, (I have to fight my wife for the darned thing nowadays!). I know, I'll buy a A500 and let my wife use the 64! Thanks in advance Logden
logden@fluke.UUCP (09/17/87)
I thought that other geos users would be interested in John's reply to my inquiry. So it is reprinted here. John, let me commend you and your company on an excellent program (Geos). GeosWrite has become the wordprocessor of choise around my house! We love the fonts, the detail of the graphics are great on my printer, I even found a way (though somewhat cumbersome), to transfer my digitized pictures to geoPaint, and geoWrite documents. geoPublish is right up my alley! While I have your attention, tell me about the 1764 memory expander. Does it allow me to load desktop, geoWrite, geoPaint,etc into it and then operate as if from a hard disk? Or does it only allow you to do bigger documents all at once instead of running out of memory and having to do muliple doucuments (like a term paper of 10 pages, 5 in each document 'cause of memory constraints?). Thanks for the info and keep up the good work!! Date: Wed, 16 Sep 87 20:48:44 PST From: uw-beaver!ames!ll-xn!ames!ucbcad!cory.BERKELEY.EDU!wedgwood (John C. Wedgwood) Message-Id: <8709170448.AA19956@cory.Berkeley.EDU> To: fluke!logden Subject: Re: geoPublish! Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm In-Reply-To: <1789@sputnik.COM> Organization: University of California, Berkeley Cc: Status: R You are going to love this program. I work at BSW so I think that I have the scoop on publish. It is currently getting ready for the last round of testing. The engineers involved with the project are working extremeley long hours to get this out soon. What we are hoping is that we can get it duplicated and to distributors by the middle of October (no promises here, the program is so complex that it might take longer to debug). It is so good even I have a hard time believing it. It does huge fonts, columns, graphics that can be stretched and smoothed. Multiple pages, lines, connected lines, splines, ellipses, flowing of text around graphics (actually around the bounding rectangle for a graphic), Text in patterns, opaque and transparent graphic objects (so you can put text over a gray background...) The possibilities are endless. (In case you can't tell I love this product). Hope we can get it to you soon. -wedge-