chuq%plaid@Sun.COM (Chuq Von Rospach) (05/01/87)
From: Franklin Davis <davis@wanginst.edu> Posted-Date: Wed, 29 Apr 87 11:57:11 edt We're looking into these programs. I've seen the reviews in MacWorld, but I'd love to see user's opinions. --Franklin ---------------------------- Submissions to: desktop%plaid@sun.com Administrivia to: desktop-request%plaid@sun.com Chuq Von Rospach chuq@sun.COM [I don't read flames] There is no statute of limitations on stupidity
chuq%plaid@Sun.COM (Chuq Von Rospach) (05/01/87)
> We're looking into these programs. I've seen the reviews in MacWorld, but > I'd love to see user's opinions. I've been using RSG3 heavily on a number of projects since it came out. In general, I'm happy with it. My major project is a 24-30 page/month newsletter and it holds up pretty well. My version (November 1986) has some definite bugs: I can't get Postscript blocks to work at all, and I have text blocks that will crash after complex editing sequences. There is supposedly a later, December release that fixes Postscript and may help with the textedit bugs, but I've been unable to get through the 800 number to convince them to send me a copy. Note that I do all of my Illo work with manual pasteup, so I don't do anything with bitmaps, and little graphic work. On a laserwriter, it supports the standard Mac patterns (which look TERRIBLE on a LW, by the way) and not gray boxes -- which I can't do in Postscript because Postscript doesn't work. Oh, well. Would I recommend people buy RSG3? Yes, with reservations. I've heard rumors of an upcoming release to fix the bugs in 3.0, and until I can see working Postscript blocks I can't recommend this to folks. Although PageMaker currently doesn't have PS blocks at all if I remember correctly, so I guess that non-working ones are better than nothing. RSG does what I want it to do, well enough that I rarely fight with the program. If I can get these two problems worked around, and when Letraset gets it to read Word 3.0 files, I'll be completely happy again. Until then, if you don't need PS and remember to save your work fairly often, you're in good shape. I haven't worked with Pagemaker, but it looks like RSG3 completely blows away PM1.2, and may be a better program than PM2.0, which isn't shipping yet. I WILL definitely steer people away from MacPublisher II and MP III. They are slow, buggy, expensive and don't have nearly the functionality of either RSG or PM. Not a bad program standing by itself, it isn't competitive in the DTP marketplace. chuq ---------------------------- Submissions to: desktop%plaid@sun.com Administrivia to: desktop-request%plaid@sun.com Chuq Von Rospach chuq@sun.COM [I don't read flames] There is no statute of limitations on stupidity
chuq%plaid@Sun.COM (Chuq Von Rospach) (05/04/87)
Date: Fri 1 May 87 22:15:41-ADT From: Peter Gergely <GERGELY@DREA-XX.ARPA> Postal-Address: 9 Grove St., P.O. Box 1012, Dartmouth, NS B2Y 3Z7, Canada Phone-Number: (902) 426-3100 x 215 [8:30am to 4:15pm Atlantic time] I have the December release of RSG3. Postscript is definitely fixed. I got through to tech support at Letraset, USA, was told to use the Canadian number the next time. It is best not to use the toll free, but the real number. I was informed by the techie that Word 3.0 support by RSG would be in the next major? upgrade, and we would have to pay for it. Great fun!. - Peter ---------------------------------------------- Submissions to: desktop%plaid@sun.com Administrivia to: desktop-request%plaid@sun.com Chuq Von Rospach chuq@sun.COM [I don't read flames] There is no statute of limitations on stupidity