eric@ists.ists.ca (Eric M. Carroll) (03/13/90)
ISTS is looking at buying some hardware and software for inhouse production of our newsletter, WAVES. WAVES has a mailing list of some 5,000 people throughout the Canadian government and international space science community. ISTS has a significant Sun investment, and if possible would like to purchase software that would be compatible with a Sun network. We would also like to share the software we purchase with many groups within ISTS. Thus some approach like X windows seems best for sharing the software resource. Currently, our communications manager uses PageMaker on a PC as the prime page layout program. This, of course, is a closed resource that cannot be shared within the Institute. Her list of current sofware for production use includes PageMaker, Windows, Microsoft Chart, Corel Draw, Arts and Letters Editor, Arts and Letters Space Clip Art and Presentation Pak. She also has a PC facility at home to utilize these tools. My question to the net is thus: Can anyone suggest a set of packages that would allow her home use (say via dialup, SL/IP, a SL/IP X windows terminal, dialup PC X windows, whatever) plus provide a similar level of functionality as provided in the package list above, and make it usable across a Unix or X windows network? Programs that interoperate with PageMaker in a robust way would be acceptible. Colour postscript would be a desired, but not necessary, feature. If you have a list for X windows or SunView internal network use only, that would still be of great interest. Currently, we have looked at Publisher, Frame and Interleaf. We have started thinking to ourselves about Artisan. I just heard in comp.text.desktop about QuarkXpress, but don't know anything about it. Is the Sun marketplace mature enough to support this kind of production work yet? Please reply to me. I will summarize any lists sent to me. Thanks.