bcacciol@encore.com (Blaise M Cacciola) (02/26/91)
I wonder if you can help me, netters...
Has anyone out there used the WYSIWYG word processing package
Ami Professional (which operates under MS Windows)?
Can you please compare this package to other popular products
like MS Word and Wordperfect? (and if you can compare it to
other tools like PageMaker, Ventura Publisher, FrameMaker [a
UNIX product], I'd be grateful.
So far, I've read Lotus/Samna's ad copy and a review or two in
PC Magazine/PC World...but I'm wondering about real-world use.
Please post or email. Sorry if this thread has already been
extensively discussed.
Blaise Cacciola
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{uunet,sun,pur-ee}!gould!bcacciolarowland@hpavla.avo.hp.com (Fred Rowland) (02/27/91)
I've tried both Word for Windows and Ami Pro, and definitely prefer Ami Pro. Unfortunately, I'm now designing some windows 3 Help screens and Ami Pro lacks one essential feature for that job (it doesn't permit the use of arbitrary letters or numbers as footnote references). Given my druthers, I would use Ami Pro. It's easy to use, much more intuitive than W4W, and comes with real manuals. Word for Windows, on the other hand, seems overdesigned to me. It has far too many different ways to accomplish the same thing. And it keeps interfering with your work because of a mistaken idea of being helpful. The manual supplied with it is an alphabetical reference, not a task-oriented user guide. And the manual assumes a pre-Windows 3 environment so many things do not work if you have the latest MicroSoft setup. As you've probably gathered, I do not care for W4W but I'm forced to use it. Fred Rowland
ries@venice.SEDD.TRW.COM (Marc Ries) (03/02/91)
In article <10790002@hpavla.avo.hp.com> rowland@hpavla.avo.hp.com (Fred Rowland) writes: > >I've tried both Word for Windows and Ami Pro, and definitely prefer Ami Pro. My opinions, your mileage may vary: I have used AMI Pro for over a year. My main work has been involved with desktop-type publishing of a newsletter. In general, I like AMI Pro. I have W4W on order (Via a $99 offer) and will be interested in the new Wordperfect for Windows due out in the next few months ($129 upgrade from WP/DOS). In general, I have found AMI Pro to be best for short publications. The one long document I worked on (about 40 pages with graphics/tables, etc) was a real (performance) dog to work on. Legacy sounds interesting, because some of the features in Legacy are features I would like to see in AMI Pro. I would especially like to have: * Support for non-rectangular frames * The ability to link frames so that text flows from one to the other * Support for user-defined "pages". If your document is not based on an fixed page size (8.5x11, etc.), the index and table of contents support is pretty useless. For example, my work is done on a legal size sheet, folded in half, printed both sides, 2 "pages" per side. There is no support for this type of non-standard page layout.