richard@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu (Richard Foulk) (11/26/88)
I've been evaluating WYSIWYG packages for the Sun lately. So far I've looked at Interleaf and FrameMaker. Interleaf has such a horrendous user interface, and FrameMaker is so much more friendly that I was becoming pretty sold on it. But integrating graphics with our text is essential. And the FrameMaker folks blew it royally! FrameMaker has an internal precision of less than 100 dots per inch! So, although it has the tools to edit graphics pretty nicely, and it looks okay on the screen, what they send to the printer can end up looking pretty sad. The tech support person I spoke with on the phone said that it would improve some with the next version (in 6 months or so) but that it still wouldn't be 300 dpi (which it what most laser printers do). Such a nice package otherwise, too bad the developers forgot to plug their brains in before they started. Richard Foulk p.s. Does anyone know anything about a package called Alis?